PARIS – UNESCO and the Fondation L’Oréal on Tuesday named five women researchers as laureates of the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards, recognizing their pioneering work in life and environmental sciences. The…
New Study Reveals the Cause of Sensory Changes…
A research team led by Professor Kyuhyung Kim at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has confirmed the mechanism of behavioral changes when an animal feels starved or fed. Animals in a starved condition…
Making medicine from crop waste
Researchers have identified a one-step process to easily convert a plant-based sugar into a chemical compound, which can then be used to manufacture other substances, including a natural pharmaceutical used to treat conditions such as…
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Technology Project
NASA has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft in just three years. This critical milestone comes after a rigorous review, Key Decision…
‘Magnetic topological insulator’ makes its own magnetic field
A team of U.S. and Korean physicists has found the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can become a magnetic topological insulator even when it is not placed in a magnetic field. "Many different…