A research team led by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic has uncovered new insight into how the brain senses movement. Their findings, published in Science Advances, could potentially help improve sensation and movement for prosthetic limbs.

By combining data from the world’s only two neural-machine interfaces designed to restore kinesthetic sensation - or the sense of movement - in upper limb prosthetics, the researchers found that the brain appears to process this information not as isolated signals, but as coordinated hand grasp movement patterns, or “synergies.” 

The researchers will use the FWF’s science awards, worth one million euros each, to identify quantum materials for future technologies and to ensure that autonomous AI systems are trustworthy.

The Brain Health for Economic Resilience Commission, convened in collaboration with Nature Medicine, was announced at the Texas Brain Economy Summit.

MIT researchers developed a computational technique for designing buildings, bridges, and other structures that can easily be built on time and budget while also using less material.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE CS, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, have announced that Srinivas Devadas is the recipient of the 2026 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Devadas, the Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is cited for pioneering contributions to secure architectures with broad industrial and academic impact.

The University of Central Florida study is quickly addressing one of virtual reality’s most persistent barriers as the first large-scale remote VR study using VERA, an innovative National Science Foundation-funded platform.

Researchers have developed a water-responsive polyvinyl alcohol-based film reinforced with a chitosan-pectin hybrid polysaccharide that maintains mechanical stability under high humidity and transforms into a high-performance adhesive upon water activation and hot-pressing, offering a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based films and formaldehyde-containing adhesives.

Trevor van Mierlo, DBA, caps off a four-part exclusive series exploring the current and future landscape of digital behavioral health interventions with JMIR Publication's latest: “You Can’t Launch This: Trust as Infrastructure in Digital Behavioral Health”.