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12-May-2026

Yao to receive NSF CAREER Award

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Ningshi Yao, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), is set to receive funding for: “CAREER: A Unified Event-triggered Real-Time Scheduling and Control Co-Design Framework for Networked Safety-critical Control Systems.”

12-May-2026

UC San Diego researchers launch free ‘digital twin’ for end-to-end testing of applications over wireless networks

University of California - San Diego
Reports and Proceedings

UC San Diego engineers created a free, open-source “digital twin” that simulates real-world wireless networks, giving researchers and startups a faster, more accessible way to test next-generation technologies.

Funder: Army Research Office
Meeting: IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

12-May-2026

‘Nature’s algorithm’ found in Chinese money plants

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CSHL Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and former graduate student Cici Zheng have discovered a naturally occurring Voronoi diagram in Chinese money plants’ leaves. Their research answers a longstanding question in biology regarding the mathematics of looping vein structures and could help explain how plants solve complex problems in nature.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences William R. Mellow Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

11-May-2026

Penn Engineers study asthma on human lung-on-a-chip technology

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Penn Engineering have developed an asthma-on-a-chip that recreates the physical forces of airway constriction during an asthma attack. The study reveals how mechanical stress can drive tissue stiffening and abnormal blood vessel growth, opening new pathways for understanding asthma and developing future treatments.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: Ministry of Trade, Binghamton University

11-May-2026

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

University of California - Davis

Researchers at UC Davis are working with a Sacramento based food-tech company, California Cultured, to keep chocolate affordable and sustainable by growing everyone’s favorite treat directly from plant cells.

Funder: BioMADE

11-May-2026

Study Reveals How Strawberries, Raspberries Were Ambushed By Fungal Parasites

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Plant diseases often arise when the pathogens that cause disease are introduced into new territories. New research highlights how major plant diseases can also result from the introduction of new plants to areas where a pathogen already lurks in the soil.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Institute of Food and Agriculture

8-May-2026

A tiny cell structure with a big role in brain development

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into developmental disorders and potential therapies.

Journal: Cell Reports

7-May-2026

Study projects plant extinction rates through 2100

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A UC Davis study in Science found that 7% to 16% of global plant species studied face high risk of extinction by 2100 under current climate change projections.

Journal: Science

7-May-2026

What a devastating earthquake revealed about future quake risk

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, published in Science, found that seemingly “simple” faults can behave in surprisingly complex ways. Small differences in how parts of a fault move over time may influence where quakes start and how far they spread. The findings could improve risk estimates for major faults, including California’s San Andreas.

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China

7-May-2026

The ‘nostalgia effect’: Scientists produce less disruptive work as they age

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Analyzing the careers of 12.5 million scientists, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that older researchers produce work that is less disruptive but more likely to combine ideas in new ways. It's a pattern of creativity that affects not just individual researchers, but their labs, fields and even countries.

Journal: Science
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Google