15-Apr-2026 Game changer in game industry: Dutch scientists find way to charge your game console while playing Delft University of Technology What if gaming didn’t need batteries? Researchers at Delft University of Technology built a portable console powered by solar energy and a hand crank—embedded into gameplay. Sustainable, interactive, and powered by the player! The researchers embedded the crank into the gameplay experience, allowing users to, for example, fire a weapon in DOOM, or change the speed of Tetris blocks. They discovered that gamers respond positively to these innovative experiences, and they see huge potential in new, sustainable and battery-free ways of gaming that are also better attuned to our body’s movements.
15-Apr-2026 SURF completes DUNE steel beam test lift South Dakota Science and Technology Authority A crew of technicians, riggers, hoist operators, and engineers at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) have successfully completed the first test lift of one of the long steel beams that will be used to construct the far detector cryostats for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
15-Apr-2026 Fishing for better tracking: Tracing anglers in the Gulf Coast Texas A&M University Dr. Alan Kuhnle, assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department at Texas A&M University, is using smartphone mobility data collected from anglers to develop machine-learning approaches to estimate recreational fishing effort and classify fishing behaviors.
15-Apr-2026 How to restore seagrass meadows, salt marshes and mangroves University of Oldenburg Thorsten Balke, a geographer from the University of Oldenburg in Germany, focuses on the conservation of coastal wetlands that emerge for several hours at low tide. He and his team have developed their own measuring devices to identify which areas are best suited as habitats for specific biotic communities. Take a visit to this unique landscape. Journal Limnology and Oceanography Methods
15-Apr-2026 URochester launches interdisciplinary Department of Sound Arts and Engineering University of Rochester The University of Rochester has launched the Department of Sound Arts and Engineering, a new interdisciplinary academic department bringing together two of URochester’s world-class schools—the Eastman School of Music and the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. The integrated department advances research, education, creative practice, and public engagement at the nexus of sound, technology, and the musical arts.
15-Apr-2026 The moment dementia begins is not the diagnosis Texas A&M University Rather than treating Alzheimer’s disease as a single endpoint, Rahul Srinivasan and Michelle Hook — both associate professors with the Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health — are focusing on the key biological moment that precedes it: the transition from MCI to dementia. Their collaborative project, supported by a seedling grant from the Texas A&M Health Dementia and Alzheimer’s Research Initiative (DARI), asks whether this transition can be understood mechanistically and if intervening during that transition could change long-term outcomes.
15-Apr-2026 ETRI to promote smart agriculture innovation in cooperation with Damyang-gun, KIST, and KAIST National Research Council of Science & Technology A team of Korean researchers will jointly develop next-generation smart agriculture technology that converges Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), multi-agent systems, and AI robot technologies, and will begin full-scale cooperation to establish an industrialization foundation by demonstrating it in actual agricultural fields. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
14-Apr-2026 The secret hub of Finnish resistance was in New York — attitudes also divided the Mannerheim family University of Oulu, Finland During the first period of Russification, a significant strategic center of the Finnish resistance movement operated in New York. There, among others, Carl Erik Johan Mannerheim sought support from Japan and the United States for Finland’s independence, while his brother Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the future President of Finland, served in the Russian army. New research sheds new light on this subject and challenges our understanding of the Finnish resistance movement.
14-Apr-2026 Coalition sues Trump EPA for failure to follow through on life-saving national soot standard American Thoracic Society The American Thoracic Society – along with 16 health, community and environmental groups – filed a lawsuit yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter air pollution, commonly known as soot. The coalition also filed a motion for summary judgment asking the court to put the agency on a court-ordered deadline to carry out its overdue responsibility.
14-Apr-2026 Rice bioengineer to lead national organization, advocate for research funding on Capitol Hill Rice University The Rice bioengineering department helped host the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, where two Rice faculty were inducted as Fellows and Michael King stepped in as president.
