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30-Jul-2025

Tech tool offers improved assurances for small business contracts

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have demonstrated a new tool to improve the security of small-scale business transactions with the goal of helping ensure that businesses are paid and customers get what they pay for. The tool, which relies on blockchain-powered smart contracts, essentially serves the same function that letters of credit provide for large companies.

30-Jul-2025

AAAS announces addition of Civil Engineering Sciences to Science Partner Journal Program

Science Partner Journals
Business Announcement

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is pleased to announce its partnership with the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES) and Tsinghua University (THU) to publish Civil Engineering Sciences as a Science Partner Journal.

30-Jul-2025

A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field

ETH Zurich
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably back in its early days when its inner core was fully liquid – unlike it is today. A team of geophysicists has used a simulation to show that this was highly likely.

Journal: Nature

30-Jul-2025

Carbon fiber boosts dry-processed battery performance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers have overcome a barrier to using a more affordable, dry process for manufacturing the lithium-ion batteries used in vehicles and electronic devices. The resulting batteries provide greater electricity flow and reduced risk of overheating.

Journal: Journal of Power Sources

30-Jul-2025

Seeing the unseen: New hyperspectral-metabolomics pipeline accelerates salt-tolerant crop screening

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

A research team has developed a powerful two-stage screening pipeline that integrates hyperspectral imaging and metabolomic profiling to rapidly and accurately identify salt-tolerant crop mutants before visible symptoms appear.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

30-Jul-2025

Most US adults have hearts older than their actual age. How old is yours?

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Most U.S. adults have a “heart age” several years older than their chronological age — sometimes by more than a decade. And that gap is wider among men and among those with lower incomes or education or who identify as Black or Hispanic, according to a new study led by Northwestern Medicine.

Journal: JAMA Cardiology

30-Jul-2025

NYU Tandon researchers develop AI agent that solves cybersecurity challenges autonomously

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Reports and Proceedings

A research team from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi and other universities has developed an AI agent capable of autonomously solving complex cybersecurity challenges.

Meeting: International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML)