Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used specialized tools to study materials at the atomic scale and analyze defects at the materials’ surface. Results of their research help to better understand these materials used for advance electronics, enabling innovative data storage and computation methods.

Salk is one of the few institutions that remain fully dedicated to “basic science”—research that asks fundamental questions and generates foundational knowledge. In a healthy science ecosystem, this knowledge naturally flows into translational, clinical, and pharmaceutical sectors, enabling new technologies and treatments that improve our quality of life. Innovations like cancer immunotherapy, CRISPR gene editing, and GLP-1 weight loss drugs are now household names, but they all got their start as basic discoveries in a lab. The issue is that science funding has increasingly prioritized the later stages of research and commercialization, leaving foundational science more vulnerable than ever. If foundational discoveries are the source of tomorrow's breakthroughs, what happens when the river runs dry?

Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited AI expertise in industrial fields such as factories, medical, and shipbuilding, providing them with a significant boost. ETRI announced that it has released the core technology of MLOps tool, which automatically generates neural networks based on no-code and automates the deployment process, as open source on GitHub.

On November 8, 2025, the Faculty of Education at East China Normal University hosted a grand ceremony to present the second Global Award for Innovation in Education Research Methods. Five distinguished scholars—Ruth Hayhoe, Stephen Raudenbush, Manabu Sato, Shanmai Wang, and Rupert Wegerif—from Canada, the United States, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom were honored with this year’s award.