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Reusable catheters a safe choice that could save NHS millions, study finds

University of Southampton
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Reusable urinary catheters are just as safe as single-use ones and do not increase the risk of UTIs, scientists have found. By switching to reusable options, patients used 35 per cent fewer antibiotics, which could save the NHS millions and significantly reduce plastic waste.

Journal: International Journal of Nursing Studies
Funder: National Institute for Health Research

Seeing deeper without losing detail

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

NIH-funded UTA research aims to improve deep-tissue optical imaging for clearer diagnosis

Texas Tech receives $4.5 million grant to advance semiconductor research

Texas Tech University
Grant and Award Announcement

Engineering faculty will pursue development of wide/ultrawide bandgap semiconductors for use in harsh environments, to improve communications and more.

Extreme heat events are killing Gentoo penguins in Argentina, but the birds are shifting their breeding season earlier and therefore reducing the impact of potentially deadly hot days

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Extreme heat events are killing Gentoo penguins in Argentina, but the birds are shifting their breeding season earlier and therefore reducing the impact of potentially deadly hot days

Journal: PLOS One

Robotic ‘matter’ flows, adapts through mechanical intelligence

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cornell engineers have developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes and adapts to its environment without centralized control.

Journal: Science Robotics

Celebrating the standouts: Changemakers honored by the world’s largest computing association

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today recognized individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Spanning diverse disciplines, the 2025 award recipients were selected by their peers for energizing a thriving community that makes a real impact on both their colleagues and the wider world. This year’s awardees drove advancements in learning tools for computer science education, technology policy, and broadening participation in computing—among other areas.

New report: U.S. Government is using AI more, but still has a long way to go

Brookings Institution
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the past decade, the federal government has made the adoption of AI a priority. Both the Biden administration and the two Trump administrations have emphasized the need for federal government AI adoption to improve service delivery, foster data-driven analysis, promote national competitiveness, and strengthen national security. New research from the Brookings Institution has found that while the scope and pace of this adoption have accelerated over the past three years, AI use across the federal government remains concentrated in a few large agencies.

FIU patent targets viruses with a breakthrough from linseed oil

Florida International University
Business Announcement

A common vegetable oil may hold the key to fighting some of the world’s most dangerous viruses. FIU received a U.S. patent for a linseed oil polyol-derived compound shown to inhibit viral infections including HIV and SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), as well as bacterial infections causing strep and staph.

Food and drink litter dominates global plastic pollution

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by the University of Plymouth (UK) brought together and evaluated more than 5,000 beach litter surveys to reveal the dominant items of marine litter across all seven continents, nine ocean systems, 13 regional seas and 112 nations, a combined area representing 86% of the global population.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: UK Research and Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund