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Filipino scientists develop low-cost liquid lenses

Ateneo de Manila University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Water droplets maintain their spherical shape and optical properties when placed on a hydrophobic surface made by coating a glass slide with electrospun PVC fibers. The optical properties can be changed by simply adjusting the volume of water in the droplet.

These dynamically adjustable water-based lenses have many potential future uses, from classrooms and research labs to cameras and wearable gadgets.

Journal: Results in Optics

Right patient, right dose, right time

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

NUS Medicine study uses AI to modify drug doses for personalised cancer treatment

Journal: npj Precision Oncology

Illinois Tech’s Armour Research Foundation reactor designated a nuclear historic landmark

Illinois Institute of Technology
Business Announcement

The Armour Research Foundation Reactor at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) has been officially recognized as a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Nicknamed “the atomic furnace,” the world’s first privately owned and operated nuclear reactor marked a significant transition in the history of nuclear research—from its secretive wartime origins to a publicly celebrated pursuit of knowledge and progress.

UCF scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to better understand solar system’s origins

University of Central Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), UCF scientists and collaborators analyzed far-away bodies — known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) — and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters

University of Houston engineer reinvents ceramics with origami-inspired 3D printing

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure — without breaking.

Journal: Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials

Transatlantic collaboration to develop therapeutic for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Grant and Award Announcement

A new transatlantic collaboration between the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) and LifeArc will look to develop an affordable and accessible monoclonal antibody therapeutic for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV), which could treat and protect thousands of people globally.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Military Infectious Disease Research Program

Study lays out scientific path to recouping the costs of climate change

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by Dartmouth researchers lays out a scientific framework for holding individual fossil fuel companies liable for the costs of climate change by tracing specific damages back to their emissions. The researchers use the tool to provide the first causal estimate of economic losses due to extreme heat driven by emissions. They report that carbon dioxide and methane output from just 111 companies cost the world economy $28 trillion from 1991 to 2020, with the five top-emitting firms linked to $9 trillion of those losses.

Journal: Nature