15-Sep-2025 ORNL leads three INFUSE projects solving fusion challenges DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Grant and Award Announcement ORNL has been selected to lead three research collaborations with fusion industry partners as part of the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program. The awarded projects will tap ORNL’s deep expertise in fusion materials, plasma diagnostics and advanced modeling and simulation to solve practical challenges and develop new technologies to accelerate the development of fusion energy. Funder Fusion Energy Sciences
15-Sep-2025 Interactive apps, AI chatbots promote playfulness, reduce privacy concerns Penn State Peer-Reviewed Publication The more interactive a mobile app or artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is, the more playful they are perceived to be, with users letting their guard down and risking their privacy, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. Journal Behaviour and Information Technology
15-Sep-2025 When the wireless data runs dry University of Pittsburgh Grant and Award Announcement Wei Gao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, has collaborated with researchers from Peking University to develop analytical metrics to qualitatively evaluate the quality of synthetic wireless data. The researchers have created a novel framework that significantly improves the task-driven training of AI models using synthetic wireless data.
15-Sep-2025 NJIT student–faculty team wins best presentation award for ant swarm simulation New Jersey Institute of Technology Reports and Proceedings NJIT's Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor Tomer Weiss explored how the collective behavior of ants — acting like both fluids and elastic materials — can inspire breakthroughs in engineering materials, robotics and traffic control. Their simulation work, recognized at the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH conference, highlights how studying biological swarm dynamics may lead to innovations such as self-healing concrete and smarter multi-agent systems. Meeting ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
15-Sep-2025 Wheat disease losses total $2.9 billion across the United States and Canada between 2018 and 2021 American Phytopathological Society Peer-Reviewed Publication A new multiyear study has revealed that between 2018 and 2021, wheat diseases caused the loss of approximately 560 million bushels—valued at US$2.9 billion, or $18.10 per acre, in farmer revenue—across 29 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. Journal Plant Health Progress Funder Grain Farmers of Ontario, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
15-Sep-2025 Construction secrets of honeybees: Study reveals how bees build hives in tricky spots University of Colorado at Boulder Peer-Reviewed Publication In a new study, CU researchers found that honeybees used adaptive strategies to build stable, usable honeycomb on irregular and imperfect surfaces. Journal PLOS Biology
15-Sep-2025 Cheaper, sustainable plant biomanufacturing on Earth and in space University of California - Davis Grant and Award Announcement Researchers at UC Davis have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments both on Earth and in space. Funder U.S. National Science Foundation