SAN ANTONIO — June 16, 2025 — The Women’s Global Leadership Conference (WGLC) in Energy has selected Southwest Research Institute’s Angel Wileman for 2025’s Women in Hydrogen 50. This list recognizes 50 women, nominated by their colleagues and peers, as the current and future leaders of the hydrogen economy. This distinction honors Wileman as one of the most accomplished figures in her industry, with the potential to affect real change.

Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have demonstrated an innovative method to control magnetism in materials using an energy-efficient electric field. The discovery focuses on materials known as magnetoelectrics, which offer promise for next-generation energy technologies, data storage, energy conversion, and medical devices. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.

The Diels–Alder reaction is a widely used tool for building complex ring structures but often requires difficult-to-make starting materials. Researchers from Waseda University, along with other collaborators, developed a palladium-catalyzed method to generate reactive ortho-quinodimethanes using simple, commercially available compounds. This one-step, multicomponent reaction efficiently produces diverse polycyclic molecules. Their discovery of a unique benzyl–palladium intermediate offers a practical, faster approach to synthesizing biologically important and structurally complex compounds, including natural products.  

Co-senior authors Jeremy Levy of Pitt and Andrew Daley of Oxford, collaborators from the early days of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, wrote an explanatory analysis of their group’s chiral-electron findings publishing in Science Advances Friday. In this study that combines  quantum physics, physics, biology, chemistry and organic systems, they developed in essence a programmable platform that could ultimately provide new ways to explore electrons in chiral systems — such as DNA, amino acids, proteins and more.

Several years ago, a cosmic particle detector in Antarctica observed a series of unusual radio signals, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere — and a new study provides additional context to the signals.

KSU professor Mahmoud Asmar has received a three-year grant worth $799,800 from the U.S. Department of Energy. His work aims to deepen our understanding of how to generate and stabilize topological out-of-equilibrium quantum states.