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Science13 Nov 2025

Study provides new forecasts of remote islands’ vulnerability to sea level rise

In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with an extremely high tide level. A new and detailed analysis of that incident, compiled using fieldwork and computer modelling, has shown it to be a relatively rare occurrence with the worst flooding seen in the region since the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. However, scientists have warned that future predicted rises in sea levels, potentially coupled with an increase in extreme weather events and wave conditions, could result in such flooding becoming far more common, perhaps happening every two to three years by around 2050. It has led them to ...

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Science13 Nov 2025

Eric Nestler receives the UNIGE Synapsy Prize 2025

The Synapsy Centre for Neuroscience Research in Mental at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) Faculty of Medicine has awarded its first prize to Professor Eric Nestler, a leading figure in the neurobiology of depression and addiction. The prize recognises a career dedicated to linking fundamental discoveries about the brain to concrete clinical advances in mental health. Psychiatry has been evolving over the past twenty years. Driven by a new scientific ambition, it seeks to understand the biological mechanisms underlying mental disorders to improve their diagnosis and treatment. This translational approach aims to foster dialogue ...

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Science13 Nov 2025

Fair fare

The unforeseen consequences of modern lifestyles are coming to the forefront as healthcare costs spike in developed countries worldwide. One method to mitigate this is to encourage walking to promote good health. Therefore, initiatives to increase daily steps have been taking shape and becoming subjects for in-depth study. Dr. Haruka Kato, a junior associate professor at Osaka Metropolitan University, with policy planners from the Sakai City Government investigated the ...

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Science13 Nov 2025

E-cigarettes compromise children’s human rights

Exposing children to e-cigarettes compromises their human rights. These products should be regulated in a way that puts children’s best interests first and protects them from the harms associated with nicotine consumption in all its forms, argue experts in The BMJ today. Children are now using e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults, write Tom Gatehouse and colleagues. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 7.2% of children aged 13-15 currently use e-cigarettes. Data indicate use in this group is nine times that of adults, in countries which monitor both groups. As ...

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Science13 Nov 2025

EuTYPH-C Inj.® Multi-dose demonstrates strong safety and immunogenicity: Results now available from a Phase 3 study

Seattle, United States & Seoul, Republic of Korea—PATH and EuBiologics Co., LTD are pleased to announce Phase 3 results from a clinical trial of a typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), EuTYPH-C Inj.® Multi-dose. EuTYPH-C Inj.® Multi-dose is manufactured by EuBiologics Co., LTD, Republic of Korea. The results, published in The Lancet Global Health, demonstrate that EuTYPH-C Inj.® Multi-dose is safe and immunogenic in typhoid-endemic populations in sub-Saharan Africa. The study was conducted at sites in Kenya and Senegal in healthy ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

UH Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ranked No. 1 for seventh consecutive year

The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship in the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business has once again been named the No. 1 undergraduate entrepreneurship program. The Wolff Center is the first undergraduate program to secure seven consecutive No. 1 rankings on The Princeton Review’s list, besting its own record of six consecutive wins in the 2025 ranking last November. Each year, The Princeton Review ranks undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs based on a survey of nearly 300 schools across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe. ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

New study reveals long-term impacts on Stevens-Johnson syndrome survivors

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) survivors encounter rare, life-threatening drug reactions and years of physical, emotional and social consequences long after leaving the hospital, according to a study published today in JAMA Dermatology. Investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Center for Drug Safety and Immunology (CDSI), in collaboration with the VUMC Qualitative Research Core, conducted one of the largest qualitative studies in the United States exploring SJS/TEN recovery and long-term residual effects from the patients’ ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Rainfall and temperature shape mosquito fauna in Atlantic Forest bromeliads, including malaria vectors

The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s – with approximately 4,000 cases per 100,000 people – that the disease became known as bromeliad malaria. This is because the Kerteszia subgenus of the mosquito, which transmits the disease in the Atlantic Forest, develops only in bromeliads, plants that accumulate water and maintain conditions favorable for the development of this and other species. Although ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Three Tufts professors are named top researchers in the world

