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Breakthrough to Strengthen Bones Could Reverse Osteoporosis

Research points to a key bone-strengthening mechanism at work in the body, which could be targeted to treat the bone-weakening disease, osteoporosis.

Led by scientists from the University of Leipzig in Germany and Shandong University in China, the 2025 study identified the cell receptor GPR133 (also known as ADGRD1) as being crucial to bone density, via bone-building cells called osteoblasts.

Variations in the GPR133 gene had previously been linked to bone density, leading researchers to turn their attention to the protein it encoded.

AI Research Symposium: The Next Frontiers | Keynotes by Demis Hassabis, Yoshua Bengio & Yann LeCun

Welcome to the Research Symposium on Enabling AI at Nation Scale, hosted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

This landmark event brings together the world’s leading pioneers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss the future of discovery, engineering, and national infrastructure. Featuring keynote addresses from Turing Award winners and industry visionaries, we explore how AI acts as a catalyst for scientific breakthroughs and the \.

Strontium optical clock accurate to within 1 second over 30 billion years

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have achieved a major breakthrough in optical clock technology, developing a strontium optical lattice clock with stability and uncertainty both surpassing the 10⁻¹⁹ level, meaning the clock would lose or gain less than one second over roughly 30 billion years.

The findings are published in the journal Metrologia.

Optical clocks are considered the most precise timekeeping devices currently available. They measure time by using the frequency of light emitted when electrons transition between energy levels in atoms.

Flexible high-density microelectrode arrays for closed-loop brain–machine interfaces: a review

Flexible high-density microelectrode arrays (HDMEAs) are emerging as a key component in closed-loop brain–machine interfaces (BMIs), providing high-resolution functionality for recording, stimulation, or both. The flexibility of these arrays provides advantages over rigid ones, such as reduced mismatch between interface and tissue, resilience to micromotion, and sustained long-term performance. This review summarizes the recent developments and applications of flexible HDMEAs in closed-loop BMI systems. It delves into the various challenges encountered in the development of ideal flexible HDMEAs for closed-loop BMI systems and highlights the latest methodologies and breakthroughs to address these challenges. These insights could be instrumental in guiding the creation of future generations of flexible HDMEAs, specifically tailored for use in closed-loop BMIs.

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