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8-Dec-2025

Engineering simulations rewrite the timeline of the evolution of hearing in mammals

University of Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Paleontologists from UChicago use CT scanning and software simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear like modern mammals.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

8-Dec-2025

New paper rocks earthquake science with a clever computational trick

Stevens Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. On average, about 55 earthquakes strike daily, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), totaling some 20,000 annually worldwide with 15 hitting within the magnitude 7.0 range and one reaching 8.0 or over. Earthquakes result in fatalities, damaged infrastructure, economic disruptions and can create lasting psychological trauma for individuals affected by them. They are also becoming more costly, in part because more people now live in the earthquake-prone areas, with damage reaching $14.7 billion per year in the US alone. There's no way to predict when earthquakes may hit yet, but a new paper may bring us a step closer to doing so.

Journal: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

8-Dec-2025

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology supplement highlights advances in theranostics and opportunities for growth

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As nuclear medicine theranostics expands rapidly across clinical practice worldwide, a new supplement to the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (JNMT) explores how nuclear medicine technologists are embracing their growing role within the field. Titled, Building the Future of Theranostics: Advancing Practice, Education, and Innovation Worldwide, the supplement brings together voices from across the globe, offering perspectives that span clinical lessons, educational frameworks, operational strategies, advocacy, equity, and biology.

Journal: Journal of Nuclear Medicine

8-Dec-2025

AI advances robot navigation on the International Space Station

Stanford University
Reports and Proceedings

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions.

Meeting: 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)

8-Dec-2025

Novel AI technique able to distinguish between progressive brain tumours and radiation necrosis, York University study finds

York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumours, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumours on a standard MRI. A new study led by a York University professor in the Lassonde School of Engineering found that a novel AI-based method is better able to distinguish between the two types of lesions on advanced MRI than the human eye alone, a discovery that could help clinicians more accurately identify and treat the issues.

Journal: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Terry Fox Foundation

8-Dec-2025

RSS Research Award for new lidar technology for cloud research

Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
Grant and Award Announcement

The Reinhard Süring Foundation's 2025 Research Award goes to Leipzig-based atmospheric researcher Dr. Cristofer Jiménez for his contributions to a remote sensing technology that makes it possible to study the interactions between particles and clouds much better than ever before. The so-called dual-field-of-view polarisation lidar is based on two different aperture angles, which are used to observe and compare the reflections of laser beams in the atmosphere. Every three years, the Reinhard Süring Foundation Research Prize honours young scientists for outstanding work in a subfield of meteorology. In 2025, the prize was awarded for "New techniques, methods and applications of remote sensing of the atmosphere".

Funder: Reinhard Süring Foundation (RSS):

8-Dec-2025

Mount Sinai study finds childhood leukemia aggressiveness depends on timing of genetic mutation

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different outcomes: it depends on when in development the mutation first occurs.

Journal: Cancer Discovery