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20-Oct-2025

Color-converted full-color Micro QLED microdisplay technology

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

Micro display is one of the important components of AR glasses. Micro-QLED is emerging as promising AR display technology due to its wide luminance range, facile fabrication of high-resolution and full-color patterns. Scientist from Beijing Institute of Technology reported the fabrication of color-converted Micro-QLED which provides a simple and low-cost route to achieve full-color micro display.

Journal: Light Science & Applications
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation, Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, Administrative Commission of Zhongguancun Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China

20-Oct-2025

Winners of Applied Microbiology International Horizon Awards 2025 announced

Applied Microbiology International
Grant and Award Announcement

The winners of the Applied Microbiology International Horizon Awards 2025 have been announced. The prizes, awarded by the learned society Applied Microbiology International (AMI), celebrate the brightest minds in the field and promote the research, group, projects, products and individuals who continue to help shape the future of applied microbiology.

20-Oct-2025

New study reveals how Europe can cut food system emissions and meet sustainability goals

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University

A new study led by Dr. Mohammad Fazle Rabbi at the University of Debrecen uncovers how targeted reforms in Europe’s food systems could significantly reduce carbon emissions and accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG‑12), which promotes responsible consumption and production.

Journal: Carbon Research

20-Oct-2025

Most of Wine Country’s agricultural workers have been exposed to wildfires, new survey finds

University of California - Berkeley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sonoma County is known for its rolling fields and famed vineyards, making the region a pillar in California’s wine industry. But a sweeping new survey from UC Berkeley has found that approximately 75% of agricultural workers there have worked during wildfires since 2017, raising questions about worker safety and a program that could further expose workers during wildfire evacuations.

20-Oct-2025

Disrupting cancer’s secret hubs: A new way to halt tumor growth

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows how RNA — normally just a messenger — gets hijacked to build liquid-like “droplet hubs” in the nucleus of cells. These hubs act as command centers, switching on growth-promoting genes. But the research team at Texas A&M University didn’t stop at observing this; they created a molecular switch to dissolve the hubs on demand, cutting off the cancer’s growth at its source.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, American Cancer Society, Alkek Early Career Fellowship

20-Oct-2025

How origami robots with magnetic muscles could make medicine delivery less invasive and more effective

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study used co-extrusion to create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which could be applied to origami-shaped soft robots. This allowed researchers to move and control the robots using external magnetic fields without compromising the robots' movement or surface area. These robots could be used to deliver medicine inside the body, or to cross terrain.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

20-Oct-2025

Commercially important fish found congregating at methane seep off Chile

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red cusk-eels, fish prized in Chilean seafood markets and celebrated in a poem by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, embedded in a bushy thicket of tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of central Chile. This is the first time this commercially important species has been documented using methane seeps as habitat.

Journal: Ecology