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Prenatal and early-life pollution exposures may influence childhood blood pressure patterns, ECHO study finds

Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A child’s blood pressure may be influenced by exposure to air pollution before and shortly after birth, according to a new study from the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. The study focused on fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), common pollutants from vehicles, power plants, and other industrial sources.

Journal: Environmental Research

Insilico Medicine integrates Nach01 Foundation Model with Microsoft Discovery to enable AI-native, enterprise-ready drug discovery workflows

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 14, 2025 - Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”, HKEX:03696), a clinical-stage biotechnology company driven by generative artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the demonstration of its Nach01 multimodal foundation model deployed on Microsoft Discovery, Microsoft’s science-focused platform designed to accelerate research and development through agentic AI. This collaboration highlights Microsoft Discovery’s extensibility with third-party AI models and illustrates how R&D organizations can adopt unified, AI-native workflows for computational drug discovery. By orchestrating secure, multi-step investigations within a Microsoft Azure-native environment, the demonstration underscores key benefits—including enhanced transparency, improved reproducibility, and scalable deployment—empowering scientific teams to streamline and advance discovery processes with great assurance.

Presenting the world's strongest battery in Davos: News tip to the media from Chalmers University of Technology

Chalmers University of Technology
Meeting Announcement

During the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on 19–23 January 2026, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden participates in Science House – an international meeting place for science, innovation and sustainable societal development. We invite journalists to find out about the latest advanced of the world’s strongest battery, and to interview the researcher who thinks that technologies such as AI isn’t “stealing” human jobs – but something we need to address Europe’s imminent skill shortage.

Physics of foam strangely resembles AI training

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that foams — from soap suds to food emulsions — are not static, as long assumed, but instead continuously reorganize themselves in ways that mathematically resemble how modern AI systems learn.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Self-healing composite can make airplane, automobile and spacecraft components last for centuries

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in aircraft wings, turbine blades and other applications – and can repair itself more than 1,000 times. The researchers estimate their self-healing strategy can extend the lifetime of conventional fiber-reinforced composite materials by centuries compared to the current decades-long design-life.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

A pendulum-based system allows energy to be extracted from ocean currents

Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Converting the vibrations generated by water currents in contact with an object into energy. This is the basis of the new system designed by Francisco Huera, a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The device harnesses the energy of water currents from the vibrations that occur when water passes around a cylinder and creates vortices behind it. This method has a very simple structure: a submerged cylindrical tube hanging from an axis that oscillates like a pendulum when the water current makes it vibrate. The results of this research have been published in the Journal of Fluids and Structures.

Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures

Your voice gives away valuable personal information, so how do you keep that data safe?

Aalto University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With speech technologies becoming increasingly common, engineering researchers want to make sure we don’t give away more information than we mean to.

Journal: Proceedings of the IEEE