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Science8 Sep 2025

Training to improve memory

In Europe, almost one in 10 people over 70 suffers from dementia, and this figure could even triple by 2050 due to rising life expectancy. Over time, those affected lose everything that makes them who they are, including their memory and their ability to go about their everyday lives. Many also suffer from physical deterioration. In an advanced stage of the disorder, dementia patients generally require comprehensive care. Now, the first drugs have emerged that can slightly slow down disease progression in the early stages of Alzheimer’s – ...

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Science8 Sep 2025

Canada must protect youth from sports betting advertising

Canada must enact strong, effective legislation to protect youth from gambling advertising. Minors are suffering harms from problem gambling despite age restrictions, argue authors in an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251227 . Since 2021, ads for sports betting have saturated sports broadcasts, constantly viewed by children. Gambling is normalized as a natural part of spectatorship at a young age. Even before single-game sports betting was legalized, a 2019 survey of Canadian students in grades 7–12 found about 4% of students ...

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Science6 Sep 2025

Iza-Bren in combination with osimertinib shows 100% response rate in EGFR-mutated NSCLC, phase II study finds

Iza-Bren in combination with Osimertinib Shows 100% Response Rate in EGFR-Mutated NSCLC, Phase II Study Finds Barcelona, Spain (September, 2025) —A combination of iza-bren (BL-B01D1), a novel bispecific antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), with osimertinib demonstrated a 100% objective response rate (ORR) in patients with first-line EGFR-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study was presented today at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). Iza-bren is a first-in-class ADC combining EGFR and HER3 targeting with a topoisomerase I inhibitor payload. The study tested iza-bren at multiple ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Study prompts new theory of human-machine communication

Hed: Study prompts new theory of human-machine communication LAWRENCE – In a new paper, two University of Kansas scholars propose a novel theory of communication analysis that takes into better account how people interact with ubiquitous technology in the 21st-century workplace. In “Socio-Technical Exchange with Machines: Worker Experiences with Complex Work Technologies,” ----- link to https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.10.3 ----------- in the Human-Machine Communications ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Coral-inspired pill offers a new window into the hidden world of the gut

In the depths of the ocean, marine corals have evolved intricate, porous structures that shelter diverse microbial communities. Now, researchers have borrowed this biological blueprint to create an ingestible pill that can sample bacteria from one of the most inaccessible regions of the human body: the small intestine. The CORAL (Cellularly Organized Repeating Lattice) capsule, developed by Khalil Ramadi – assistant professor of bioengineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) – and ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

nTIDE September2025 Jobs Report: Employment for people with disabilities surpasses prior high

East Hanover, NJ – September 5, 2025 – The latest National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report shows that, in contrast to people without disabilities, the employment and labor force participation of people with disabilities of people with disabilities increased, narrowly reaching all-time highs, according to nTIDE experts. nTIDE is issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability. Month-to-Month nTIDE Numbers (comparing July 2025 to August 2025) Based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Jobs Report released today, the employment-to-population ratio ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

When getting a job makes you go hungry

Key points: Utah refugees face very high levels of food insecurity. Food insecurity spikes when refugees become ineligible for food assistance. Proposed solutions include improving education about resources and increasing access to gardens. IMPACT: Timely interventions to reduce food insecurity could benefit health and save the U.S. healthcare system billions. Three months ago, you left your country fearing for your life. Now, you’re learning to navigate a new city, where the street signs are in a new language. You’re ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

More scrutiny of domestic fishing fleets at ports could help deter illegal fishing

Embargoed: Not for Release Until 2:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time Friday, 05 September 2025 In brief: Countries that have ratified the Port State Measures Agreement, which entered into force in 2016, are required to designate certain ports for foreign vessels to land their fish and undergo standardized inspections to identify illegal catches. As more countries adopted the internationally binding agreement between 2016 and 2021, the distance that foreign fishing vessels needed to travel to reach a port within a country that had not ratified the treaty doubled. Domestic fishing ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Adaptive visible-infrared camouflage with wide-range radiation control for extreme ambient temperatures

