Five early-career scientists have been named recipients of the 2026 BioOne Ambassador Award, an annual honor recognizing early-career scientists who excel at communicating their work to broader audiences, fostering public understanding and appreciation of science.

Now in its ninth year, the award highlights rising talent within the BioOne community of 157 scientific societies and publishing partners. BioOne Ambassadors are nominated by BioOne publishing partners, and each winning author receives a $1,000 award and has their work recognized in the BioOne Ambassador Award showcase.

Researchers have proposed a Fourier graph neural network for estimating the state of health of lithium-ion batteries while simultaneously considering spatial and temporal feature relationships. The model, called FourierGNN, is designed to improve online battery health estimation by capturing both inter-series dynamics and intra-series dependencies in battery degradation data.