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11-Jun-2025

Innovative grayscale-assisted method converts near-infrared images to vibrant RGB visuals

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Beijing Institute of Technology introduce a novel two-stage method for converting monochromatic near-infrared (NIR) images into high-quality RGB images. In the first stage, luminance information is recovered by converting NIR images into grayscale images. The second stage then restores chrominance information, transforming grayscale images into vibrant RGB images. This grayscale-assisted approach significantly improves image quality for applications such as assisted driving and security surveillance.

Journal: Tsinghua Science & Technology

11-Jun-2025

Study finds pitchers have thicker UCLs in elbows than other baseball players, factors that risk common injury

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Kansas led a study in which they measured the throwing arms of college baseball players in the preseason with wearable technology. Findings showed pitchers have thicker UCLs than position playerrs, and that all players had a thicker ligament in their throwing arms versus non-throwing arm. The study also found factors like arm slot do not correlate with the common elbow injury, despite conventional knowledge and can help players, trainers and others avoid the surgery that frequently leads baseball players to "Tommy John surgery."

Journal: Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

11-Jun-2025

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

European Space Agency
Reports and Proceedings

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.

11-Jun-2025

How we really judge AI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds people are more likely to approve of the use of AI in situations where its abilities are perceived as superior to humans’ and where personalization isn’t necessary.

Journal: Psychological Bulletin

11-Jun-2025

Ultrasound scanning end-effector with adjustable constant contact force

Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research article published by the University of Macau presented a robotic US scanning system based on a hybrid active–passive force control method, which can be helpful in modern medical treatment via US imaging.

The new research paper, published on May. 2 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, summarized a robotic ultrasound scanning system with a constant-force end-effector. Its uniqueness is the introduction of a hybrid active–passive force control approach to maintaining a constant contact force between the ultrasound probe and the continually changing surface.

Journal: Cyborg and Bionic Systems

11-Jun-2025

Green seaweed replaces seagrass, but slugs pose new threats

Florida Atlantic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the past decade, the fast-growing seaweed Caulerpa prolifera has taken over seagrass in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. While this seaweed provides some habitat, it supports fewer marine species than the original seagrass, signaling a decline in biodiversity. Now, scientists are closely monitoring an unexpected player: small, green sap-sucking sea slugs that feed on C. prolifera and have surged in number. Their presence is prompting new questions about habitat loss, potential pathways for ecosystem recovery, and the uncertain future of marine life in a seagrass-depleted environment.

Journal: Marine Biology

11-Jun-2025

14 TUP journals rank in the top 10% in their subject categories according to the 2024 CiteScore metrics

Tsinghua University Press
Grant and Award Announcement

On June 3, Elsevier released the 2024 CiteScore rankings, featuring 33 Tsinghua University Press (TUP) journals--a 17.2% increase in indexed titles compared to 2023.