The Politecnico di Milano, coordinator of the WORLD – Waste Oils RecycLe and Development project, proposes an innovative, circular and sustainable process to turn used vegetable oil into a valuable resource.  The study was published by the British Royal Society of Chemistry in the prestigious international journal RSC Sustainability and was rewarded for its originality by being featured on the cover.

An openly available generative AI tool can interpret millions of cells in human tissues in hours, revealing new insights and allowing researchers and clinicians to ask questions about conditions such as cancer.    

Teenage friendships happen online as much as they do offline. The final study of a research project investigating the dynamics of adolescents’ friendships in association with their social media use examined how teens’ perception of social media norms and features could contribute to digital stress, which might result in conflicts among friends. The results showed that continuous disappointment from unmet expectations, such as friends not responding to or engaging with posts, was the strongest predictor of friendship feuds after a few months.

Previous exposure to stress differentially impacts how male and female rats behave following combat-related traumatic brain injury.