Breaking free from spectral limits From thermal cameras to multispectral sensors, modern surveillance technologies are increasingly difficult to evade, creating urgent demand for camouflage that adapts across both visible and infrared bands. Yet progress has long been constrained by three persistent challenges: the tight coupling between visible color shifts and infrared emissivity, which forces trade-offs; the limited thermal modulation range of existing devices, typically 60 °C swings; and scalability constraints, with most prototypes restricted ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

MD Anderson research highlights for September 5, 2025

MD Anderson Research Highlights for September 5, 2025 Clinical trials show promising results in treating pancreatic and colorectal cancers New treatment strategies improve outcomes for patients with kidney and testicular cancers Novel research techniques enable advances in gene-drug interactions, breast cancer progression, and identifying pre-cancerous lesions Biomarkers help predict risk for oral cancer metastasis HOUSTON, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Reminder: Final media invitation for EPSC-DPS2025 and details of media briefings on RAMSES and Juno missions

The Europlanet Science Congress 2025 will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS2025) from 7–12 September 2025 at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland. With around 1800 participants expected to join in person and online, it will be the largest planetary science meeting held to date in Europe. Press briefings will be livestreamed and press notices on presentations of interest to the media will be issued by the EPSC-DPS2025 ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester palaeontologists in a post-mortem 150 million years in the making. Detailed in a new study in the journal Current Biology, their findings show how these flying reptiles were tragically struck down by powerful storms that also created the ideal conditions to preserve them and hundreds more fossils like them. The Mesozoic, or age of reptiles, is often imagined as a time of giants. Towering dinosaurs, monstrous marine reptiles, and vast-winged pterosaurs dominate museum halls and the public consciousness. But this familiar picture is skewed. Just as today’s ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Pre-dialysis nephrology care disparities and incident vascular access among Hispanic individuals

About The Study: This retrospective cohort study of incident hemodialysis patients found that system-based disparities in pre-dialysis access to nephrology care contribute to approximately one-third of incident vascular access disparities among Hispanic individuals. Targeted system-based remedies and policies are needed to improve timely identification and nephrology referrals among Hispanic individuals, for equitable improvements in incident kidney failure outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Ashutosh M. Shukla, ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Addition of progesterone leads to increased breast growth for those taking gender-affirming hormones

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an Amsterdam UMC-led trial among 90 participants and these results are presented today at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) annual congress in Hamburg. "Our results show that progesterone is safe and effective for transgender people. We're now able to prescribe it, in a trial setting, for those who have been taking oestradiol for at least year. We hope that ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Developing a stable and high-performance W-CoMnP electrocatalyst by mitigating the Jahn-Teller effect through W doping strategy

Recently, a research team led by Professor Ge Lei from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) developed a simple template-free method to prepare cobalt-based and manganese-based precursors, and then doped W during the synthesis of transition bimetallic phosphides to obtain the W-doped bimetallic phosphides. The resulting catalyst exhibits excellent bifunctionality and can can be utilized as an electrode in anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyzers. The research results have been published in the Chinese Journal of Catalysis. W-CoMnP exhibits excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance, with relatively low overpotentials ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Manipulating the dispersion of terahertz plasmon polaritons in topological insulator meta-elements

In the present era of modern nano-technologies, controlling light at the smallest scales is the key to faster communications, ultra-sensitive sensors, and revolutionary imaging systems. This is where Dirac plasmon polaritons (DPPs) come into play—exotic waves that blend light and electron motion in ultra-thin, two-dimensional materials. Unlike ordinary light waves, which are limited by the speed of light in free space, DPPs can squeeze light into spaces a hundred times smaller than its natural wavelength. This makes them incredibly ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Teen loneliness triggers ‘reward seeking’ behaviour

A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them towards social interaction, but when opportunities for connection are limited could lead them to pursue less healthy rewards like alcohol or drugs. When we feel socially isolated, our brain motivates us to seek rewards. Current theory holds that this is a beneficial evolutionary adaptation to help us reconnect with others. The University of Cambridge-led study found that people in their late teens are very sensitive ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

