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Innovative microneedle technology for diabetic wound healing

Higher Education Press

Imagine a tiny patch that could heal stubborn wounds with just a bit of light! Scientists have developed microneedles that release healing agents when exposed to near-infrared light. These innovative patches show remarkable potential for treating diabetic wounds by reducing inflammation and promoting faster healing. Discover how this breakthrough could revolutionize wound care in our latest report.

Journal: Engineering

From genetics to AI: Integrated approaches to decoding human language in the brain

Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Meeting Announcement

Learning French, reading the latest Andy Weir novel, hanging out with friends for St. Patrick’s Day — language is central to all these everyday activities. Seemingly effortless from childhood, language, it turns out, is quite complex, not constrained to one set of genes or one region in the brain. Cognitive neuroscientists are now using a diverse arsenal of tools, including novel genetic analyses and AI, to gain insights into both healthy and disordered communication across individuals, as will be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Meeting: 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Poultry processing robotics advances with ChicGrasp

University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle chickens. Using an advanced imitation learning algorithm and camera perceptions, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed ChicGrasp, a dual-jaw robotic gripper with pinchers that can grasp a chicken carcass by the legs, lift and hang it on a shackle conveyor to be moved on for further processing. Results of the study behind the development of ChicGrasp were published in Advanced Robotics Research. All computer-aided design files, code and datasets from the project were released as open source, providing what the team describes as a reproducible benchmark for agricultural robotics and robot learning.

Journal: Advanced Robotics Research
Funder: National Institute of Food and Agriculture

The AI that taught itself: USC researchers show how artificial intelligence can learn what it never knew

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering was accepted at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2026, taking place March 12-15 suggests that with the right method in place, an AI model can dramatically improve its performance in territory it was barely trained on, pushing well past what its training data alone would ever allow.

Q&A: Gassing up bioengineered materials for wound healing

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and surgeons at Penn State have created a new class of biomaterial that can better support tissue regeneration. The material — based on a foam-like compound known as aerogel — offers improved cell infiltration, which may help rapidly form new blood vessels and regenerate damaged tissue in the body.

Journal: Biomaterials

University of Houston physicists break superconductivity temperature record

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) and the department of physics at the University of Houston have broken the temperature record for superconductivity at ambient pressure — a breakthrough that could eventually lead to more efficient ways to generate, transmit and store energy.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Innovative fiber-based strain sensors for wearable electronics

Higher Education Press

Discover a groundbreaking leap in smart tech: a new flexible sensor that blends silver and polyurethane for dual superpowers—ultra-sensitive detection or rock-solid stability. Developed via innovative wet spinning and metal deposition, it captures tiny movements for health trackers while staying reliable in smart clothes. Plus, it heats up, fights bacteria and blocks electromagnetic waves. This game-changing fiber is set to revolutionize wearables, making next-gen health and daily tech smarter than ever.

Journal: Engineering