Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia) have uncovered a critical molecular cause keeping aqueous rechargeable batteries from becoming a safer, economical option for sustainable energy storage. Their findings reveal how water compromises battery life and performance and how the addition of affordable salts – such as zinc sulfate – mitigates this issue, even increasing the battery lifespan by more than ten times.

Hikers on the Konza Prairie may look up this summer and see something unusual in the air. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No — it's K-State research in action.

University of Pittsburgh professor Lei Fang and his PhD student Xinyu Si have demonstrated that the direction of turbulent energy flux, once thought to be fixed, can in fact be reversed. Using tensor geometry, they created a new type of turbulent flow that challenges long-standing assumptions about how energy moves through chaotic systems like oceans and the atmosphere. Their research is detailed in the article “Manipulating the direction of turbulent energy flux via tensor geometry in a two-dimensional flow” (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv0956), published in Science Advances.

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the July 2025 Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking highlights the concept of “Humane Artificial Intelligence,” examining how AI can support human flourishing across contexts including healthcare, education, peacekeeping, and daily digital interactions.

Researchers from Columbia Engineering have established a framework for the design of bioactive injectable hydrogels formulated with extracellular vesicles (EVs) for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.

Kinget leads the team that designed specialized silicon chips that collect data in one of the harshest and most important environments in particle physics. Their most recent paper describing this project was published July 1 in the IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society.

Researchers at Cranfield University are working on a new project to speed up genetic engineering in plants, accelerating innovations that will improve crops around the world.