Today on R&D World
One SwRI R&D 100 winner turns buckled fiberglass into a spacecraft truss. The other models freight rail with 900 hours of BNSF field data
NVIDIA and Apple unveil compact AI computers for robots and agents, claiming 2x and 4x generational AI gains
SLAC- and Sandia-led program that aims to turn national lab projects into startups has $8.4 million in financial backing
Inside the Lab: NETL’s Oil and Gas Center of Excellence focuses on technologies to enhance production
Inside S&C Electric’s and Argonne National Lab’s CRADA partnership
How LLNL won a $2M grant and found a commercialization partner for its methanol reactor design
EigenQ CEO: Quantum risk puts everything from pharma data and government secrets on the clock
The Practical Blueprint for Delivering Flexible, Competitive Labs
New process could reduce energy needed for crude-oil distillation by 31%
Researchers develop method to convert factory emissions to fuel feedstock without purification
Winners unveiled for 2026 R&D 100 Special Recognition categories
R&D World announces 2026 R&D 100 Professional Award Winners
Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion valuation. Its projected Q2 revenue was $10.9B
WHOI’s Alvin returns to sea with an autonomous vehicle that can explore down to 11,000 meters
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How a Duke-led HPC method brought cell-scale cancer simulation to a single cloud node
Even on the largest supercomputers, simulations that explicitly resolve every blood cell can only cover a small volume. On Summit, Oak Ridge National Labs’ supercomputer, cell-resolved simulations topped out at roughly a three-millimeter cube. Exascale machines like Aurora and Frontier have pushed that to about a one-centimeter cube with several billion cells, up from around 500 million, said Amanda Randles of Duke…
Princeton researchers uncover hidden mathematical link between origami and structural design
NTT Research taps Tetsuomi Sogawa to lead PHI Lab as optical-computing work advances
IBM physicist and Montreal computer scientist share Turing Award for quantum information breakthroughs
Research team shows nanoparticles adhere to quantum mechanics
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Operational discipline is a critical determinant of clinical utility for neurologic monoclonal antibodies
By Bill Holt, DO, Vice President, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, ICON For neurologic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), the scientific hurdle is no longer the primary barrier to success. Increasingly, operational execution—not efficacy—determines whether these therapies reach patients at scale. From multiple sclerosis (MS) to neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) to early Alzheimer’s disease, mAbs have moved from…
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Norstella launches Atlas, a biopharma agentic platform that can ‘train you’
Enterprise software in drug development tends to arrive slowly. Laboratory information management systems, quality platforms and the enterprise resource planning software they connect to typically take months to deploy. In Panorama Consulting Group’s 2026 ERP report, based on 170 organizations across industries surveyed between January 2025 and January 2026, the median project ran nine months,…
How a Duke-led HPC method brought cell-scale cancer simulation to a single cloud node
As AI floods drug discovery with designs, Twist uses DNA chips to tackle the wet-lab bottleneck
Recursion says its Norstella-backed real-time simulation can expand trial eligibility by up to 40%
NIH employees warn of ‘institutionalized destruction’ one year after Bethesda Declaration
Nanotechnology See More >
Researchers developed quantum nanosensors that can measure the temperature of a single cell
Researchers have developed molecular quantum nanosensors (MoQNs) designed to operate in the cytoplasm and nuclei of living cancer cells to map radical-generation processes and thermal dynamics that are linked to cancer-associated cellular physiology. The sensors use molecular-level uniformity to achieve a threefold enhancement in spectral resolution and superior thermometric specificity. The platform enables absolute temperature…
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One SwRI R&D 100 winner turns buckled fiberglass into a spacecraft truss. The other models freight rail with 900 hours of BNSF field data
Solar arrays have been standard spacecraft hardware for decades, but their tendency to flex can complicate maneuvers needing precision such as docking. To tame the wobble, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) developed PaSTA, a technology that can bring rigidity to deployable structures on spacecraft, thus enabling autonomous spacecraft docking operations. PaSTA also happens to be one…
Inside the Lab: NETL’s Oil and Gas Center of Excellence focuses on technologies to enhance production
Inside S&C Electric’s and Argonne National Lab’s CRADA partnership
As U.S. power demand surges, Brookhaven taps AWS in aim to drive 20-100x faster power grid decision-making with GridSearch AI
DOE announces first selections for nuclear energy DOME program
Chemistry See More >
Inside the Lab: NETL’s Oil and Gas Center of Excellence focuses on technologies to enhance production
At the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), we are undertaking integrated research aligned with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) priorities and industrial needs to increase the recovery of hydrocarbons from challenging subsurface formations and enable the development of secure, efficient, and low-impact oil and gas systems. In April 2026, DOE’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office established the Oil and Gas Center of Excellence at NETL. Our capabilities and expertise position us to advance the…
How LLNL won a $2M grant and found a commercialization partner for its methanol reactor design
New process could reduce energy needed for crude-oil distillation by 31%
Researchers develop method to convert factory emissions to fuel feedstock without purification
Argonne’s ChemGraph opens quantum chemistry to non-experts, tracks AI model performance
Material Science See More >
One SwRI R&D 100 winner turns buckled fiberglass into a spacecraft truss. The other models freight rail with 900 hours of BNSF field data
Solar arrays have been standard spacecraft hardware for decades, but their tendency to flex can complicate maneuvers needing precision such as docking. To tame the wobble, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) developed PaSTA, a technology that can bring rigidity to deployable structures on spacecraft, thus enabling autonomous spacecraft docking operations. PaSTA also happens to be one…
Researchers develop sawdust-based foam as polystyrene bans force industry to adapt
Researchers develop compostable PLA that potentially could be used for biomedical applications
Elkem Silicones rebrands as Bluestar Silicones after ownership change
How Atomis is using AI simulations to commercialize MOFs
Semiconductors See More >
SK Telecom puts SK hynix fabs into an NVIDIA Omniverse twin, following Samsung and TSMC
SK Telecom said on June 1 that it has put SK hynix’s semiconductor fabs into a digital twin built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, with commercialization to follow in stages under SK hynix’s “Autonomous Fab 2030” roadmap. SK hynix’s news is part of a trend involving Omniverse-based fab twins. SK hynix and SKT first surfaced the…
What Apple’s new CEO could mean for its R&D strategy
Copper is hitting its physical limit with AI. Why NTT thinks photonics is could unblock it.
Nanoscale ridges in a substrate add 15 K and 50 Tesla to a superconductor’s limits
Marktech expands large-area silicon photodiode portfolio for spectroscopy, medical diagnostics
Aerospace See More >
One SwRI R&D 100 winner turns buckled fiberglass into a spacecraft truss. The other models freight rail with 900 hours of BNSF field data
Solar arrays have been standard spacecraft hardware for decades, but their tendency to flex can complicate maneuvers needing precision such as docking. To tame the wobble, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) developed PaSTA, a technology that can bring rigidity to deployable structures on spacecraft, thus enabling autonomous spacecraft docking operations. PaSTA also happens to be one…
