Valencia, Spain will host Targeting Extracellular Vesicles 2025 on October 15–16, uniting global experts to explore how extracellular vesicles (EVs) are revolutionizing diagnostics and therapeutics. With the theme “Bridging Two Frontiers: Mitochondria & Microbiota”, the event will reveal how EVs connect cellular energy metabolism and microbiome science, two key systems influencing human health. 
Sessions will feature cutting-edge research, clinical applications, and technology showcases aimed at breakthroughs in cancer, neurodegeneration, metabolic disorders, and immune health. Abstracts are invited until September 10, 2025.

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA  Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy, researchers discovered that the long sought cubic polymeric nitrogen was synthesized using lithium azide as a precursor. The work achieves the quantitative synthesis of cg-N with a higher mass content at near ambient pressure, owing to the inclusion of the lightest metal, lithium in the product. With respect to the fact that lithium has excellent ignition performance, the approach is promising for applications of polymeric nitrogen as a high energy density material.

To study growth-defence trade-offs in the context of metabolism in crops, scientists from the Universities of Potsdam and Erlangen, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, and the National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, have generated the genome-scale metabolic model potato-GEM. The first large-scale metabolic reconstruction of its kind presents a useful resource to breed plant varieties with improved stress tolerance and high yields in the future.

Researchers at EPFL and Harvard University have engineered a chip that can convert between electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz and optical ranges on the same device. Their integrated design could enable the development of devices for ultrafast telecommunications, ranging, spectroscopy, and computing.

Researchers have developed stretchable sweat-activated yarn batteries with stable power output during dynamic stretching. Integrated into textiles, they could power wearable electronics like headlights and pedometers during exercise.

A new peer-reviewed study led by a national team of psychologists and public health experts found elevated rates ofposttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as major depression in communities affected by the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio,train derailment. The study offers one of the first large-scale diagnostic snapshots of mental health outcomes following thetechnological disaster.