The American Meteorological Society continuously publishes research on climate, weather, and water in its 12 journals. Many of these articles are available for early online access–they are peer-reviewed, but not yet in their final published form. Below are some recent examples of online and early-online research. JOURNAL ARTICLES Remote Effects of Urbanization on Temperatures in Adjacent Cities: A Case Study in Utah Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Adjacent urban areas appear to exacerbate each other’s ...

Chemotherapy activates a stress sensor in immune cells, triggering inflammation and nerve damage, which may help explain why many cancer patients experience debilitating pain as a side effect, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers. Up to half of all patients receiving chemotherapy experience chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), which causes tingling, numbness and pain in the hands and feet. Since there are limited options to address ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle". Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another. According to recent research from Binghamton University’s Biological Sciences program, this strategy may prevent the cockroaches from drying out. The new study, “Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect”, recently appeared in the journal Ethology, and was co-authored by Binghamton University Assistant ...

Across the Rio Grande–Bravo basin, which runs from Colorado to Mexico, water stress has been building for years. Reservoirs that once relied on steady snowmelt are now noticeably lower. Aquifers that supported farming communities for generations continue to decline, dropping faster than they can recharge. In some stretches, the river, which runs nearly 3,000 kilometers, disappears into dry sand before reaching its endpoint. Despite this growing strain, a full, basin-wide picture of how the river’s water is used and how much is being lost didn’t exist. People could see the symptoms, but ...

With winter approaching and people spending more time indoors, the quality of the air they breathe becomes increasingly important. Especially during cold and flu season. Researchers at UBC Okanagan are exploring an air-cleaning device that can remove airborne pathogens, offering a powerful new tool for reducing the spread of respiratory diseases in enclosed spaces. The traditional approach to alleviating transmission of infectious diseases involves improving a building’s ventilation system to regulate large-scale airflow, explains study co-author Dr. Sunny Li, professor in the School of Engineering. Personalized ventilation systems ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is one of the leading causes of dementia worldwide, and currently has no definitive cure. Although antibody-based therapies that target amyloid β (Aβ) have recently been developed, their clinical effectiveness remains limited. These treatments can be costly and cause immune-related side effects, highlighting the need for safer, affordable, and widely accessible approaches that can slow the progression of AD. In a new study, made available online on October 30, 2025, in Neurochemistry International, researchers from Kindai ...

A team of researchers at IOCB Prague headed by Dr. Tomáš Slanina has developed a new method for labeling molecules with fluorescent dyes that surpasses existing approaches in both precision and stability. The new fluorescent label remains covalently bonded to its target molecule and does not fall apart even under demanding conditions inside living cells. This allows scientists to track labeled molecules over long periods with high reliability – an advantage for research in biology, chemistry, and medicine. The study was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves cognitive function. The mechanism involves recruiting brain cells known as astrocytes, star shaped cells in the brain, to remove the toxic amyloid plaques that build up in many Alzheimer’s disease brains. Increasing the production of Sox9, a key protein that regulates astrocyte functions during aging, triggered ...

PHILADELPHIA – A pioneering preclinical study has shown that CAR T cell therapy—a personalized form of immunotherapy used in cancer treatment—could be a highly effective tool against atherosclerosis, the condition where a build-up of plaque in the arteries reduces blood flow, leading to heart attacks and strokes. In tests in mice, the experimental CAR T cells blocked inflammation in arteries, preventing more than two-thirds of the plaque buildup seen in untreated controls. The research, led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was published today in Circulation. “Our ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped while the magma was rising. Gases that were dissolved in the magma in lower strata – due to the higher pressure – escape when the pressure drops and form bubbles. The more bubbles there are in the magma, the lighter it becomes and the faster it rises. This can cause the magma to tear apart, leading to an explosive eruption.  This process can be likened to a bottle of champagne: while the bottle is closed and therefore pressurised, the carbon dioxide remains ...

In research, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are derived from skin, urine, or blood samples and developed into other cells, like heart tissue, that researchers want to study. Because of the similarities between certain dog and human diseases, canine iPS cells have potential uses  in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.　 Research on iPS cells is challenging because the cells are extremely sensitive to culture conditions. Before they are developed into other cells, iPS cells are in an undifferentiated state. At this stage, the cells are grown in a culture medium that provides the essential nutrients, growth factors, and signaling molecules that they ...

As wearable electronics migrate toward real-time health monitoring and seamless human–machine interfaces, conventional hydrogels freeze, dry out and fracture under daily conditions. Now, a multidisciplinary team led by Prof. Sang-Jae Kim (Jeju National University) has unveiled a CoN-CNT/PVA/GLE organogel sensor that marries sub-zero toughness with AI-grade pattern recognition. The device delivers 5.75 kPa-1 sensitivity across 0–20 kPa, heals in 0.24 s, and classifies handwritten English letters at 98 % accuracy—offering a robust, bio-compatible platform for next-generation soft robotics ...

As fertilizer demand rises and nitrate pollution spreads, turning waste NO₃⁻ into green NH₃ has become urgent. Now, researchers from Guizhou University, Hunan Agricultural University and Shanghai University, led by Professor Jili Yuan, Professor Wei Li and Dr Liang Wang, report a selective-etching route to RuM (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) nanoalloys that deliver 100 % Faradaic efficiency for neutral ammonia electro-synthesis at only −0.1 V vs RHE—outperforming most catalysts reported to date. Why RuM Nanoalloys Matter    • Energy Efficiency: Alloying ...

As electric vehicles, satellites and wearable electronics push into sub-zero environments, conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) lose most of their energy and power, while lithium plating threatens safety. Now, researchers from Chang’an University and Queensland University of Technology, led by Professor Limin Geng, Professor Weijia Meng and Dr Jiaye Ye, have published a forward-looking review on low-temperature (LT) electrolytes that keep LIBs charging and discharging down to −80 °C. This work offers a systematic ...

As artificial-intelligence workloads explode, the energy cost and latency of shuttling data between discrete sensors, memory and processors have become critical bottlenecks. Now, researchers from the School of Integrated Circuits at Shandong University, led by Professor Jialin Meng and Professor Tianyu Wang, have published a forward-looking review on two-dimensional MXene materials that act simultaneously as ultra-sensitive sensors and neuromorphic synapses. This work charts a direct route toward self-powered, edge-intelligent systems that see, feel ...

UC Davis researchers are leading a $5.5 million study to better understand how children with Down syndrome develop expressive communication — the skills used to share what we want, think or feel. Angela John Thurman, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the UC Davis MIND Institute, is leading the research. The five-year project is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. “Most children with Down syndrome have delays in developing expressive communication,” ...

Native Australian animals range from high-hopping kangaroos to fast-running emus – but clever little bettongs also have a special ability to find and eat the food they love.   Flinders University researchers have discovered the secrets behind a superpower of these tiny relatives of kangaroos which allows them to crack open seeds that would break the jaws of most animals. They hope the research will help conservation efforts, including finding suitable locations to reintroduce populations severely impacted by predation and habitat loss.   The new study, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, reveals ...

The road to glory in the Australian Football League (AFL) is highly competitive, with as few as 0.01% of more than 640,000 young footballers and athletes from around Australia selected in the annual draft process.  With so many young players pinning their hopes on selection, sport experts from Flinders University have surveyed more than 400 young male Australian footballers (16-18 years old) to evaluate the psychological impact on their mental health and wellbeing during a draft selection year. In the midst of adolescence and crucial stages of life, striving to compete at these levels raises concerns for the effects on young male players, says Associate Professor ...

A significant proportion of under 5s in Nigeria may be being exposed to skin lightning products, if the results of a semi-urban community survey are indicative, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Open.   Most (80%) of the respondents’ children exposed to skin bleaching products were under 2 years old, and despite good knowledge of the health risks of the practice, these were trumped by aesthetic preferences for lighter skin tones, the survey responses show.   The cosmetic use of skin lightening products has become increasingly common globally, with very high ...

A new study has found African lions produce not one, but two distinct types of roars - a discovery set to transform wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. Researchers at the University of Exeter have identified a previously unclassified “intermediary roar” alongside the famous full-throated roar. The study, published in Ecology and Evolution, used artificial intelligence to automatically differentiate between lion roars for the first time. This new approach had a 95.4 per cent accuracy and significantly reduced human bias to improve the identification of individual lions. Lead author Jonathan Growcott from the University of Exeter said: ...

A new Australian study has smashed the myth that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT could soon replace society’s most creative playwrights, authors, songwriters, artists and scriptwriters. The existing large language models (LLMs) have a built-in mathematical ceiling on their creative capacity, meaning they will never rival the originality or ingenuity of the most creative individuals. That’s the finding from creativity expert David Cropley, a Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of South Australia, whose study on the mathematical limits of generative AI has been published in the Journal ...

 Loggerhead turtles are able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn’t clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are born with. Now researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the Earth’s magnetic map to tell them where they are on their epic migration routes. Setting off from the beach of their birth, hatchling loggerhead turtles embark on some of the world’s most impressive migrations, covering thousands ...

Key takeaways  Smartphone stethoscopes, voice-detected heart failure, training using physical and virtual hearts, as well as early detection of cardiovascular disease using blood spots are among the innovations being presented at the first-ever ESC Digital & AI Summit.   Together with technology, healthcare, and innovation experts, the summit will address the challenges of implementing digital health solutions while maintaining ethical integrity.  Berlin, 21 November 2025: Smartphone stethoscopes, voice-detected heart failure, training using 3D-printed and virtual hearts and early detection of cardiovascular disease using blood spots are among the innovations ...

While artificial intelligence technology is increasingly being used — formally and informally — to support medical diagnoses, its utility in emergency medical settings remains an open question. Can AI support doctors in situations where split-second decision making can mean the difference between life and death? Researchers at Drexel University broached the question with clinicians at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to better understand how and when the technology ...

To take maximum advantage of the added days, months, and years people enjoy because of modern health care and healthier habits, they need to achieve competency in several areas necessary for longer lives, states a new Gerontological Society of America report, “Health and Wealth in the Era of Longevity.” The areas covered by the report include: Financial literacy: Having the knowledge, skill, and competence to make informed decisions about money, including how to earn, save, spend, borrow, and invest it effectively. Longevity literacy: Having a clear and ...