In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete structures that would be technically challenging and costly to produce using conventional methods. 

Biomedical engineer Ashutosh Agarwal is collaborating with researchers at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Miller School of Medicine to develop a device crucial to their effort to complete a whole human eye transplant.

Advancements in social media and communications technology has made underaged individuals increasingly vulnerable to online sexual exploitation. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) initiates a research project that seeks to incorporate the perspectives of children and adolescents in understanding the issue of online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). This project has received funding support from the Research Grants Council (RGC) Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) 2025/26, with total grant of HK$503,000.

Using HLRS’s Hawk supercomputer, University of Stuttgart scientists have for the first time produced high-resolution simulation data characterizing the transition from low to high Reynolds numbers in turbulent boundary layers.

Norway is home to 212 different bee species. Or perhaps rather: the country used to have 212 species. Insect numbers are generally in decline, and some bees are either struggling or have already disappeared.

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have demonstrated how nanotechnology can significantly improve biofuel production from microalgae. Their study, recently published in ACS Applied Bio Materials, focuses on Chlorella vulgaris, a fast-growing species commonly found in freshwater environments.

A new machine, the first of its kind in Europe, allows users to visualise what happens when tiny particles hit a surface three times faster than a bullet. This information will enable engineers to make better materials and coatings for aircraft parts, medical implants, and for simulating intergalactic collisions.

Up to now, underwater navigation for divers has been limited primarily to orientation at distinctive points or compass navigation. Although there are concepts that, similar to a sonar, are intended to enable position determination using acoustic signal sources, these require a high sound pressure level. This affects the ecosystem and causes stress for the local fauna. In the FFG project ScubaPOIs, a team led by Philipp Berglez from the Institute of Geodesy at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has now developed a system that uses GNSS-supported buoys that emit electromagnetic signals to enable precise positioning underwater without harming animals. Using a head-up display in their masks, divers can find their way to the desired destinations and back to the dive boat or around restricted areas. In addition, they can always be found in an emergency. In addition to TU Graz, pentamap GmbH, 1st-Relief GmbH, Oxygen Scientific GmbH, Disaster Competence Network Austria and the Austrian Centre for Research Diving were also involved in the project.

Homelessness in Los Angeles County declined for the second consecutive year, according to results from the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. USC researchers involved in the count explain key findings on homelessness in the county.