Binghamton University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Nobel laureate M. Stanley Whittingham has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Those who are selected to receive the prestigious title are chosen based on their scientific or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

A research team led by Purdue University’s W. Andy Tao has discovered of a new type of protein modification related to cellular mutation that impairs a crucial enzyme’s ability to help drive energy processes. Their discovery, reported in Nature Chemistry, opens a new route to therapeutic cancer intervention.

In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstances, it is possible to induce a simple liquid to fracture like a solid object. Recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the research shows how viscous liquids can suddenly break if stretched with enough force.

Researchers have developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions, which could advance efforts to meet the growing global demand for data storage.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named four New York University faculty as 2025 AAAS Fellows: Eray Aydil, Anirban Maitra, André Fenton, and Liina Pylkkänen.

Five CUNY Graduate Center faculty members have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, placing their work among this year’s notable contributions to biology, physics, mathematics and environmental science.

A new study from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden) and AstraZeneca, shows how computational chemistry and supercomputers can help scientists better understand the fundamental mechanisms of life, specifically those of human cells. This research was conducted by the Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Unit, led by Marco De Vivo at IIT in Genoa, and was published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study focused on splicing, an essential process that enables cells to read genes and function properly, by simulating the functional dynamics of a very large and realistic model system (~2 million atoms). The results provide a more precise understanding of splicing and help explain previously difficult-to-interpret data on splicing. This research could support the development of molecules capable of controlling this process, paving the way for new treatments for diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders

Hiroshima University researchers develop a new experimental method to demonstrate that interference physically delocalizes each photon.

According to calculations by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Europe could meet all of its road transport fuel needs with renewable sources by 2040, and more than half by 2030. The European Union has enough residual and waste materials to supply climate-neutral liquid fuels for all of its road transport needs. For their project, the researchers analyzed the amounts of biogenic raw materials (plant-based residues, wood scraps, or organic waste) available in Europe, how they can be converted by technical means to renewable fuels, and the future fuel requirements of road transport. (DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000191586)