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Neutrinos, discovered in 1956, are small, fundamental particles that can pass through objects without interacting with matter. The particles interact only through gravity and the weak nuclear force, meaning they can pass through massive objects with an extremely small chance of interacting with any atoms. Neutrinos are little understood, despite being the most abundant particle…

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,…

A clinical trial of an AI system at the Affiliated People’s Hospital of Ningbo University in Ningbo, China, has detected more than 20 cases of pancreatic cancer, 14 of which were in early stages, since the trial started in November 2024. Early detection is essential for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, which has a five-year…

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…

Researchers at Chonnam National University in South Korea have engineered an enzyme cascade that converts formaldehyde into L-glyceraldehyde, a chiral compound used as a building block in pharmaceutical synthesis and in routes to specialty sugars. The one-pot process runs in water under mild conditions and reached roughly 94% conversion efficiency, pointing to a potential approach…

For 139 years, the Coca-Cola formula has been the gold standard of trade-secret-based intellectual property. A trade secret so guarded it became modern mythology. But this January, a YouTuber with a borrowed mass spectrometer technology offered a recipe that he says is a near replica that one can make at home. Zach Armstrong (aka “LabCoatz”)…

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…

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…

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…