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Sustainable Plastics from Plants: 10/22/2025 5:55:48 AM; As a by-product from the wood and paper industries, millions of tonnes of lignin – which provides an important support function in the cells of woody plants – are accumulated worldwide each year.
Moeve, the Consejo de Colegios Oficiales de Ingenieros Industriales, and Bettergy join forces to streamline the generation of Energy Saving Certificates (CAE): 10/22/2025 3:01:03 AM; • The partnership between these three entities will establish a genuine framework of collaboration to boost these certificates and generate new job opportunities in the sector • A CAE is an electronic document that certifies energy savings equivalent to 1 kWh over a one-year period, enabling financial returns Moeve, the Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de …
The Grateful Ducks Collection Honors Decades of Grateful Dead History at the University of Oregon: 10/22/2025 12:17:21 AM; What to know • The Grateful Ducks collection honors nearly 60 years of connection between the Grateful Dead, whose genre-defying sound and psychedelia redefined American music, and Eugene, the birthplace of Nike and home to the University of Oregon.
Saman Amarasinghe Earns ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award: 10/20/2025 2:37:26 AM; ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society have named Saman Amarasinghe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the recipient of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award.
BFC Announces 2025/26 BFC Foundation Scholarship Recipients: 10/15/2025 5:10:30 AM; The British Fashion Council (BFC) is proud to announce the recipients of its 2025/26 BFC Foundation BA and MA Scholarships, an initiative that not only funds education but fuels the future of British creativity.
New fellowship framework to strengthen UK research and innovation: 10/14/2025 1:49:57 PM; Supporting talent through collective funding UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced the launch of a new fellowship investment framework.
Exceptional researchers named in second cohort of Royal Society Career Development Fellowships: 10/13/2025 1:15:22 PM; Eight exceptional early career researchers have been announced as the second cohort of Royal Society Career Development Fellows (CDFs), a pilot scheme aimed at addressing underrepresentation in UK STEM academia.
A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down: 10/13/2025 6:45:31 AM; For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that could help treat a disease such as fragile X syndrome.
Waterloo researchers awarded more than $4.3 million: 10/13/2025 6:35:17 AM; University of Waterloo researchers have received more than $4.3 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), a non-profit corporation that support research infrastructure through the John R.
Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: 10/9/2025 11:35:07 AM; The Royal Society offers its congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025, including Royal Society Fellows Professor Susumu Kitagawa FRS and Professor Richard Robson FRS.
Engineered “natural killer” cells could help fight cancer: 10/9/2025 8:14:48 AM; One of the newest weapons that scientists have developed against cancer is a type of engineered immune cell known as CAR-NK (natural killer) cells. Similar to CAR-T cells, these cells can be programmed to attack cancer cells.
International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science: 10/9/2025 8:02:32 AM; The UK Metascience Unit is run jointly by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The unit has announced details of a cohort of 29 early career researchers receiving funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.
California Community Colleges & Nectir Announce Pilot Expansion to Bring Educational AI Assistants to 2.1 million students: 10/6/2025 10:05:03 AM; Today, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (Chancellor’s Office) and Nectir announced a systemwide partnership that will make Nectir’s FERPA-compliant AI learning assistants available to students and staff across the system’s 116 campuses.
CSU Pueblo Launches Colorado’s First Direct Admissions Program with Denver Public Schools: 10/3/2025 6:09:13 PM; Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo) signed an agreement with Denver Public Schools to extend its groundbreaking direct admission program to Denver high school students, making CSU Pueblo the first university in Colorado to offer this innovative approach to college access.
A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries: 10/3/2025 1:42:36 PM; At the heart of all lithium-ion batteries is a simple reaction: Lithium ions dissolved in an electrolyte solution “intercalate” or insert themselves into a solid electrode during battery discharge.
UK-Australia expands Indigenous space education programme: 10/3/2025 1:34:16 PM; This collaboration marks a significant milestone in international space education cooperation and represents the first expansion of the National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) programme beyond NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Knight Foundation Invests Over $6 million in East San José with Historic Grant for La Placita at Mexican Heritage Plaza: 10/2/2025 9:34:58 AM; The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a historic investment of over $6 million to support La Placita, a transformative community development project in East San José.
MIT cognitive scientists reveal why some sentences stand out from others: 10/1/2025 9:16:08 AM; “You still had to prove yourself.” “Every cloud has a blue lining!” Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember a few minutes from now? If you guessed the second, you’re probably correct.
Mayank Golechha Wins Viasat: Space for Good India Challenge 2025 with Superconducting Electromagnetic Rings in Space Project: 9/30/2025 6:46:07 AM; Viasat Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, announced Mayank Golechha from BITS Pilani as the winner of its India edition of the Viasat: Space for Good 2025 initiative, a groundbreaking STEM innovation challenge for students. Bhoomi Raiyani from Nirma University and Arunteja Jarupula from IIT Kanpur were the runners-up in this highly competitive challenge.
Improving the workplace of the future: 9/24/2025 11:22:05 AM; Whitney Zhang ’21 believes in the importance of valuing workers regardless of where they fit into an organizational chart. Zhang is a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Economics studying labor economics.