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Frustration incorporated: Revealing a natural strategy for making 'superior' materials

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mathematical models developed at the University of Michigan show how mismatched geometries can lead to fascinating complexity and enhance material properties like strength and toughness.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Chatbot opens computational chemistry to nonexperts

Emory University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A web platform developed at Emory University uses a chatbot to enable any chemist — including undergraduate chemistry majors — to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through chatting.

Journal: Chemical Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

CAS and Cleveland Clinic collaborate to accelerate research through advanced AI and quantum computing

Cleveland Clinic
Business Announcement

Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH, April 7, 2025 – CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific content and knowledge management, and Cleveland Clinic, an academic health system with a global footprint, announced plans for a strategic collaboration that will unite the organizations’ unique expertise, technology, and data capabilities to fuel clinical research.

During the Cleveland Discovery & Innovation Forum, an event highlighting cutting-edge healthcare and life sciences research, the two global organizations announced that their collaboration’s first strategic focus area will be aiming to advance research on health, wellness, and healthy aging.

Clockwork, just for antibiotic resistance?

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) show this is an auxiliary function. By maintaining basal levels of genetic activity when the network is in its OFF state, these genes ensure the bacteria remain fit and adaptable to their highly variable environment in the gut. The findings were published in PNAS.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Austrian Science Fund

The thalamus: A potential therapeutic target for neurodevelopmental disorders

Boston Children's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Despite being the brain’s central relay hub, the thalamus has been underexplored. New work shows that the thalamus can update its own connections, independently of the cortex.

Journal: Neuron

Tulane researchers use AI to improve diagnosis of drug-resistant infections

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tulane University scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to faster and more effective treatments and help mitigate the rise of drug-resistant infections, a growing global health crisis.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, Lavin-Bernick Award of Tulane University

Transparency in government is good for global health

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When are you most forthcoming with life updates? And when are you the most transparent about exactly what those updates are? For most folks — show of hands, please — it’s when things are going well. Sharing our wins is in our nature; our losses, typically, not so much.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences