Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, alongside two researchers from Penn State, have demonstrated the importance of generating highly reproducible experimental data when building AI models for catalyst investigations, a framework that can help guide the reactions that do things like turn carbon dioxide into valuable fuel.

Researchers have developed a novel AI model that can analyze a routine whole histopathology image and simultaneously predict cancer subtype, specific genetic mutations, and survival outcomes across 32 different solid cancers rather than focusing on a single cancer type. The findings from the study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, highlight the potential of computational pathology to connect routine diagnostic imaging with molecular oncology.

The device needs to be plugged into a port inside the plane’s belly – an action that the researchers estimate would take under 60 seconds. This would require access to the aircraft either when parked at a gate or when in an airport hangar during regular maintenance. Access to these areas is controlled carefully but not always successfully, the computer scientists note in the new paper. The researchers successfully demonstrated the attack on a testbed made of actual Boeing 737 airplane parts and airplane software.

SPIE proudly announces that it is now accepting submissions for Advanced Quantum Photonics (AQP), the scholarly publisher’s newest journal. As the first peer-reviewed journal for applied quantum research, AQP fills a critical gap in the quantum research publishing landscape, enabling collaboration and further advancing this critical field. Launching AQP was a natural extension of the growing support and opportunities SPIE offers to meet the demands of this rapidly evolving field.

A team led by researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has pioneered a new way to study how ions diffuse in solid materials, essential knowledge for technologies including batteries, electronics and chemical catalysts. The team, which included researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), created a “tracer exchange” technique similar to the isotope tracking used to follow individual atoms through chemical reactions or cellular processes. Their results were published in Nature Communications.

Buildings today typically rely on separate systems to provide electricity, heating and cooling. A research team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has now developed a hybrid energy system that delivers all three simultaneously from the same surface by combining solar energy with the coldness of outer space. At the heart of the system is a transparent cooling layer that radiates heat into outer space as infrared radiation while allowing sunlight to pass through. The researchers successfully demonstrated the concept with a prototype under outdoor conditions and see it as a potential building block for multifunctional building envelopes. Results in Cell Reports Physical Science. (DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103492)