A vaccine to treat what some call a "neglected disease" is showing promising results. Schistosomiasis primarily affects impoverished communities outside of the U.S. Hundreds of millions of people carry the disease. Still, there is only one drug available for treatment, and it doesn’t prevent reinfection. Now, research shows that at new vaccine called SchistoShield® can both treat and prevent this disease.

Cancer cells can resist treatment by displaying plasticity and becoming motile. “We can now recover circulating tumour cells while they are still alive, allowing us to study how they function,” says Professor Kirsi Ketola at the University of Eastern Finland.

A Sandia National Laboratories engineer helped lead efforts to develop and publish a standard for human readiness during technology development. 

A research team led by Dr. Won Seok Chang, Director of the Nano-convergence Manufacturing Research Division at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), developed a digital lithography scanner that adjusts exposure patterns in real time and integrated it into an R2R manufacturing system for the continuous patterning of flexible substrates. The system combines Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)-based exposure technology with ultra-precision motion control, enabling real-time compensation for substrate deformation and positional errors.

A study by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, shows that digital health start-up success depends less on having a strong idea and more on access to key resources through strategic partnerships. Analysing 12 platforms, researchers found that collaboration with healthcare institutions, universities, and funders – rather than the number of partners – is critical for accessing data, expertise, and funding. The study highlights open innovation as essential in the highly regulated healthcare sector, with no start-up succeeding independently, and emphasises the growing role of end users in co-creating practical, effective solutions.

The first thing people notice about Tanner Mauseth is his height. At 6 feet, 8 inches, he played Division I football for the University of Idaho while he majored in applied physics.

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely for more than eight decades. It’s most often associated with its role in nuclear security, but it’s also vital to nuclear power, where it is produced in reactors and can be recycled as fuel. Despite plutonium’s importance, some of its most fundamental behaviors remain a mystery.

University of Tennessee Extension offers tips for effective fire ant control, helping communities stay safe outside this summer.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Jason Newby leads the lab’s neutrino research efforts and is a founder and deputy spokesperson of the COHERENT collaboration at the Spallation Neutron Source. In 2017, COHERENT achieved the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering, a decades-predicted interaction that opened new ways to test the Standard Model and support major neutrino experiments. Newby also works on potential neutrino-based tools for nuclear security and has built a strong pipeline for students and early-career researchers. Raised in rural Tennessee, he is committed to expanding opportunities for young scientists from small schools and communities.