First-of-its-kind crystal laser could power safer sensors and smarter tech

Published: 11 July 2025
Categories: Engineering News

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Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of the usual air holes. This design not only boosts laser performance but also opens the door to safer and more precise uses in defense, autonomous vehicles, and advanced sensors. It’s a breakthrough in how we build and power lasers—and it might change what lasers can do in the real world.

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Postdoctoral Associate – Advanced Imaging in Cancer Research

Published: 11 July 2025
Categories: Eng Jobs Academic Keys

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Job ID: 259679

Postdoctoral Associate – Advanced Imaging in Cancer Research
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Job Categories Post-Doc
Academic Fields Bioengineering (all Bio-related fields)

The Biomedical Optical Imaging Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a postdoctoral associate to drive our research on how chromatin organization and epigenetic regulation influence cancer therapy resistance. Our group pioneers and integrates super-resolution microscopy, highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging, and quantitative phase imaging to investigate morphodynamic and molecular changes that underlie treatment failure and cancer progression.

You will join a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data

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U.S. hydrocarbon production supported by export growth in long-term projections

Published: 11 July 2025
Categories: US Energy Information Administration

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In-brief analysis

July 11, 2025

In our Annual Energy Outlook 2025 (AEO2025), we project U.S. production growth of crude oil and natural gas remains relatively high through 2030 due to increasing U.S. exports of petroleum products and liquefied natural gas (LNG), as U.S. energy exports continue to be economical for international consumers.

AEO2025, which we released in April, only considers market and policy inputs as of December 2024 in most cases. Legislation, regulations, executive actions, and court rulings after that date are not considered in this analysis.

Crude oil
Crude oil production increases to about 14.0 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2027 or 2028 in most of our cases, compared with 13.2 million b/d in 2024. Near-term growth in our projections is largely due to increased production in the Permian Basin. The long-term projections differ somewhat

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Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down

Published: 11 July 2025
Categories: MIT Tech Review

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Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to commerce to critical infrastructure. But the global early warning system that alerts security teams to dangerous software flaws is showing critical gaps in coverage—and most users have no idea their digital lives are likely becoming more vulnerable.

Over the past eighteen months, two pillars of global cybersecurity have flirted with apparent collapse. In February 2024, the US-backed National Vulnerability Database (NVD)—relied on globally for its free analysis of security threats—abruptly stopped publishing new entries, citing a cryptic “change in interagency support.” Then, in April of this year, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, the fundamental numbering system for tracking software flaws, seemed at similar risk: A leaked letter warned of an imminent contract expiration.

Cybersecurity practitioners have since flooded Discord channels and LinkedIn feeds with emergency posts and memes

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