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26-May-2026

Manchester researchers secure £1.3m to transform recycling of complex waste

University of Manchester
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Manchester has been awarded over £1.3 million to develop technologies that could recover valuable materials from hard-to-recycle waste including disposable vapes and cars.

26-May-2026

The economic cost of war in Gaza

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Remote sensing quantifies the destruction of both infrastructure and economic activity from the war in Gaza. Satellite-based data reveals that more than three quarters of Gaza’s economy has been wiped out since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

26-May-2026

Unstable software tests cause issues that spread across projects

Kyushu University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Flaky tests—automated checks that produce inconsistent results—are a persistent issue in software development, wasting time and computational resources. Researchers from Kyushu University analyzed 649 projects in the OpenStack ecosystem and found that over half were affected by flakiness that often spreads across projects. They identified cross-project flakiness caused by an unstable test affecting multiple projects and inconsistent flakiness as key phenomena.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement, Inamori Research Institute for Science

26-May-2026

Liver pressure monitoring using ultrasound microbubbles

Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Portal hypertension, a serious complication of cirrhosis caused by increased blood pressure in the portal vein, can lead to life-threatening conditions. However, the current gold-standard diagnostic method is invasive and costly. Now, researchers have explored the use of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS), a microbubble-based imaging technique, as a safer alternative. Reviewing multiple clinical studies, they found that CEUS measurements closely matched conventional pressure assessments and could help doctors diagnose, monitor, and manage portal hypertension noninvasively.

Funder: Key Research and Development Program Project of Guangxi, Natural Science Foundation Project of Guangxi, Youth Fund project of Guangxi Hospital Division of The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen, Health Commission of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

26-May-2026

The hidden impacts of scuba-diving tourism on coral reefs

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scuba-diving tourism, which is widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs, is causing frequent and often hidden damage to fragile marine ecosystems.

Journal: Conservation Letters
Funder: Princeton University, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

26-May-2026

Researchers at Nagoya Institute of Technology reveal new mixing guidelines for dense suspensions

Nagoya Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Efficient mixing of dense solid–liquid suspensions is essential across many industries, yet conventional mixing design rules often fail at high particle concentrations. A recent study at Nagoya Institute of Technology challenges traditional mixing methods and shows that placing the impeller near the solid–liquid interface lowers the minimum speed required to keep particles suspended in dense suspensions. These findings offer new strategies for improving energy efficiency and mixing outcomes for high-density suspensions.

Journal: Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

26-May-2026

Insect wing identifying app to tackle tropical disease threat

Aberystwyth
Business Announcement

A mobile app that identifies disease-carrying insects from their wing patterns is being developed as part of a project using AI to help diagnose tropical diseases.

26-May-2026

CityUHK discovers revolutionary surface design to transform thermal management and enables frictionless systems

Communications and Institutional Research Office, City University of Hong Kong
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Professor Steven Wang, Associate Vice-President (Resources Planning) and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Energy and Environment, has designed a revolutionary capillary structure that can trigger the Leidenfrost effect, offering a practical solution for the temperature-regulated Leidenfrost effect without requiring complex surface engineering.

Journal: Nature Physics

26-May-2026

Acteoside mitigates hepatic ischemia‑reperfusion injury by targeting CMPK2‑mediated redox metabolism

HEP Data Cooperation Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study identifies CMPK2 as a key driver of hepatic ischemia‑reperfusion injury (HIRI) by triggering mitochondrial redox imbalance, free fatty acid overload, and mtDNA‑driven sterile inflammation. The natural compound acteoside (ACT) directly targets CMPK2, blocks IRF1‑driven transcription, promotes mitophagic degradation of CMPK2, and interrupts the vicious inflammatory cycle, offering a safe and translatable protective strategy for liver surgery and transplantation.