Parking congestion, vacant properties and climate change: there is no shortage of societal problems. People often look to the government for solutions. But the government could do with some help and could make greater use of so-called ‘prize-backed competitions’, argues Louise Verboeket. In her PhD thesis, she investigated how government organisations can best use this tool from a legal perspective.
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Kidney disease is silent in its early stages, progressing without symptoms until the disease is advanced. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, in collaboration with researchers at WashU Medicine and at Texas A&M University, have been developing a minimally invasive method to improve diagnosis in earlier stages. New research from the lab of Srikan
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center will serve as the testing ground for a new $8.48 million project that could transform how AI data centers receive and manage electricity while helping prevent them from overwhelming California's power grid.
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New research from UTHealth Houston found firefighters experience measurable biological changes in their blood and urine within 24 hours of fighting a fire–changes that may help identify early cancer risk, the leading cause of death among firefighters.
by Kara Baskin August 24, 2026 Visual Arts , Climate & Sustainability , School of the Museum of Fine Arts , School of Arts and Sciences , Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Share At SMFA at Tufts, five raised garden beds along Museum Way produce something more unusual than tomatoes or zucchini: They’re growing art supplies. The fiber and dye garden brims with plants that, come fall, are harvested as pigments, inks, paper, and textiles. These include orange cosmos, Hopi black dye sunflowers, sa
Graphene is an exceptionally useful material for creating batteries, catalysts, and electronic devices. Yet producing graphene typically requires temperatures as high as 900°C, limiting energy efficiency and making structural control difficult. To make graphene production more practical, a recent study has overcome this long-standing temperature barrier. In a study published in the Journal of the
The four projects, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome , span all areas of the University and cover topics ranging from healthcare and artificial intelligence to waste management, pollution and sustainable technology. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the first of these DTPS will train the next generation of researchers to tackle the global waste crisis through interdisciplinary research and
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Machine learning doesn’t replace human intelligence, but it can outlast human endurance, which makes it a very helpful tool for chemistry and material discovery. Scientists know the machine learning models can make predictions based on the vast reams of data it is trained on, but can it take it a step further and massively scale up testing out those predictions? “We already see that AI is powerful
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LBMS marks five years as a leading cryo-EM facility, advancing biological discovery through cutting-edge imaging and collaboration.
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Researchers uncover a critical molecular switch that helps bacteria survive environmental stress and antibiotic exposure.
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Precision agriculture is revolutionizing the way farmers grow crops, lowering costs, maximizing yields, optimizing the use of irrigation water, addressing farming labor challenges and securing the supply of safe, high-quality food.
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Hydrogen gas (H₂) is widely regarded as a promising clean energy source. By weight, it stores nearly three times more energy than gasoline, and its use does not directly release carbon dioxide (CO₂). Yet most H₂ is still produced from fossil fuels through CO₂-intensive processes. Storing and transporting this energy-rich gas are also costly and technically challenging. Therefore, developing sustai
Ammonia is a cornerstone of global agriculture and a promising carrier for renewable energy storage. Yet nearly all of it is still produced via the Haber‑Bosch process, which operates above 400 °C and 200 atm, consumes about two percent of global energy, and emits large amounts of carbon dioxide. That is why finding a greener route under mild conditions has become a major challenge in chemistry an
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