The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially issued a new patent to Wayne State University and RediMinds Inc. of Southfield, Michigan. The patent protects a pioneering technological advancement developed in the university's laboratories.

In hopes of preventing home-exercise injuries and extending the expert guidance of coaches, researchers from Drexel University and Michigan State University have developed a prototype of a program that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze video and provide form coaching in real time.

Scientists at the SETI Institute searched for technological signals from 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our Solar System. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, the team scanned a wide range of radio frequencies for signs of extraterrestrial technology and found none, as expected based on other astronomical observations showing that the object exhibits natural comet-like composition and behavior.

“Eventually, our own Voyager spacecraft will be extraterrestrial artifacts in other stellar systems,” said Dr. Sofia Sheikh, lead author on the paper. “Given that, it is important that we understand the natural distribution of interstellar objects so that we will be able to identify any anomalies that could one day be signs of an artificial interstellar object.”

The team observed 3I/ATLAS for more than seven hours with the ATA, covering 1 to 9 gigahertz. This broad range allows scientists to search for narrowband radio signals, which are not produced by in nature and would be evidence of technology.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Yokohama City University have discovered an unexpected transport principle in artificial nanoscale molecular gates. Using self-assembled nanocubes with dynamic pores, they found that linear hydrocarbon molecules pass through the gates faster as the molecules become longer—opposite to ordinary macroscopic intuition. The study reveals that molecular transport is controlled not only by pore size but also by pore fluctuations and transient interactions at the outer surface of the gate.

Threatened plant species could be conserved by planting them "inter situ" - in wild environments outside their current geographic range - per Amazon rainforest case study

A new study suggests that, for modern Japanese speakers, two traditional, patriarchal words for “husband” (“shujin,” literally meaning “master”) and “wife” (“kanai,” “inside-the-house”) may be losing their original meanings, though men in the study evaluated both traditional and neutral words for “husband” more positively than words for “wife.” Ri Nin and Kazuo Mori of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, present these findings in the open access journal PLOS One on June 3, 2026.