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New engineered proteins could make disease tracking portable and precise
First memristor-based cellular neural network cuts power demands
New method achieves 89% defluorination of PFOA in lab tests
Research team shows nanoparticles adhere to quantum mechanics
Why experts don’t trust AI, even as nearly everyone uses it: Trust in LLMs is—lacking
MIT team uses mysterious cell structure to record genetic activity
Changes coming to the U.S. R&D tax credit
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Researchers discover new form of water
R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: How Qnity beat the industry timeline on PFAS-free lithography
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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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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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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 Spotlight: Universal GridEdge Analyzer (UGA)
Winner of an R&D 100 Award, the Universal GridEdge Analyzer (UGA) is a portable, high-speed device built to help utilities see what’s happening on the power grid in real time. Designed to move from site to site, UGA can “listen” to electrical waveforms on feeders serving neighborhoods and major loads, including solar, EV chargers, and…
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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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R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: How Qnity beat the industry timeline on PFAS-free lithography
Qnity’s UV 26GNF photoresist took home a 2025 R&D 100 Award in the Mechanical/Materials category for delivering what the semiconductor industry thought was still years away: a non-fluorine lithography material that actually improves performance. In this interview, Randal King, Qnity’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, explains how a team of about 30 scientists accomplished in…
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R&D 100 Winner Spotlight: How Qnity beat the industry timeline on PFAS-free lithography
Qnity’s UV 26GNF photoresist took home a 2025 R&D 100 Award in the Mechanical/Materials category for delivering what the semiconductor industry thought was still years away: a non-fluorine lithography material that actually improves performance. In this interview, Randal King, Qnity’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, explains how a team of about 30 scientists accomplished in…
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Researchers discover new form of water
An international research team led by scientists from the University of Rostock, CNRS-École Polytechnique in France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has discovered a previously unknown form of superionic water. The team experimentally discovered a highly electrically conductive phase at the European XFEL X-ray laser near Hamburg, Germany, and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC…