What stiffening lung tissue reveals about the earliest stages of fibrosis

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more than a slowing of the inevitable. But what if we could understand the very first steps of this disease before irreversible damage sets in? That’s the question Claudia Loebel, Reliance Industries Term Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, and Donia Ahmed, a doctoral student in Loebel’s lab, set out to answer. Their Nature Materials paper, a collaborative study spanning the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Drexel University, explores how subtle changes ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Kessler Foundation’s Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, honored with James J. Peters Distinguished Service Award from ASCIP

East Hanover, NJ – Sept 5, 2025 –Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, FASIA, of Kessler Foundation was awarded the prestigious James J. Peters Distinguished Service Award at the 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals (ASCIP) in Philadelphia today. He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions and accomplishments in spinal cord injury healthcare and his dedication to excellence in treating SCI patients. Dr. Dyson-Hudson is co-director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research and the Derfner-Lieberman Laboratory for Regenerative ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Tiny fish open new horizons for autism research.

Niigata, Japan - Researchers from Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan have revealed that environment influences social behaviours in autism. By using zebrafish that have a mutation in ube3a, a gene linked to Angelman Syndrome (AS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), they demonstrated that sensory processing of environmental information is determinant in the outcome of socializing or not. The findings suggest that environmental adjustment could hold therapeutic potential in ASD. ASD is characterized by difficulties in social interaction and repetitive behaviours. While genetics are known to play an important role, environmental ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

How eye-less corals see the light

Corals may lack eyes, but they are far from blind. These delicate animals sense light in ways that continue to amaze and inspire the scientific community. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Science have uncovered a unique light-sensing mechanism of reef-building corals, in which light-detecting proteins, known as opsins, use chloride ions to flip between UV and visible light sensitivity depending on the pH of their surroundings. Their findings suggest a unique functionality that expands our understanding of vision and photoreception across the animal kingdom. Animal vision relies on opsins, which are proteins that ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

Storing breast milk for specific times of day could support babies’ circadian rhythm

Breast milk is the first ‘super food’ for many babies. Full of vitamins, minerals, and other bioactive compounds, it helps build the young immune system and is widely considered the optimal source of infant nutrition. Not all mothers, however, have the opportunity to directly breastfeed multiple times during the day and night, and might use expressed milk stored for later. Breast milk delivers a variety of cues from the mother to the infant, including signals that are thought to influence babies’ circadian rhythms. The hormones and proteins involved in circadian signaling, however, may vary in breast milk concentration ...

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Science5 Sep 2025

New research uncovers a ‘ghost’ of the Australian bush

A new species of a native bushland marsupial – closely related to the kangaroo – has been discovered but is already likely extinct, new research shows. Analysing fossils collected from caves of the Nullarbor and southwest Australia, researchers from Curtin University, the Western Australian Museum and Murdoch University uncovered a completely new species of bettong as well as two new subspecies of woylie. Woylies are ecosystem engineers capable of turning over several tonnes of earth each year in search for their favourite mushroom treats. The cute kangaroo relatives, native to Western Australia, are the country’s ...

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Science4 Sep 2025

Less than half of England has access to Mounjaro on the NHS months after roll-out

Less than half of England has access to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) through their GP, despite the NHS roll-out of the weight-loss jab officially starting over two months ago, an investigation by The BMJ has found. Due to the large number of people who could benefit from tirzepatide - an estimated 3.4 million people - and the drug’s price, NHS England and its spending watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, agreed the injections would be rolled out in phases over a 12-year period, which commenced on 23 June 2025, explains Elisabeth Mahase. Yet just 18 out of 42 commissioning bodies (43%) across the country ...

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Science4 Sep 2025

Claims on baby food fail to stack up

From images of fruit to claims of being ‘sugar-free’, baby foods often feature misleading claims aimed at convincing parents the products are a healthy choice, new research shows. The study led by the University of Auckland, reviewed packaging of more than 200 processed foods for infants and toddlers and found all featured marketing and nutrition claims, which didn’t necessarily stack up when they examined the ingredients. See Nutrition and Dietetics. “These little packages are cluttered ...

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