New brain atlas, greener gold, research and SDG policy & more🧠🔭

Brain atlas, From perfume to plastic, Stable solar power, Plant aging switch, Anti-cancer droplets, Greener gold, Extreme star factory and How research shapes sustainability policy. Read all in the latest Editor's Choice.

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New brain atlas, greener gold, research and SDG policy & more🧠🔭

Brain atlas

Duke-NUS Medical School

Scientists built a new map of the developing human brain that captures nearly every cell type, their genetic fingerprints, and how they grow and interact, marking a major step forward in testing new therapies for neurological conditions.

Best-in-class

From perfume to plastic

YOKOHAMA National University

A new method allowed researchers to turn essential oil compounds into durable yet decomposable polymers, making them promising candidates for producing more sustainable plastics.

Aromatic

Stable solar power

Lingnan University

Perovskite solar cells are low cost and efficient, but face serious stability problems. A team designed a crosslinkable molecule that forms stable bonds, suppressing degradation and improving compactness.

JJ24

Plant aging switch

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)

Researchers discovered how an RNA made from the nucleus acts as a switch to signal when plant leaves begin to age. The finding could help develop enhancements for more productive and resilient crops.

Chlorella RNA

Anti-cancer droplets

Kanazawa University

New research uncovered how a specific protein forms tiny liquid-like droplets inside the cell nucleus to guard against cancer by keeping tumor-suppressor genes “turned on.”

Control centres

Greener gold

The University of Osaka

Using microalgae, scientists developed an eco-friendly method to create gold nanoparticles that effectively destroy cancer cells while showing lower toxicity to healthy cells.

Not all glitters

Extreme star factory

Hiroshima University

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy glowing intensely while forming stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way.

Superheated cosmic dust

How research shapes sustainability policy

Springer Nature

A new report analysed how academic research is influencing policy tied to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and found that 78% of research cited includes authors based only in countries in the Global North.

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