⚡🤖 Transformer-based predictive energy managementis transforming how renewable energy systems operate by using advanced AI models to forecast power generation and consumption with remarkable accuracy. By analyzing time-series data from solar ☀️ and wind 🌬️ sources, transformer models anticipate fluctuations, enabling smarter scheduling and reduced energy losses in modern power networks.
💧🔋 When integrated with hydrogen energy systems, this predictive approach optimizes green hydrogen production, storage, and utilization. Excess renewable energy is efficiently converted into hydrogen via electrolysis ⚙️, stored for later use, and reconverted into power when demand rises, ensuring flexibility, reliability, and minimal curtailment 🔄.
🌱🌍 Together, AI-driven transformers and hydrogen-integrated renewables support a resilient, low-carbon energy future. This intelligent energy management framework enhances grid stability ⚡, lowers emissions ♻️, and accelerates the transition toward sustainable, smart energy ecosystems 🚀.
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Digital Science, a global technology company advancing research integrity, security, and impact, today affirmed its support for U.S. government efforts to safeguard taxpayer-funded research, following the release of a new investigative report by the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
The report contains numerous examples of U.S-funded research links with China’s defense research and industrial base—including entities that appear on U.S. government national security entity lists—from June 2023 to June 2025, obtained by using Digital Science’s Dimensions.
Dimensions is the world’s largest interconnected global research database. The platform, which includes Dimensions Research Security, leverages AI to offer unmatched visibility for verifying researcher credentials in critical sectors like defense and high-tech research.
“Safeguarding U.S.-funded research starts with a fundamental understanding of the affiliations, funding, and collaborations of the researchers themselves. Dimensions provides trusted, comprehensive data to quickly identify hidden connections and potential risks,” said Mark Franco, Vice President, Research Security & Intelligence, Digital Science.
“We are proud to support government agencies and oversight bodies with transparent, evidence-based insights that help protect U.S. Federal research investments while preserving the openness that drives scientific progress.”
Foreign influence and the exploitation of open research systems are growing concerns for the U.S.; the committee’s report highlights the importance of balancing “academic freedom and open science with national security interests”. According to a recent congressional hearing of the Committee of Science, Space, and Technology, intellectual property theft and espionage cost the country $600 billion annually. This hearing also highlighted the need for government funding agencies to work together, the expansion of the American-born STEM talent pipeline, and the strengthening of analytic vetting and continuous monitoring.
“As a partner to several federal and defense agencies, Digital Science remains committed to supporting U.S. government stakeholders as they work to protect national interests, uphold research security, and ensure that taxpayer-funded research advances innovation without unintended risk. Together we will strengthen research security, integrity, and compliance,” Franco said.
Part of Digital Science, Dimensions hosts the largest collection of interconnected global research data, re-imagining research discovery with access to grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents all in one place. Follow Dimensions on Bluesky, X and LinkedIn.
About Digital Science
Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, government, funders, industry, and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.
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Catalysis-mediated dynamic ligand presentation is emerging as a powerful strategy to understand how stem cells interpret their microenvironment 🔬✨. Unlike static biomaterials, dynamically presented ligands can change in response to catalytic reactions ⚙️, allowing cells to continuously sense and adapt to mechanical signals such as stiffness, tension, and force 📐🧲. This dynamic interaction plays a key role in how stem cells attach, spread, and organize their cytoskeleton 🧬.
Mechanosensing does not act alone—it is tightly linked to cellular metabolism 🔄🔥. When stem cells experience mechanical cues, these signals are transmitted through integrins and cytoskeletal networks, ultimately influencing metabolic pathways like glycolysis and mitochondrial activity ⚡🫁. Catalysis-mediated ligand changes fine-tune this process, ensuring that energy production matches mechanical demand, which is crucial for maintaining stemness or triggering differentiation 🌱.
By coupling mechanosensing with metabolism, dynamic ligand presentation offers exciting opportunities for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine 🏥🚀. Designing smart biomaterials that actively communicate with stem cells can improve cell fate control, enhance regeneration, and mimic natural extracellular matrices more accurately 🧫🌍. This approach opens new doors for creating adaptive cell environments that respond intelligently to biological needs 💡🧠.
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Digital Science is excited to announce that its 2025 Catalyst Grant has been awarded to two teams working to advance global research through innovations in data visualization.
The winning teams, both based in the United States, will use the funding to develop their ideas, which include visualizations that demonstrate research influence and impact. Their innovations are directly relevant to researchers, academic institutions, scholarly publishers, and funders.
The winning teams from Digital Science’s 2025 Catalyst Grant round are:
FigureTwo transforms static research figures into interactive, data-connected visuals – helping researchers, publishers, and institutions create and share figures that are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)-compliant, permanently citable, and mobile-ready, saving time while making scientific results more transparent, discoverable, and impactful.
Pathfinder
Pathfinder, from company Syntheos, maps how ideas spread across more than 100,000 research communities, showing how discoveries in one area influence progress in another. It automatically turns research data into easy-to-read maps and evidence-backed narratives that link directly to the original papers. This helps funders, institutions, and researchers clearly show where their work is making a difference, and spot new opportunities for future impact.
