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Texas A&M chemist wins NSF CAREER Award

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Alison Altman is using high-pressure chemistry to rewrite the rules of the periodic table—work that just earned her an NSF CAREER Award.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Colorado forests are releasing more carbon than they capture each year

Colorado State University
Reports and Proceedings

Colorado’s forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees – mostly due to insects and disease – have caused the state’s forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, according to a Colorado State Forest Service report.

Funder: State of Colorado

Engineering biological reaction crucibles to rapidly produce proteins

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, such as antibiotics. The technique could be a boon to industries that use bacteria to produce a wide range of products such as pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals and biofuels.

Journal: Nature Chemistry
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NIH/National Institutes of Health

JSCAI article at THT 2025 sets the standard for training pathways in interventional heart failure

Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Interventional heart failure (IHF) has rapidly evolved as a critical subspecialty within cardiology at the crossroads of advanced heart failure and interventional cardiology. The increasing complexity of patient care—spanning both pharmacological treatments and an expanding array of device-based therapies—has underscored the urgent need for a standardized approach to training and career development in this field.

That’s the message from experts in a comprehensive review, “Charting the Course for Careers in Interventional Heart Failure: Training, Challenges, Future Directions,” highlighted at Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics (THT) 2025 in Boston, MA. Co-published in JSCAI, the article highlights and addresses training gaps to advance the specialty, with an eye toward enabling future trainees to drive innovation and improve outcomes for patients with complex heart failure.

Journal: Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
Meeting: THT 2025: Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics

‘Smaller and better’: Rice research uncovers performance sweet spot for relaxor nanomaterial

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Rice materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics — materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, actuators and nanoelectronics.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DOE/US Department of Energy

New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks

University of Rochester
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Rochester have engineered a new form of QR codes that can protect smartphone users from QR code-based phishing attacks by signaling if users are being directed to a safe link or a potential scam. The technology is outlined in a new study published in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy.

Journal: IEEE Security & Privacy
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Presidential awards spotlight naval research excellence

Naval Research Laboratory
Business Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An alternative energy mechanical engineer, two aerospace engineers, and a corrosion research engineer received the highest honor bestowed to early career U.S. government scientists and engineers.