Three Tufts faculty have been named to a ranking of the world’s most highly cited researchers. The researchers in the Clarivate 2025 list have a significant impact on the research community as judged by the rate their work is cited by their peers, according to Clarivate, an information and analytics firm focused on research. The highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for a field or fields and publication year, and only about 1 in 1,000 researchers worldwide qualify. The Tufts researchers are Chunmei Li, Renata Micha, and Dariush Mozaffarian. For this year’s analysis, the ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Bacteriophage characterization provides platform for rational design

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target only bacterial cells, they hold promise as an alternative to antibiotics, overcoming increasing issues around antibiotic resistance. However, the size, complexity and growth conditions of phages make them difficult to study, limiting progress in the field. Now in Science Advances, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and University of Otago describe the bacteriophage Bas63 in unprecedented detail, supporting new mechanistic understanding into how these viruses function. Co-author Professor Matthias Wolf, head of the Molecular ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Young adults say they’re happy with their friendships. So why do so many still feel disconnected?

LAWRENCE — A new study challenges common assumptions about loneliness in young adulthood, finding that feelings of disconnection can coexist with rich, active social lives. The research, co-authored by Jeffrey A. Hall, professor and chair of the University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies, reveals that ongoing life changes, delayed intimacy and prolonged instability — especially among college-educated women — may contribute to social ambivalence, even though young adults have supportive friendships and strong ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Mass shootings spur local voter turnout but don’t sway presidential vote choices, study finds

AMHERST, Mass. — Mass shootings can spur higher voter turnout in nearby communities, but the effect is highly localized and doesn’t appear to change how people vote for president, according to new findings from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. The study, published today in Science Advances, analyzed whether mass shootings motivate Americans to vote—and if they change whom voters support at the polls. “Mass shootings boost turnout generally, but especially in deeply blue areas [and] without changing minds,” says Kelsey Shoub, associate ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage. This brief initial phase wouldn’t have been observable a day later and helps address a whole set of questions about how massive stars go supernova. When the supernova explosion SN 2024ggi was first detected on ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Alcohol, cocaine use, and cigarette use are positively correlated with problematic pornography use (PPU), though studies saw no significant correlation between use of other substances and PPU, finds s

Alcohol, cocaine use, and cigarette use are positively correlated with problematic pornography use (PPU), though studies saw no significant correlation between use of other substances and PPU, finds scoping review. Article Title: Substance use patterns among individuals with problematic pornography use: A scoping review Author Countries: Canada, United States Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. END ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

FAPESP Day Uruguay symposium begins tomorrow in Montevideo

FAPESP and Uruguay’s National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) are hosting the FAPESP Day Uruguay symposium tomorrow (11/13) and Friday (11/14) in Montevideo. The event aims to foster partnerships between researchers from São Paulo and Uruguay in strategic areas of mutual interest. The event will have a similar structure to the FAPESP Week series, which has had 24 previous editions. However, it will have a shorter program focused on three themes: Oceanography, Strategies and Policies for Sustainable Animal Protein Production, and Forestry for Production and Conservation: Innovations ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

First confirmed sighting of giant explosion on nearby star

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star – a burst powerful enough to strip away the atmosphere of any unlucky planet in its path. The burst was a coronal mass ejection (CME), eruptions we often see coming from the Sun. During a CME, massive amounts of material are flung out from our star, flooding the surrounding space. These dramatic expulsions ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Functional somatic disorders in individuals with a history of sexual assault

About The Study: The findings of this cohort study suggest that sexual assault may increase the risk of developing functional somatic disorder (FSD), involving multiple body systems. Functional somatic disorder is characterized by persistent physical symptoms and substantial disability. Despite limitations from small case samples in some FSD subtypes, the pooled analysis underscores the high risk of FSD, emphasizing the critical need for further research and targeted interventions to address the long-term biopsychosocial consequences of sexual assault. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Sofie ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Variety of animals evolved similar genetics solutions to survive on land, study finds

