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19-Aug-2026

Next-gen mRNA therapeutics get a new delivery vehicle

Nagoya University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan in collaboration with FUJIFILM have developed a novel way of delivering circular RNA (cirRNA) into cells, paving way for longer-lasting mRNA-based therapeutics including cancer vaccines and GLP-1 obesity treatments.

Journal: Cell Biomaterials
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI, Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)

19-Aug-2026

Research confirms tropical regions as historic methane source

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis of ice cores collected from the Andes in Peru has produced the first global record of historical tropical methane, filling a critical gap in our understanding of the origins of Earth’s greenhouse gases.

Journal: Nature

19-Aug-2026

Mount Sinai scientists reveal how the brain represents leader and follower roles and build an AI that reads the hidden goals behind teamwork

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

study examined how social roles emerge and remain stable, how the prefrontal cortex represents leading, following, and a partner's position, and what happens to teamwork when that region is switched off. A companion AI model inferred the values guiding each animal's choices

Journal: Nature

19-Aug-2026

Buildings that cool like African elephants

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Inspired by the cracked, water-retaining skin of African elephants, architect Dorit Aviv and materials scientist Shu Yang have designed a cement-based tile that captures and slowly evaporates water, lowering surface temperatures without air conditioning.

Journal: Advanced Materials

19-Aug-2026

Securing wireless communication in next-generation devices

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT researchers developed a way to generate correlated microwave signals at room temperature using magnets. This advance could enable secure wireless communications and more accurate sensors and radars, and spur the development of practical quantum simulators, without the need for cryogenically cooled superconducting circuits.

Journal: Nature Electronics
Funder: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy

19-Aug-2026

Simple diet changes help microbes produce higher-quality biomaterials

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Feeding bacteria a cheap agricultural by-product enables the production of high-value biomaterials with promising biomedical and industrial applications.

Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal

19-Aug-2026

Quantum simulators get error bars

University of Innsbruck
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a method for determining the accuracy of quantum simulations. The new method not only reconstructs the dynamics of a quantum system from experimental data, but can also quantify the uncertainty of the predictions derived from it. The verification method was demonstrated in Innsbruck, Austria, on an ion-trap quantum computer with up to 51 qubits.

Journal: Physical Review X
Funder: Austrian Science Fund

19-Aug-2026

Reusing liquid pickle waste to produce omega-3 fatty acids

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a global first, Hiroshima University researchers demonstrate that food processing liquid waste can be used and reused to produce two omega-3 fatty acids by the cultivation of Aurantiochytrium sp., a marine microorganism.

Journal: LWT
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency

19-Aug-2026

Interacting with customer service AI can make people act more like robots, research suggests

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research argues that interacting with robots displaying human-like behaviors can cause people to adopt robot-like traits or ‘robotoid humanness.’

Journal: AI & Society