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5-Aug-2026

A ‘double-punch’ approach to tackling brain cancer

University of Technology Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Glioblastoma is difficult to treat because tumour cells infiltrate the surrounding brain tissue and the blood-brain barrier limits how well drugs and radiotherapy reach the brain. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Harvard and Henan universities have discovered a ‘double-punch’ nanozyme platform designed to address both problems with a single tool of smart nanoparticles.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province, Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Science and Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province

5-Aug-2026

KAIST reconstructs transparent objects through dynamic scattering layers in a single shot

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- A research team led by Professor Mooseok Jang of the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering has developed a technology that reconstructs a transparent object hidden between two dynamic scattering layers—layers that scatter light in multiple directions—from a single shot.

- The technology is expected to have applications in a wide range of fields, including precision inspection for semiconductors and displays and biomedical imaging.

Journal: Optica
Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science and ICT

5-Aug-2026

NSF CAREER Award will help University of Illinois researcher improve the quality of AI training data

University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

AI systems increasingly influence how people search for information, receive recommendations, learn, work, and create. But these systems are only as reliable as the quality of the data used to train them. Supported by an NSF CAREER grant, Jiaqi Ma hopes to develop tools to make data curation more principled and transparent and improve the performance, reliability, and safety of widely used technologies such as language models and recommendation systems.

5-Aug-2026

Quartz particles reveal how reactor design can boost coal tar yield and quality

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a simple visual method for tracking how volatile products move inside a fixed-bed coal pyrolysis reactor. Their findings show that carefully designed internal structures can redirect these vapors, limit undesirable secondary reactions, and improve the production of valuable tar and fuel gas.

Journal: Sustainable Carbon Materials

5-Aug-2026

Climate pledges could shrink global cropland by 12.8% by 2100

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C could unintentionally place growing pressure on the world’s food supply, according to a new perspective published in Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes. The analysis warns that climate commitments relying heavily on afforestation and other land-based carbon removal strategies may reduce global cropland by 12.8% by 2100.

Journal: Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes

5-Aug-2026

No-tillage and microbial fertilizer work together to build carbon in nutrient-poor albic soils

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Albic soils are often compact, acidic, and low in organic matter, making them difficult to cultivate and limiting their ability to store carbon. A new field study suggests that combining no-tillage management, retained crop straw, and microbial organic fertilizer may provide an effective way to improve these soils while increasing their soil organic carbon reserves.

Journal: Agricultural Ecology and Environment

5-Aug-2026

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers create artificial intelligence tool to manage modern power grid

Florida State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems treats the power grid as a connected network to generate more accurate forecasts. The research was published in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

5-Aug-2026

DNA innovation opens new frontiers in preventing disease before it begins

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review highlights how advances in DNA technology are reshaping the future of healthcare by shifting the focus from treatment to prevention. Cutting-edge tools are enabling earlier detection of risk and more precise intervention at the genetic level, offering the potential to stop diseases before symptoms ever appear.

Journal: Genes & Diseases

5-Aug-2026

Team's AI agent to speed Alzheimer's treatment

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Business Announcement

Vanderbilt Health researchers have received a grant from Eli Lilly and Company, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, to build an artificial intelligence (AI) tool within the electronic health record system (EHR) to get patients with Alzheimer's disease to treatment faster. The computer project is designed for transferability to other health systems.