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Heterogeneously integrated micro-ring with SnS2 for dual-functional optical modulation and photodetection

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.260042.

Journal: Opto-Electronic Advances

Light-perception-based interactive control of an underwater digital twin hand

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250311.

Journal: Opto-Electronic Advances

Unlocking home-based nocturnal health management: A fiber-optic approach for early detection of cardiorespiratory rhythm disorders

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250334.

Journal: Opto-Electronic Advances

Parallel bright-field and multi-order edge imaging via wide field-of-view trichannel metalens

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250306.

Journal: Opto-Electronic Advances

Cavity-assisted nonlocal metasurfaces for momentum-space broadband-operational optical vortice generation with maximum efficiency approaching 80%

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250296.

Journal: Opto-Electronic Advances

Plants know when to grow - and when to hold back, study finds

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism that allows plants to carefully coordinate the formation and growth of new leaf parts. The study shows that the hormone auxin regulates different phases in organ formation by oppositely affecting the activity of another hormone, gibberellin, to trigger the formation of new leaf structures before reversing course and boosting gibberellin to drive their expansion. The findings offer new insight into how plants build complex organs and could eventually help scientists develop crops with improved growth and architecture.

Journal: Development

Kogakuin University and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad launch collaborative research on next-generation multifunctional glass-ceramic materials for energy applications

Kogakuin University of Technology and Engineering
Business Announcement

Kogakuin University (Japan) and the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad (India) have initiated a collaborative research framework to advance the development and fundamental understanding of next-generation multifunctional glass-ceramic materials for energy-related applications.

Photo-based calorie-tracking apps may underestimate energy in meals

American Society for Nutrition
Reports and Proceedings

Thanks to advances in AI, popular calorie-tracking apps can now use a photo of a meal to estimate the nutritional content of what you’re eating. Although these apps are convenient, a new study found that four photo-based apps underestimated the calories and fat content of meals by about a third.

Meeting: NUTRITION 2026

Can an AI knowledge base teach medicine? A VTE Education study shows strong performance in standardized tasks, but creative test writing still needs teacher oversight

Society of China University Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Venous thromboembolism education involves complex clinical reasoning, rapidly updated evidence, and high cognitive load. Researchers from Peking University First Hospital and collaborators built a VTE intelligent knowledge base using retrieval-augmented generation, combining evidence-based information, expert experience, and de-identified real-world cases. In a learner pathway, users rated the system positively for clinical decision support, knowledge question answering, and resource recommendation, with median satisfaction scores of 4.00 across dimensions. In a teacher pathway, however, the system showed task-dependent performance: it provided some support for convergent tasks such as lesson planning, but performed less well in creative tasks such as assisted exam item generation. The study suggests that future AI tools for medical education should move beyond single-topic knowledge bases toward a broader knowledge base matrix covering clinical, teaching, and research needs.

Funder: The Innovative Teaching and Learning Program 3.0 of Peking University, The Educational Research Project of Peking University First Hospital