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Brain signal linked to communication challenges in autism

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Why do some children with autism communicate more easily than others, even when they hear the same words? New research suggests the answer may lie in the brain’s electrical activity.

Funder: Autism Research Institute, University of Washington Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

Progress & accountability in modern life sciences in SLAS Technology Vol. 38

SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Volume 38 of SLAS Technology includes one review, three technical briefs, nine original research articles, two literature highlights, and seven entries from Special Issues on Revolutionizing Transcriptomics from Single-Cell Insights to RNA-Based Interventions and Bio-Inspired Computing and Machine Learning Analytics for a Future-Oriented Mental Well-Being.

Journal: SLAS TECHNOLOGY

Public investment in liver transplants saves lives and is also beneficial in economic and social terms

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Public investment in liver transplants not only saves lives and substantially improves patients’ survival and quality of life, but also generates a positive long-term social and economic return. So demonstrates a pioneering study led by researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the National Transplant Organization (ONT), and Vall d’Hebron University Hospital. More than four decades after the first liver transplant in Spain in 1984, this is the first study to perform a global assessment of the impact of these interventions, not only from the perspective of patients’ health, but also from the economic and social perspectives.

Journal: Health Economics Review
Funder: Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2021-001195-M

Lehigh University joins international consortium to advance commercial space research and innovation

Lehigh University
Business Announcement

Seeking to expand the boundaries of microgravity science and accelerate the global space economy, Lehigh University has joined a newly formed international research consortium spearheaded by The Ohio State University.

A tiny gene edit makes rice safer without reducing harvests

Okayama University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cadmium is a highly toxic heavy metal, and rice is a major source of dietary cadmium intake worldwide. Reducing cadmium accumulation in rice grains without affecting crop yield remains challenging because cadmium shares transport pathways with essential minerals. Now, researchers identified a point mutation in the rice transporter gene OsNramp5 that significantly lowers grain cadmium accumulation while maintaining yield and essential mineral content, providing a promising strategy for breeding safer rice.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Program for Forming Japan’s Peak Research Universities, Hainan Excellent Talent Team, National Natural Science Foundation of China, CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research

Bacterial cellulose offers a sustainable path for high-performance energy storage, highlights Hasanuddin University study

Hasanuddin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bacterial cellulose-derived carbon (BCC) has emerged as a promising electrode material for supercapacitors because it simultaneously offers lightweight architecture, mechanical flexibility, and a tunable structure. In a recent review article, Professor Dahlang Tahir and his team of researchers from Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, systematically analyzed 49 Scopus-indexed articles on BCC electrodes, identifying the most effective fabrication strategies as well as the key challenges related to reproducibility, scalability, and practical device performance.

Journal: Journal of Energy Storage
Funder: Hasanuddin University thematic research group (TRG) program fund

So you thought antiferroelectric materials were always non-polar? Think again!

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What exactly are antiferroelectric materials, and what does it mean that they can also be polar? The answers may open new possibilities in technology.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

Full-chip EUV curvilinear mask optimization

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prof. Shiyuan Liu’s team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology has reported a full-chip EUV curvilinear mask optimization framework that integrates deep learning with gradient-based inverse optimization. This framework achieves an estimated speedup of four orders of magnitude over conventional FDTD methods while preserving accuracy, thereby enabling full-chip EUV mask optimization within a practical runtime. Doctoral student Pinxuan He is the first author of this paper, and Prof. Shiyuan Liu and Dr. Jiamin Liu are the co-corresponding authors. Prof. Honggang Gu, Dr. Song Zhang, Prof. Qi Xia, and Prof. Hao Jiang also contributed to this research.

Journal: Light: Advanced Manufacturing
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Major Program of Hubei Province, Major Science and Technology Innovation Program of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Innovation Project of Optics Valley Laboratory, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Postdoctor Project of Hubei Province

FIFA and pop superstars should discount tickets to cut the climate costs of 'mega-events' – study

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Travelling by fans dominates the climate damage of large-scale events, accounting for 82% of emissions for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 97% for Coldplay's 2024 European tour, new research suggests.

Journal: Communications Sustainability