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life such as insects, worms and vertebrates independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Barcelona. The research, published in Nature today [12 November] suggests that some adaptations are so essential that environmental challenges make evolution predictable. The researchers decoded the genetic basis of one of evolution’s more extraordinary innovations – ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Nature versus nurture question addressed in landmark study

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to diseases like Type 2 diabetes, in a study co-led by University of Queensland researchers and collaborators at genomic technology company Illumina, Inc. This study is the largest of its kind and used the DNA sequences of 347,630 people of European descent from the UK Biobank to quantify how much trait differences between people can be explained by genetic factors, known as heritability. Professor Loic Yengo from UQ’s ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Lower LRIG1 expression linked to aggressive gliomas

“Our results reinforce suggestions that LRIG1-3 could function as diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets in the treatment of gliomas.” BUFFALO, NY – November 12, 2025 – A new research paper was published in Oncotarget (Volume 16) on November 6, 2025, titled “LRIG1-3 in gliomas: LRIG1 protein expression decreased in higher grade gliomas.” In this study by Marlene Happe, Saskia Kuhl, Lukas Görtz, Roland Goldbrunner and Marco Timmer, from the University of Cologne, researchers found that the LRIG1 protein, which may help suppress tumors, is present at lower levels in more aggressive gliomas, a type of brain tumor. The findings ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

JMIR Publications partners with Signals to strengthen research integrity across its portfolio

(Toronto, November 12, 2025) JMIR Publications is pleased to announce an agreement with Signals Manuscript Checks to leverage their tool across their entire portfolio. JMIR Publications, a leading publisher in digital medicine, health technology and sciences, has begun evaluating article submissions with Signals Manuscript Checks — a tool that provides automated and transparent evaluations of manuscripts to identify research integrity issues, and enables AI-supported investigations of manuscripts through Sleuth AI, Signals’ AI-powered research integrity assistant. With Signals Manuscript Checks, JMIR Publications aims to increase the efficiency and ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Pain during a C-section? New study challenges fears about general anesthesia

PHILADELPHIA—Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during labor and delivery. Powerful societal pressures also push the idea that mothers need to be awake during delivery to witness the first cry and capture the ‘perfect’ birth moment. But for some women who undergo a cesarean birth, the pain can become excruciating, even after they received a spinal or epidural block. Now, new research from a team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Bees thrive in overlooked pockets of Puget Sound

PULLMAN, Wash. -- To the casual observer, it’s nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally maintained “marginal lands” in the Puget Sound area, is home to scores of wild bee species, including many never found before in Snohomish and King counties, according to a seven-year study by Washington State University researchers and others. The survey of bees at three plots of land near airports and beneath power lines adds to the evidence that small corners of largely untended land can sustain bee populations amid the concrete and asphalt landscape of cities ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

Stevens researchers bring hypersonic flight one step closer to take off

Hoboken, N.J., November 12, 2025 — If it were to become a reality, hypersonic flight, long the realm of science fiction, could revolutionize global travel, transforming day-long international flights into brief commutes no longer than a feature length movie. The duration of a long-haul route, such as Sydney to Los Angeles, might drop from 15 hours to just one. “It really shrinks the planet,” says Professor Nicholaus Parziale, whose research focuses on making such hypersonic flight a reality, and who is a recent recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists ...

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Science12 Nov 2025

The “Seven Sisters” just found thousands of long-lost siblings

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the “Seven Sisters” often spotted on winter nights, is just the bright tip of a much larger stellar family. By combining data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, the team uncovered thousands of hidden siblings spread across the sky, a sprawling structure they call the Greater Pleiades Complex. The discovery shows the Pleiades is 20 times larger than previously thought. Most stars, including our own Sun, are born ...

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