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Recent research from Rockefeller University, published online in Nature on November 26, 2025 offers a substantially expanded view of how the brain determines which experiences become long-term memories. Long-term memories are those that persist for days, months, or years. While neuroscientists have long understood that only a fraction of moment-to-moment experience is preserved, the new…

This Thanksgiving, the CatholicTech community enjoyed many festivities! With the final day of classes on Wednesday, students and faculty flocked to prepare for the holiday on Thursday. On Thanksgiving morning, a delegation from Castel Gandolfo rose early and partook in the North American Pontifical College’s annual “Turkey Trot,” which proved to be a most enjoyable…

On October 22 of this year, Google released the results of a new experiment involving its latest quantum processor, Willow. This device impressed researchers with extraordinary speed and reliability when performing a new type of quantum computation. The experiment used an algorithm called Quantum Echoes, which allows quantum processors to test themselves in a way…

Postdoctoral scholar from MIT, Giorgio Rizzo, published a research paper this July exploring the usefulness of lanthanides (Lns) in preserving crops from UV light stressors while contributing as much benefit as possible. The findings would support that a mixture of (La 3+) Lanthanum III cation and a certain sugar called Trehalose, a common disaccharide produced…

Campus Life Updates In honor of the great St. Albert’s feast day, students enjoyed a long weekend with Friday off. Taking advantage of the extra free time, students undertook numerous travels throughout Lazio and Italy, with some travelling as far as the ancient city of Pompeii. The community of CatholicTech has been growing, as students…

The hydrogel, renowned online for amazing feats and spectacular properties — now one more reason to love hydrogels — it revolutionizes additive manufacturing. Researchers from EFPL (University of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) now use hydrogel structures to soak up metallic precursors known as metallic salts and use these soaked shapes to capture a form…

The Photovoltaic Retinal Implant Microarray, also known as PRIMA, is a first-of-its-kind ocular chip which gives sight to the blind.  First dreamed of by its creator in 2005, the technology has finally reached maturity and has had its first human trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although the implant only has capacity…

In 2026, researchers from MXN are going to launch a mission to examine the moons of Mars in order to understand more about how they were created. Are they captured debris from the far reaches of space, or are they fragments of Mars which were broken off long ago? Some scientists have recently put forth…

A multinational team led by researchers at ShanghaiTech came out with a novel technology with major repercussions for biomedicine and computing. They managed to use an ultrasonic beam to dewet a particle of fluid such that it could be precisely maneuvered over hydrophilic surfaces. Imagine moving a droplet of water over a sponge with the…