24-Aug-2026 Expert pieces together puzzle from fragments of 1,600-year-old Roman text University of Cincinnati A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. What’s less surprising? It’s about taxes. Funder European Research Council, Semple Classics Fund
23-Aug-2026 Funding fuels further study into Queensland’s elusive ‘vegan Dracula’ fish Griffith University Scientists team up to understand cryptic Australian brook lamprey, while potentially confirming two new species found in Queensland.
21-Aug-2026 ‘This can’t be correct’ – how scientists formed a new theory around Arctic erosion Simon Fraser University Sometimes science throws up the unexpected. When a team of researchers set out to model river erosion in Canada’s High Arctic, they did not expect the findings to defy common sense. Journal Communications Earth & Environment
21-Aug-2026 Remembering Hertz Fellow and Board Director Elise Cawley (1961–2026) Fannie and John Hertz Foundation The Hertz Foundation mourns the passing of Hertz Fellow Elise Cawley, a valued member of our Board of Directors and a devoted supporter of the Foundation for many years.
21-Aug-2026 The Hertz Foundation Travel Fund: removing barriers to professional growth Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Established in 2025, the Hertz Foundation Travel Fund award provides financial support to enrolled in-school and early-career Hertz Fellows (fewer than 10 years out of their degree) seeking to advance their professional growth through conference travel and interdisciplinary engagement. To date, about 40 Hertz Fellows have received travel fund awards Funder Hertz Foundation
21-Aug-2026 University of Tennessee research moves forward by going in circles University of Tennessee at Knoxville University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers are advancing a circular bioeconomy that transforms renewable biological resources into fuels, materials and other products while minimizing waste. Through interdisciplinary research, industry partnerships and artificial intelligence, UT is developing solutions that could strengthen agriculture, expand biobased manufacturing and create new economic opportunities in Tennessee and beyond.
20-Aug-2026 Physicist builds tools to see quantum matter more clearly DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory John Lajoie is a builder—not of buildings or everyday machines, but of detectors with a special purpose. A physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Lajoie has shaped his career around finding hard-to-solve problems and coming up with new ways to tackle them. Funder US Department of Energy Office of Science
20-Aug-2026 What comes after fire? Boston University How one Boston University scientist—and an unlikely partnership in California’s wine country—is helping uncover what forests need to survive in a warming world
20-Aug-2026 Dehydration can cause more than thirst: Expert explains how it can affect the heart Mayo Clinic Dehydration can affect much more than your thirst. It also can place extra stress on your heart and cardiovascular system, explains Brodie Marthaler, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Health System.
20-Aug-2026 In pursuit of nearly perfect battery materials, performance Iowa State University Questions and answers with a battery expert: "That’s what I’m up against. I have to make a battery that’s so perfect, that every time you charge it and discharge it, it only loses .01%." -- Steve Martin, Iowa State University.