Jeff Lang, Founder and CEO of FigureTwo, says: “We’re excited to be selected as one of this year’s winners of the Digital Science Catalyst Grant. Being considered in the same company as past winners and successful innovators is a true honor, and a recognition of everything we’ve been working toward.
“We have so much to be excited for this coming year. Our full launch is coming in 2026, when users will be able to add interactive figures to publications, and archive them to meet funder mandates. We’re also adding responsible AI automation to help turn research data into beautiful, accessible and interactive figures. This grant allows us to join the community infrastructure of scholarly communications by adding DOIs and long-term preservation.”
Caleb Smith, Founder and CEO of Syntheos, says: “Pathfinder is a game-changer because it turns raw citation counts into traceable histories. Essentially, we’re making the history of an idea visible, but more importantly, verifiable. Ultimately, our goal is simple: we want to make traceable, reproducible impact the new normal for science.
“The Catalyst Grant is critical for us because it’s allowing us to invest more in the trust layer of the product. The goal is to move from a powerful prototype to a standard, so that when we say an impact exists, you know it will hold up under audit.”
Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook says: “Through our Catalyst Grants, Digital Science is proud to invest in novel innovations that have the potential to make a difference to individual researchers and the global research ecosystem alike. We congratulate the 2025 Catalyst Grant winners, who have impressed us with their unique approaches to critical issues faced in research, and their use of data visualizations to provide meaningful insights and outcomes for researchers, scholarly publishing, and funders.”
Steve Scott, Director of Portfolio Development at Digital Science, says: “We expected that our 2025 theme of Data Visualization would result in some novel entries at the intersection of science, design and data – and our winners have more than risen to that challenge.
“FigureTwo stood out to us due to the team’s deeply relevant publishing and product background, resulting in an elegant solution. Pathfinder brings a team with a deep bibliometrics and science-mapping pedigree, and a product that already aligns with our customers and products. It’s exciting for us to invest into these teams, and we can’t wait to see what they will produce in the year ahead.”
See comments from our 2025 Digital Science Catalyst Grant winners.
About Catalyst Grant
The Digital Science Catalyst Grant is an international initiative to support innovation in new software tools and technologies, to advance research and create meaningful change.
The program supports and invests in early-stage ideas in the novel use of technology, with an award of up to £25,000 for the most promising ideas that aid research and further its impact on society.
The Catalyst Grant is awarded to innovative individuals or startups without the need for a complete business or development plan. Several previous Catalyst Grant winners have developed important products and solutions within Digital Science itself.
About Digital Science
Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry, and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.
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David Ellis, Press, PR & Social Manager, Digital Science: Mobile +61 447 783 023, d.ellis@digital-science.com
🌿 Biopolymeric Compounds from Olive Oil By-Products: A Sustainable Boost for Agriculture 🌿 The olive oil production chain generates significant by-products such as olive pomace and wastewater, which are rich in valuable biopolymers. These natural compounds, when carefully extracted and processed, can be transformed into innovative materials for agricultural use. Instead of being treated as waste, olive oil by-products are now gaining attention as eco-friendly resources that support circular economy principles ♻️ and reduce environmental impact.
🌱 Enhanced Controlled-Release Biofertilizers for Smarter Farming 🌱
Biopolymeric compounds derived from olive oil by-products act as excellent carriers for nutrients, enabling controlled and sustained release into the soil. This slow-release mechanism improves nutrient uptake by plants, minimizes leaching losses, and reduces the need for frequent fertilizer application 🚜. As a result, crops receive balanced nutrition over time, leading to healthier growth and improved productivity.
🌍 Environmental and Economic Benefits for the Future 🌍
Using olive oil chain by-products as biofertilizers not only promotes sustainable agriculture but also offers economic benefits to olive-producing regions. Farmers benefit from improved soil fertility and reduced chemical fertilizer dependence, while the environment benefits from lower pollution and waste valorization 🌾. This innovative approach represents a promising step toward greener, more resilient food systems for the future ✨.
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🌟 Visionary Business–Science Achievement Award celebrates trailblazers who seamlessly integrate scientific excellence with business innovation. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals transforming research insights into scalable solutions that drive economic growth and societal advancement. 🚀
🔬💼 Award recipients demonstrate exceptional leadership in translating cutting-edge science into practical applications. Their work bridges academia and industry, fostering collaboration, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development across global markets. 🌍
🏆 By spotlighting visionary thinkers, this award inspires the next generation of innovators to pursue impactful, interdisciplinary careers. It reinforces the power of science-driven business strategies in shaping a smarter, more resilient future. ✨
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Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a promising thermochemical process that converts wet, multi-component biomass into energy-dense solid fuel under moderate temperatures and pressures. It offers an efficient pathway for waste valorization and sustainable bioenergy production ♻️🌱.
⚙️📊 Prediction and Analysis of Fuel Properties
By analyzing feedstock composition and HTC operating conditions, key solid fuel properties such as carbon content, calorific value, and hydrophobicity can be accurately predicted. Data-driven modeling improves process understanding and supports reliable performance optimization 🔍🧪.
🚀🌍 Energy and Sustainability Impact
Optimized HTC enhances fuel stability, reduces moisture sensitivity, and improves combustion behavior. This approach enables cleaner solid biofuels, supports circular bioeconomy goals, and contributes to low-carbon energy systems for future applications 🌿🔥.
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