Kyoto, Japan -- You may not know what roll waves are, but you've probably seen them on a rainy day. When it rains, these traveling waves appear on steep asphalt pavements, slowly making their way down the slope. Because roll waves propagate without deforming and are typically characterized by abrupt discontinuities, they play an important role in hydraulic engineering. Understanding unsteady flows like roll waves is crucial for the design, management, and safety of hydraulic structures such as dam spillway chutes.

However, despite one accurate line of research developed by mathematicians, the partial differential equations governing roll waves have remained a niche and "astonishingly" under-explored area of research, according to an international team of scientists at Kyoto University and German Jordanian University. This group realized that a rigorous mathematical investigation was not only compelling, but unavoidable.

"We noticed the striking gap between the mathematical and visual beauty of roll‑wave phenomena, and the civil engineering community's persistently superficial understanding of them," says first author Koichi Unami. "It became difficult to ignore how confidently steady‑state assumptions were repeated despite clear evidence to the contrary."

University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor Graeme Clark AC – whose breakthroughs have brought the gift of hearing to over 650,000 people globally – has been jointly awarded the 2026 Honda Prize.

The Prize has been awarded jointly to surgeon and scientist Professor Clark and Austrian electrical engineer Dr Ingeborg Hochmair. Working independently, both spearheaded the research and development, clinical application and worldwide adoption of the multichannel cochlear implant, commonly known as the bionic ear.

UVA’s Yu Meng wins NSF CAREER Award to help AI learn from messy, incomplete data — for better results in everything from accurate hospital records to scientific discovery.

While the roles of parents in a child's education are well-studied, new research is taking a look at the role a sibling plays in collaborating on educational projects, and they found a few key roles often developed in this working relationship

What makes more sense when farming wheat – strips of wildflowers along fields or organic farming? Both options provide financial support via the European Union as environmentally friendly and sustainable farming practices. An international research team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, has now compared the ecological and economic benefits of these two farming methods in fields planted with winter wheat. They found that both measures increased biodiversity by 20 to 30 percent compared to conventionally farmed wheat fields. From an economic perspective, the organic fields were the most profitable. Although yields were only half as high as those of conventionally farmed wheat, profits were one and a half times higher. The results were published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes can reduce the time physicians spend documenting patient visits by 69.1% during simulated primary care appointments, according to research led by University of Toronto PhD student LaShawn Murray. 

The study — published in the journal JAMIA Open, and co-authored with University of Toronto professor Enid Montague and Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya of Women’s College Hospital — involved nine physicians completing simulated patient encounters both with and without the use of AI scribes. These digital tools are capable of recording audio and using it to generate structured, regulatory-compliant clinical notes for a patient’s medical chart — the record physicians use to document their care. 

The researchers used video recordings of each appointment to analyze how physicians spent their time. They found that when the scribes were in use, the doctors spent significantly less time documenting. 

A team of NJIT researchers will map the infrastructure needed to support battery management across the state and region, identifying existing facilities and potential locations for battery collection, storage, dismantling, repurposing and recycling — and showing where New Jersey has the biggest gaps.