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Call for Nominations: The 2026 R&D 100 Awards
Travel for Engineers: Barcelona and the engineering of Gaudí
Sandia National Laboratories designs porous liquids to selectively capture methane
HORIBA releases SDK for third-party control of its spectrometers and detectors
New material captures and releases CO2 in response to visible light
Ginkgo co-founder Reshma Shetty on autonomous labs, AI-designed experiments and the human side of the equation
A team of scientists and GPT-5 beat a protein cost benchmark. Here’s who did what.
Open season: OpenAI, OpenClaw and Moltbook testing the limits of autonomy
How Duke’s Amanda Randles is using digital twins to transform heart care
New method breaks down up to 99% of PFAS
The gunslinger’s dilemma: A trillion-dollar R&D arms race where collateral damage risk is unpriced
GM XFC Cell: EV battery charges from 10% to 70% in approximately 5.6 minutes | Inside the R&D 100 win
Sapio survey finds 45% of scientists using unauthorized AI tools, view ELNs as ‘glorified filing cabinets’
SLAS 2026 show floor roundup: Partnerships, kits and new categories
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Research team shows nanoparticles adhere to quantum mechanics
A research team at the University of Vienna reports quantum interference of sodium nanoparticles containing more than 7,000 atoms, using a source that can produce clusters up to about 10,000 atoms. “Intuitively, one would expect such a large lump of metal to behave like a classical particle,” lead author and doctoral student Sebastian Pedalino said…

Researchers could be one step closer to understanding the origin of matter thanks to a new study

The Milky Way is glowing: these scientists think dark matter may be the cause

Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physics for showing quantum properties could exist in large-scale systems

ORNL named on 20 R&D 100 Awards, including carbon-capture and AM tools
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The Claims Conundrum: Why Integration is the Key to Smarter Commercialisation
By Angela Lawrence, Senior Director, Real World Evidence, Symphony Health, an ICON plc company The healthcare industry sits at the center of the world’s data explosion. Nearly 30% of all global data originates from healthcare, with the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of healthcare data expected to reach 36% in 2025. For life sciences companies,…
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Parallel Bio’s embraces in-house drug development as FDA backs animal testing alternatives
After four years selling to pharma, co-founders Robert DiFazio and Juliana Hilliard are adding a new line of business: their own drugs. In 2006, a drug called TGN 1412 met every preclinical safety requirement. Clean in animal models. Clean in monkeys. Ninety minutes after six human volunteers received their first dose at a London hospital,…

R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: A closer look at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s trio of R&D 100 wins in 2025

Life sciences M&A hit $240B in 2025 as Big Pharma preps for patent cliffs

Hansoh Bio signs 32,000-sq.-ft. lab lease at Research Square in Rockville, MD

Inhaled nitric oxide could help combat antibiotic resistance
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R&D 100 winner LLNL achieves 1,000x speed boost in 3D nanofabrication
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University say they have built a two-photon lithography system that could push 3D nanofabrication toward manufacturing scale, boosting throughput by more than 1,000 times compared with commercial tools while maintaining minimum feature sizes of 113 nanometers. Two-photon lithography uses ultrafast laser pulses to harden material only at…
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R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: Energy storing and efficient air conditioner (ESEAC)
Filmed at the 63rd R&D 100 Awards in Scottsdale, Arizona, this quick interview spotlights the team behind the Energy Storing and Efficient Air Conditioner (ESEAC), an R&D 100 Award winning approach to commercial cooling that builds energy storage directly into the HVAC system. ESEAC was developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is…
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New engineered proteins could make disease tracking portable and precise
Researchers reported in Nature that they have engineered proteins to emit light in response to a combination of weak magnetic fields and pulses of energy at radio frequencies. This could set the stage for tracking proteins in the body with MRI-like instruments with less powerful magnets. The technology could allow researchers to track disease-linked proteins…
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Sandia National Laboratories designs porous liquids to selectively capture methane
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are investigating methods to capture methane from biogas, a mixture found in waste such as food scraps, manure and sewage. Biogas is a renewable energy source produced by breaking down organic matter that can be used to fuel vehicles, heat homes and generate electricity. “We are creating new types of…

New material captures and releases CO2 in response to visible light

R&D 100 red carpet recap: NETL team turns plastic waste into battery-grade graphite

R&D 100 Spotlight: Looping nylon recycles fishnets into medical grade nylon

R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: How Qnity beat the industry timeline on PFAS-free lithography
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Marktech expands large-area silicon photodiode portfolio for spectroscopy, medical diagnostics
Marktech Optoelectronics has expanded its silicon photodiode portfolio with new large-area detectors targeting optical instrumentation, spectroscopy and analytical measurement applications. The Latham, NY-based company’s new single-element and quadrant silicon photodiode devices are designed to improve signal capture, alignment tolerance, and signal-to-noise ratio in demanding optical systems. Available in multiple package styles and active area sizes,…
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Scientists find farthest galaxy ever detected
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spotted the farthest galaxy, called MoM-z14, detected to date, NASA announced last week. The galaxy existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang. In comparison, the Milky Way formed 800 million years after the Big Bang. The scientists published a paper on the galaxy in the…










































