Associate Professor Keren Lasker, the Ian Wilson Endowed Chair at Scripps Research, has been selected to receive a 2026 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to develop a new approach to capture and destroy toxins before they cause widespread damage. The award provides $642,000 over the first two years of the project, with potential for an additional $500,000 in year three, for over $1 million in total support.

University of Missouri researchers are advancing a promising new approach to treating a serious heart condition that affects millions of older adults worldwide.

A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) proposed a new Reasoning-Empowered Task-Oriented Communication (TOC) framework that enables AI agents to determine what information to share, when communication is necessary, and why a communicate should occur. The research could pave the way for collective intelligence in future 7G wireless networks.

A Harvard team composed of engineers and designers have developed a framework for controlling where crumples form on inflatable membranes and exploit them to achieve reconfigurability.

Doctors use samples of white blood cells taken in clinical settings in lab tests about immune function and for emerging therapies like CAR T cell for certain cancers. But, current tests are limited in scope and sometimes require the addition of molecular labels that make the samples unsuitable for further use or analysis. Investigators at the Morgridge Institute for Research have developed a method of using optical metabolic imaging to identify immune cells and their metabolic state without destroying the samples. The group is working to commercialize this technology and help clinicians get the most out of these commonly used blood samples.

For decades, the mathematical backbone of high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning has rested on a Gaussian assumption that rarely holds in the real world.