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Air frying fatty food better for air quality than alternatives – if you clean it, study says

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cooking even very fatty food in an air fryer produces fewer airborne particles than other forms of frying, according to a new study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal ES&T Air, led by academics from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Journal: ACS ES&T Air

Low-cost system turns smartphones into emergency radiation detectors

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A low-cost, portable radiation dosimetry system uses a smartphone and radiochromic film to provide immediate on-site dose assessments of radiation.

Journal: Radiation Measurements

Turning sewage waste into a smart sensor for tracking antibiotic pollution

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Antibiotics that save lives can also become hidden environmental threats once they leave hospitals and households. A new study reports an innovative solution that transforms sewage waste into a low cost, eco friendly sensor capable of detecting trace levels of the widely used antibiotic trimethoprim in water, urine, and pharmaceutical samples.

Journal: Biochar

Biochar emerges as a key material linking clean water, carbon capture, and renewable energy

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biochar, a carbon rich material made by heating agricultural and forestry waste under low oxygen conditions, has long been valued for improving soil health. Now, a new review reveals that biochar is rapidly evolving into a powerful multifunctional material with the potential to tackle some of the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, from water pollution and nutrient loss to carbon emissions and clean energy production.

Global health impacts of plastics systems could double by 2040

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The adverse health impacts associated with emissions across the full life cycle of plastics could double by 2040 unless immediate action is taken, new research suggests.

Journal: The Lancet Planetary Health
Funder: Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, French National Research Agency

The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward from confined spheroids.

Journal: Nature Physics

Excellence and impact recognized by world’s preeminent computing society

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to the field. This year’s honorees hail from 14 countries and were chosen from among ACM’s global membership of more than 100,000 computing professionals

New data show reduced overall PFAS exposures in subarctic ocean

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pilot whale samples from 1986-2023 show that legacy PFAS are declining in the open ocean. Newer PFAS remain a major unknown and may be accumulating in near-source environments.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

From experience-based simulations to predictive science

Chuo University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Professor Hirotoshi Mori (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University), together with Nichika Ozawa (first-year Ph.D. student at Ochanomizu University) and Assistant Professor Nahoko Kuroki of Ochanomizu University, has proposed a new design principle for QM/MM (quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics) simulations. The approach enables objective and automatic determination of the quantum-mechanical region based on electronic-state changes, addressing a long-standing challenge in multiscale molecular simulations. This work was published online in Advanced Science on December 23, 2025 (JST), an international journal that features conceptually innovative and interdisciplinary breakthroughs across materials science, life science, chemistry, and physics. This article will be published in issue 17 (March 23rd) of Advanced Science, and the cover design suggestion has been selected to be featured on a frontispiece in it. A frontispiece is a full-page image (similar to a cover) placed at the beginning of this article that highlights outstanding results.

Journal: Advanced Science
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences