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Karen Lozano, Eduardo Salas elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice professors Karen Lozano and Eduardo Salas have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the nation.

Helping computers perceive and interact with the visual world

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Cordelia Schmid, Research Director at Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, as the 2025-2026 ACM Athena Lecturer. Schmid is recognized for outstanding contributions to computer vision in image retrieval, object recognition, and video understanding. Her work has helped computers understand, perceive, and interact with the visual world.

Infectious disease surveillance platform BEACON launches as a new open-source global resource

Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
Business Announcement

The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open-source infectious diseases monitoring tool powered by AI and human experts, launches. BEACON is housed at Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and operated in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital.

FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer

College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, Carnegie Mellon’s Feinberg lab has built a first-of-its-kind tissue model entirely out of collagen.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

Water quality could be degraded by development and conversion of forests upstream, with sediment levels and nitrogen concentrations also worsened, per modelling analysis of the Middle Chattahoochee watershed of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Water quality could be degraded by development and conversion of forests upstream, with sediment levels and nitrogen concentrations also worsened, per modelling analysis of the Middle Chattahoochee watershed of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

Journal: PLOS Water

Engineering a robot that can jump 10 feet high – without legs

Georgia Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn’t have legs. The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes pinching themselves into odd shapes to fling themselves forward and backward

Journal: Science Robotics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

ATP prevents harmful aggregation of proteins associated with Parkinson’s and ALS

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While a comprehensive cure-all to these neurological conditions is unlikely, scientists are making headway into understanding their fundamental characteristics with the hope of preventing or alleviating cognitive and motor impairments. In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers from the Molecular Neuroscience Unit and the former Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now discovered that ATP, which is most commonly thought of as the ‘fuel’ of our cells, plays a surprising role in relation to neurodegenerative diseases.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

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