Chemical giant BASF has started up what it calls the world’s first industrial-scale production plant for 3D-printed catalysts, marking a shift in how chemical processes can be optimized at scale.
The new facility at Ludwigshafen brings…
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HPV self-test boosts cervical cancer screening 'across the board,' study confirms
Making human papillomavirus (HPV) self-testing available to all women increases the number of people screened for cervical cancer, a new study led by researchers from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has confirmed. The study,…
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OstraBot hits 467 mm/min, becomes fastest swimming biohybrid robot yet
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a new way to make lab-grown muscles stronger by letting them train themselves, removing a major limitation in biohybrid robotics.
The team built a platform where two…
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Peek inside NASA’s Mars habitat where humans train for life on the red planet
NASA has offered a sneak peek inside its Mars simulation habitat where four volunteers have now spent 150 days isolated from the outside world.
By living within the confines of the 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat at the Johnson…
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Photothermal solar assisted Madhuca diethyl ether fuel processing for LHR engines with AI-based performance and yield prediction
Arya, I. et al. Current trends and future prospects of nanotechnology in biofuel production. Catalysts 11, 1–19 (2021).
Kumar, Y. & Sangwai, J. S. A Perspective on the Effect of…
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Workplace nature breaks may cut stress, study finds
With 76% of adults now reporting stress levels that impede daily function, a new Cornell study points to a low-cost intervention hiding in plain sight: nature. The study, published in March 2026 in ScienceDirect, found that changes or…
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Comparative evaluation of activated sludge and electrocoagulation for microplastics removal from sewage
Thacharodi, A. et al. Microplastics in the environment: A critical overview on its fate, toxicity, implications, management, and bioremediation strategies. J. Environ. Manag. 349, 119433 (2023).
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Nanophotonic neural probes for in vivo photostimulation, electrophysiology, and microfluidic delivery
Neural probe design, fabrication, and characterization
The neural probe chips were fabricated on 200-mm diameter Si wafers at Advanced Micro Foundry using a visible-spectrum Si photonics platform. The fabrication process is illustrated in Fig. 2a….
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Adipogenic transdifferentiation reprograms EMT-high PDAC cells into a post-mitotic adipocyte-like state and limits metastasis
Siegel RL, Kratzer TB, Giaquinto AN, Sung H, Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2025. CA Cancer J Clin. 2025;75:10–45.
Dreyer SB, Beer P, Hingorani SR, Biankin AV. Improving outcomes of patients with…
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Backpropagation-free spiking neural networks with the forward–forward algorithm
Han, B. & Roy, K. Deep Spiking Neural Network: Energy Efficiency Through Time Based Coding. European Conference on Computer Vision, 388–404 (2020).
Guerguiev, J., Lillicrap, T. P., & Richards, B. A. Towards deep learning with segregated…
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