Case Western Reserve landed a $3.1M NICHD grant to test three ways to restore touch in people with quadriplegia. The trial will use volunteers already implanted with electrodes.

The University of Utah has proposed an on‑campus Olympics research center to study sustainability, athlete wellbeing and legacy work as Utah eyes the 2034 Winter Games. The move expands ongoing partnerships and taps local economic research.

A Salk‑led consortium won an ARPA‑H award of about $41.3M to push sonogenetics — engineered ultrasound‑sensitive proteins plus wearable devices — toward early clinical tests.

West‑MEC opened what it bills as the nation's first K–12 semiconductor cleanroom at its Northeast Campus, aiming to give students industry‑grade training for chip jobs. The new space pairs cleanroom protocol training with robotics and certification pathways.

A Laurel STEM university is expanding flight training and new aviation degrees after a 44% enrollment surge. The push uses FAA pathways and regional airports to grow enrollment.

Gallup’s latest workforce poll finds rising AI adoption, but about half of U.S. employees use AI only rarely or not at all, citing ethics, privacy and job concerns.

Seaport Therapeutics filed to go public, aiming to raise roughly $100M to advance its Glyph neuropsychiatry pipeline.

Ben Lamm says gene drives can curb a $5.4 trillion invasive‑species problem; safety and regulatory questions remain. The pitch puts Dallas biotech at the center of a fraught debate.

A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss a class action accusing CNN of sharing visitors’ browsing data with adtech firms, keeping alive a test of California’s pen‑register law.

Three former OpenAI Stargate leaders are joining Meta as the company rolls out Muse Spark and hikes infrastructure spending.

The IAB filed an amicus brief backing Seattle Children’s in a Washington Supreme Court case that asks whether routine website tracking can be treated as illegal wiretapping.

Anthropic will run parts of Claude on CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑powered cloud as it scales. The multiyear tie‑up gives Anthropic capacity while it builds $50B in U.S. data centers.

Synchrotron scans show Pohlsepia mazonensis, long billed as the world’s oldest octopus, is actually a nautiloid — reshaping cephalopod history.