The centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August, TKMS, Wärtsilä, Steerprop and Aker Arctic had inked the contracts for the entire propulsion unit: rudder propellers, engines and exhaust gas aftertreatment system. Many of the components are genuine market innovations with which the Alfred Wegener Institute and TKMS are setting new standards in research navigation.

Researchers in the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center’s Leukemia and Drug Development Lab are working to make blood cancer a manageable illness and bring new treatments to patients more efficiently than ever before.

A research team led by Dr. Jang Sung-roc at the Electrophysics Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a ‘tailored pulsed power modulator for bias’, which can be applied in ultra-precision semiconductor processing.

University of Texas at Dallas scientists are working to limit the lifespan of potentially hazardous forever chemicals by developing new technologies to remove them quickly and efficiently from the environment. Dr. Mario Wriedt, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is investigating the use of metal-organic frameworks to physically bind to and remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated sites, including water resources.

In celebration of more than a century of plant pathology publishing, The American Phytopathological Society (APS) has released a new virtual collection in Phytopathology^®, highlighting foundational research that has shaped the field of plant pathology since the journal’s inception in 1911.

Every three seconds, one life is lost to sepsis, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance. It is a life-threatening, dysregulated immune response to infection and remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Most of these deaths are preventable with timely intervention.

Conventional culturing diagnostic methods are often slow and imprecise. The advancement of metagenomic and targeted next-generation sequencing (mNGS and tNGS) now provides rapid precision diagnostics, enabling earlier treatment.

In a collaboration showing the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a mobile muon detector that promises to enhance monitoring for spent nuclear fuel and help address a critical challenge for quantum computing.

For more than 30 years, the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Fleet Satellite Communications System (FLTSATCOM) lab has advanced student knowledge in satellite design, engineering and operations. Once a vanguard of the institution’s spacecraft design and engineering education and research programs, the ground test - or qualification - model identical to FLTSATCOM satellites launched decades ago to support advanced U.S. Navy ultrahigh frequency (UHF) communications, executed its final telemetry student exercise, Aug. 25. Long overdue renovations to the school’s Halligan Hall will soon displace the satellite from its NPS home.

Mathematicians have developed a new method called the Maximum Agreement Linear Predictor (MALP), designed to improve predictions by ensuring they have the highest possible agreement with actual outcomes. Unlike traditional methods that focus on minimizing average error, MALP optimizes the Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC), a measure that assesses how closely predicted values align with actual values on a 45-degree line. Tested using real-world data from eye scans and body fat measurements, MALP consistently produced predictions that matched actual values more closely than the conventional least-squares approach. This makes MALP a valuable new tool for scientists in fields like medicine and social sciences, especially when the goal is not just to be close, but to achieve strong alignment with the truth.