Vanessa Gumier, a researcher in the Translation for Audiovisual Media and Accessibility research group (TRAMA) at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, has created an audio description in Valencian and Spanish for the special-category Convento de Jerusalén–Matemático Marzal Falla in Valencia, enabling people with visual impairments to learn about the elements that make up the Fallas monument.

The audio guide, narrated by Francisco Campaña Romano, uses NaviLens codes, a technology that allows the code to be read without needing to focus so precisely and identifies it aloud. Over the past two Fallas campaigns (2024 and 2025), the researcher has applied a participatory action research methodology that includes observing accessibility in the monuments and conducting focus groups with blind people, accessibility specialists, Fallas artists and Fallas organisers.

Groups from ONCE have visited both the main Falla and the two 'ninots' that took part in the exhibition for the selection of the 'ninots indultats', and they evaluated the project through a survey. In addition, Vanessa Gumier is in contact with the Inclusión Fallera Association of Valencia, which last year launched a project to systematise the accessibility of Fallas monuments, involving 58 Fallas in Valencia.

Professor Kazuhiro Ogata and Senior Lecturer Canh Minh Do at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are addressing the critical need for reliable quantum computing by developing formal verification methods. By creating frameworks such as the Concurrent Dynamic Quantum Logic (CDQL) to model and verify quantum protocols, their work aims to make quantum systems dependable and ready for real-world applications.

IITGN researchers have prepared low-cost, sustainable, and scalable nitrogen-doped porous carbons by mixing cow dung with melamine and potassium bicarbonate to tackle fossil fuel emissions and global warming. While melamine provides nitrogen for improved performance, potassium bicarbonate is a green, less corrosive, and effective activating agent to create a high surface area. The material’s activity in terms of trapping CO₂ molecules was 58% better than that of pristine carbon. Good adsorption capacity at low temperature and excellent regeneration stability over multiple cycles make it a suitable candidate for large-scale deployment. Minimal wastewater generation makes the process environmentally sustainable.

A research team led by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) in collaboration with the University of Maryland (UMD) has engineered a dry-preservable cultured cell line expressing the odorant receptor Or47a. The cell line responded specifically to its target odor molecules both before and after being stored in a dried state at room temperature for 2 weeks. This is an initial step towards the development of cell-based portable devices for odor sensing.