A review published in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems examines how IoT and machine learning technologies can transform manufacturing energy management. By enabling real-time monitoring, prediction, and optimization, these approaches offer new pathways for energy-efficient and sustainable factories while addressing key challenges in industrial adoption.

Researchers have identified rainbow trout blood as a promising platform for monitoring the biological hazards of biodegradable microplastics. By combining advanced fluorescence imaging with single-cell analysis, the study reveals how these particles interact with circulating blood cells and disrupt immune-related processes. The findings also highlight an overlooked concern: environmental aging may alter and potentially intensify the harmful effects of plastics designed to biodegrade.

Inflammation is central to coronary artery disease, yet many anti-inflammatory strategies have failed to improve cardiovascular outcomes. A new Science Bulletin review explains why and proposes a “4R framework”—right target, right patient, right timing and right benefit–risk balance—to guide precision anti-inflammatory therapy.

Deltamethrin disrupts gut bacteria and brain clock signaling, impairing antibacterial immunity in Nile tilapia through the brain–thyroid–immune axis. Dietary sodium butyrate alleviates this immune damage.

A research team has discovered a new low-energy thermodynamic response in the frustrated quantum magnet SrCu₂(BO₃)₂ by combining high-pressure, low-temperature, and magnetic-field measurements. Using advanced calorimetry techniques, the team observed a robust T-linear specific heat region near the pressure-induced first-order transition between the plaquette-singlet and antiferromagnetic states. This finding reveals a previously unexplored regime of gapless excitations in a quantum magnetic insulator and offers new opportunities for studying emergent phenomena in strongly correlated systems.

Subcutaneous immunization with live influenza virus in mice provided durable protection against lethal flu, outperforming intramuscular or inactivated vaccines. The virus remained restricted to the injection site and lymph nodes without causing lung damage. A single dose gave 100% protection for 277 days through strong germinal center responses.

Researchers developed SwiVirScan, a screening platform containing 36,416 peptides from 140 swine-associated viruses. In 127 adult breeding pigs, every serum sample showed antibody reactivity to peptides assigned to multiple viruses. The study also identified a persistent association between antibody signals for porcine bufavirus and porcine circovirus 3. The findings can guide follow-up surveillance, but antibody signals alone do not establish active infection.