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It’s official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.Jun LouJun Lou (Photo by Jeff…

As many as 29 percent of students experienced at least one form of housing deprivation in the previous 12 months, according to the Youth19 Housing Deprivation Brief from the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington.The…

With much of our time spent on online platforms, which are increasingly influential in people’s daily lives, how they are regulated is becoming a vitally important issue.Now high-profile research conducted as part of the Arts &…

Lou Brown, a longtime UW–Madison faculty member and one of the most influential scholars and advocates for students with severe disabilities, died on May 1, 2021.Brown, a professor emeritus who is widely considered to have revolutionized…

Aerosol reductions that would take place as countries meet climate goals could contribute to global cooling and prevent more than one million annual premature deaths over a decade, according to a new study from the University of…

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells.The…

On May 26, Prof. HE Lianzhen, vice president of Zhejiang University, and Rachel Sandison, vice principal of the University of Glasgow, signed a university-wide memorandum of understanding (MoU) during the virtual conference.Prof. HE noted…

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. NAFLD patients are at higher risk of developing Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which causes severe and chronic liver…

Lancaster University researchers are developing new artificial intelligence systems that could help to predict and warn of flooding.Professor Plamen Angelov leads a collaborative project with the European Space Agency’s Φ-lab to develop a…

Photonic chips, powered by light rather than electricity, are the future. They will pave the way for self-driving vehicles, innovations in healthcare, and, of course, energy-efficient data and telecommunications. But bridging academic…