Funding & Institutions

3+ hour, 28+ min ago   (169+ words) For the last 53 years, BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration, and glaucoma research, has been making an unconventional bet. What happens when you give promising and emerging scientists funding to pursue early‑stage, high‑risk research that…...

30+ min ago   (847+ words) Mirage News Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su and New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) President and CEO Anthony Shorris today announced the city will award $29.2 million to New York University (NYU) to establish…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago   (203+ words) The Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science provides $2.4 million over three years for an interdisciplinary AITHYRA-EPFL consortium for their project “Beyond Serendipity: Using Generative AI to Decode Viral Hijacking for Rational Drug Design”. Today, Google announced the recipients of…...

5+ hour, 55+ min ago   (706+ words) Remarkable technological breakthroughs have been achieved in China’s domestic non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) rehabilitation sector, a critical innovative frontier for neurorehabilitation and medical assistive technology. As core R&D milestones are continuously reached, the entire non-invasive BCI rehabilitation industry chain…...

11+ hour, 53+ min ago   (296+ words) There were 1,513 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 285,116 in the last 365 days. Feinberg principal investigators secured $758 million dollars in research funding and awards during the 2025-26 fiscal year, accounting for more than 74 percent of Northwestern University’s more than $1 billion…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (314+ words) Scientists will get tools such as AlphaFold 3 and WeatherNext, plus $3m in computing credits, through an EU scheme. Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, Google said today....

9+ hour, 41+ min ago   (620+ words) The result, published in Communications Physics (Nature Portfolio), introduces a concept called cycle holonomy as the decisive diagnostic for remote synchronization — the counterintuitive phenomenon in which two network nodes lock their phases together even though the nodes between them do…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago   (664+ words) The URV team — Lluís Torres-Hugas, Jordi Duch, Sergio Gómez, and Alex Arenas — asked a different question: instead of adding richer structure to the network model, what if the pairwise structure already present contains constraints that look, from the outside, exactly…...

16+ hour, 24+ min ago   (203+ words) Reformatting historical data and getting scientists to agree on how best to generate it are among the biggest hurdles in rolling out hybrid modeling upstream, says Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). During a fireside chat led by BPI’s Josh Abbott at…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (595+ words) Anthropic, Claude, AI Policy, AI for Science, Genesis Mission Part of Anthropic and Claude Anthropic commits $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, bringing Claude, Claude Code, and API credits to NASA, NIH, NSF, and more. It extends a…...