Argonne National Laboratory announced Xander Newlun from the University of Texas at San Antonio won the 2025 Conquer the Hill® Command competition.

Inside Dr. Todd Griffith’s laboratory stands a 6-foot-tall wind turbine that looks like an upside-down eggbeater; it’s actually a small-scale prototype for a radically different type of offshore wind turbine.

Griffith and his team of University of Texas at Dallas researchers recently demonstrated through extensive testing that the prototype works. The design shows promise for capturing untapped potential energy from wind blowing across deep ocean water.

AI in education is taken seriously in Finland, which is known as a top country for education in the world. In northern Finland, city of Oulu, not far from the Arctic Circle, teenagers have been coached in physics class by a new and innovative AI agent pilot MAI for the first time. 

High-throughput genetic testing identifies 25% more rare disease risks, empowering families with early detection & prevention. Learn more this World Rare Disease Day!

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has developed a ‘personal data trust distribution platform (Trust Data Connectome Technology)’ to ensure personal data sovereignty, breaking away from the existing data industry environment centered on big tech companies.

Nele Albers of Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) uses AI coaches to help smokers quit smoking and vaping for her doctoral dissertation. She developed an AI coach that uses psychologically informed Reinforcement Learning (RL), a form of machine learning in which a model learns through rewards, similar to how humans learn behaviors. Albers based her research on insights from behavior change theories and data from three large-scale studies with more than 500 participants each. 

In Austria alone, around 220,000 tonnes of textile waste are produced every year, of which almost 80 per cent is incinerated. As a result, valuable raw materials are irretrievably lost. A team led by Thomas Harter from the Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology has come up with a sustainable solution to this problem. The researchers have developed a process to recover the fibres from cotton-based used textiles and use them to produce paper for packaging materials. Compared to conventional recycled paper, the paper with textile fibre content proves to be significantly stronger.