Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are often too volatile for everyday use. Stablecoins, digital coins linked to steady assets like the US dollar, make using crypto for daily payments more practical. Prof. Min DAI, Chair Professor in Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics, and Director of The Research Centre for Blockchain Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, presents a robust stablecoin design using option pricing theory and smart contracts on Ethereum. The dual-class structure delivers fixed-income and stablecoin options, effectively separates speculation from real usage and demonstrates resilience to extreme market event. 

Bielefeld University is establishing a new extracurricular learning space with the teutolab for social sciences. Combining politics, economics and sociology, it invites young people to critically explore everyday life, social conflicts and future challenges. Researchers at the university are developing new ways to empower young people in times of growing uncertainty and political polarisation.

Korea’s research community has reached an important milestone on the path toward next-generation mobile communications with the development of a technology platform that brings the 6G era closer. Researchers expect that AI-Native mobile networks, in which artificial intelligence autonomously controls and optimizes the communication system, could achieve transmission efficiencies up to 10 times higher than those of 5G. ETRI announced that it has completed the development of AI-based wireless access technology (AI-RAN), a core foundational technology for the 6G era, and has achieved significant results in paving the way for the AI-based next-generation mobile communication era.

Mental health problems are keeping an increasing number of Norwegians out of the employment market. Treatment alone is often not enough to get people back to work. Some groups are at greater risk of being away from work for a long time – or even permanently.

Businesses along the Norwegian coastline are becoming increasingly vulnerable to storm surges and flooding. Researchers have now created digital maps that show who is most at risk.

Exercising more and losing weight are consistently among the most common New Year’s resolutions. But University of Texas at Arlington experts say the real key to better health isn’t about hitting a magic number on the scale—or even logging 10,000 steps a day. Instead, it’s about focusing on achievable personalized goals that improve overall well-being.

In the field, UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Magali Nehemy traces how a forest built to recycle rain is running on thinner margins 

ETRI, South Korea’s leading government-funded research institute, is establishing itself as a key research entity for securing nation’s artificial intelligence sovereignty. ETRI announced that it was selected as one of five national research teams as part of the NC AI Consortium in the independent AI foundation model development project, promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and began full-scale AI research in August. This selection is particularly significant as it solidifies ETRI’s status as a national research institute and secures its representation in the research community.