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Education Nov 18, 2025

Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations. Attacks on academic freedom threaten this vital work

Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of their purported ideological bias. These funding cuts were further exacerbated ...

Biochemistry Nov 17, 2025

From artificial organs to advanced batteries: A breakthrough 3D-printable polymer

A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body's immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia research team, could lead to safer medical technology for organ transplants and drug delivery systems. ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 6, 2025

Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance

Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances.

Biotechnology Nov 4, 2025

Food-fraud breakthrough: New system speedily pinpoints rogue ingredients in popular dishes

A "robust, reliable and highly sensitive" tool that quickly and reliably identifies rogue ingredients, even in processed and cooked foods, has been developed by University of Aberdeen scientists. The work is published in ...

Materials Science Oct 20, 2025

Sodium-ion battery breakthrough could power greener energy—and even make seawater drinkable

Sodium-ion batteries may be the answer to the future of sustainable energy storage and could be used to make drinking water out of seawater. Scientists at the University of Surrey have discovered a simple way to boost their ...

Economics & Business Oct 13, 2025

Patents in fuzzy, overlapping categories can catalyze breakthrough inventions

Breakthrough inventions are most likely to emerge when knowledge categories are blurred. Research by Gianluca Carnabuci, professor of organizational behavior at ESMT, and Balázs Kovács, professor at Yale School of Management, ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 11, 2025

Breakthrough mirror-image nanopores open door to new biomedical applications

For the first time, researchers have successfully fabricated and characterized a fully functional mirror-image nanopore—a molecular gateway built entirely from D-amino acids, the mirror-image forms of the natural building ...

Other Sep 22, 2025

Famous IVF memoir had hidden ghostwriter who spun breakthrough into emotional quest, archives reveal

Previously unseen documents show how a poet performed a major ghostwriting job on the autobiography of the two British pioneers behind the world's first "test-tube baby," so that the book used emotional storytelling to aid ...

Plants & Animals Sep 8, 2025

Videos show how high-speed tongues of salamanders and chameleons are helping unlock engineering breakthroughs

The tongues of chameleons and salamanders might not seem like the inspiration for tomorrow's engineering breakthroughs, but inside the Deban Laboratory at the University of South Florida, biology and engineering are colliding ...

Nanomaterials Sep 6, 2025

Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record

Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C, outperforming all other materials used for extreme-temperature applications. This breakthrough could be ...

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