Researchers typically analyze images taken by geostationary satellites to identify regions of the sky where contrails form, but new research shows adding images taken by low-Earth-orbiting satellites would help identify many more such regions. Pilots could avoid these regions to reduce aviation’s climate impact. 

The Universitat Jaume I has joined the national STEAM Alliance for Female Talent, promoted by Spain’s Ministry of Education to encourage girls and young women to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics, and to help close the gender gap in these fields. Membership requires submitting a project that promotes STEAM careers among girls and adolescents and passing a rigorous evaluation process.

The university’s application included three initiatives: "Sucre", which introduces computational thinking and programming in primary and secondary schools; "Ingeniera… ¿por qué no?", which raises awareness and provides resources to increase the presence of women in technical degrees; and "Connecta amb la ciència", a programme offering hands-on workshops and talks to secondary school students led by researchers from the university’s science and technology areas.

No calibration, no alignment errors: A new laser system images and machines in one step, carving precise shapes in circuits and weeding out bad micro-LEDs with better than 15 µm accuracy—read how it works.

A research team at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Faculty of Medicine at Kanazawa University has developed a new class of engineered extracellular vesicles (EVs) capable of inducing antigen-specific regulatory T cells (Tregs), the immune cells that play a central role in suppressing excessive immune responses. The findings, now published in Drug Delivery, may pave the way for next-generation therapies for autoimmune and allergic diseases, where unwanted immune activation must be precisely controlled.

Abstract:

A research group led by Professor Hiroaki SUZUKI and Takeshi HAYAKAWA from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University, graduate student Zhitai HUANG, graduate students Kanji KANEKO (at the time) and Ryotaro YONEYAMA (at the time), together with Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Tomoya MARUYAMA from the Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Integrated Research (IIR), Institute of Science Tokyo, and Professor Masahiro TAKINOUE from the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a novel and highly accessible technology for producing uniform Biomolecular Condensates^*1) using a simple, low-cost vibration platform.