(New York, May 29, 2025) – Dr. Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, the William J. Ledger, M.D. Distinguished Associate Professor of Infection and Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology, both from Weill Cornell Medicine, have been named inaugural recipients of the Pershing Square Foundation’s 2025 Ovarian Cancer Challenge Grant. The challenge grant provides $750,000 in funding over three years to support innovative research into ovarian cancer ...

Wyss Institute at Harvard University Announces Appointment of Natalie Artzi, Ph.D.,  to Associate Institute Director Dr. Artzi will work closely with the Wyss Founding Director Don Ingber and the Wyss executive and senior leadership teams in shaping the strategic direction of the Institute  MAY 29,2025  – (Boston, MA) – The Wyss Institute at Harvard University, its Board of Directors, and Executive Leadership are pleased to announce that Natalie Artzi, Ph.D. has been appointed to a newly created position as Associate Institute Director ...

The global measles outbreak must trigger an urgent debate into whether a vaccine should be recommended earlier to better protect against the highly contagious disease during infancy, a new review states. The systematic review, led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), found vaccinating children from as early as four months of age for measles warranted serious discussion given that only 30 per cent of babies in low- and middle-income countries were protected by maternal antibodies by four months of age. Concerningly, this is well below the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of a first measles dose between 9-12 months old. The ...

Rising atmospheric CO2 levels from fossil fuel dependence have intensified climate threats, driving demand for technologies that convert CO2 into value-added chemicals. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (CO2RR) holds promise but faces challenges such as high energy costs, low product selectivity, and competition from hydrogen evolution reactions (HER). A breakthrough by researchers at Tongji University, China, introduces a new catalyst design that overcomes these limitations, paving the way for green chemistry solutions.   The ...

Herndon, VA, May 29, 2025 – Many policy discussions on AI safety regulation have focused on the need to establish regulatory “guardrails” to protect the public from the risks of AI technology. In a new paper published in the journal Risk Analysis, two experts argue that, instead of imposing guardrails, policymakers should demand “leashes.”   Director of the Penn Program on Regulation and professor at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Cary Coglianese and University of ...

High levels of income inequality weaken support for raising the minimum wage, which in turn could further worsen income inequality as people believe this is the way things should be, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.  The researchers analyzed data from more than 130,000 protests across the country and conducted eight other experiments that found that an “is-to-ought” reasoning error may be to blame where people view situations as they are and then infer that is the way they should be. That can have ...

Lateral walking exercise is beneficial for the hip abductor enhancement. Accurate gait recognition and continuous hip joint angle prediction are essential for the control of exoskeletons. “The hip exoskeleton is a promising tool for enhancing muscle activation during lateral walking exercises by providing controlled resistance a support. This ensures adequate muscle exercise for effective rehabilitation. Our team has previously designed a resistance lateral walking exercise exoskeleton. Accurate gait recognition and continuous joint angle prediction are the precondition of the good control performance of the exoskeleton.” Explained study author Wujing Cao, a professor at Chinese ...

Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead can harm the human brain and nervous system — especially in young children. To empower people to detect lead contamination in their own homes, a team of researchers developed an accessible, handheld water-testing system called the E-Tongue. This device, described in ACS Omega, was tested through a citizen science project across four Massachusetts towns. “I was driven by the reality that families could be unknowingly exposed to lead,” says Pradeep ...

Young consumers who shop online and have FOMO (fear of missing out) tend to feel lower levels of social, psychological and financial well-being, a new study finds – but there’s one important caveat.   Researchers found that having a stronger attachment to a social media influencer is linked to younger consumers having improved feelings of well-being in those areas.   The findings show a complex dynamic for young people who follow the latest trends in fashion as they shop online ...

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Park, Sun-Kyu) has successfully developed a real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system utilizing inexpensive optical sensors and a novel labeling logic. The system achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art AI models such as Gradient Boosting and Random Forest. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose significant threats to water quality, public health, and aquatic ecosystems. Conventional detection methods such as satellite imaging and UAV-based remote sensing are cost-prohibitive ...

Nanomedicines, especially those based on nanoparticles, are revolutionizing healthcare in terms of both diagnostics and therapeutics. These particles, often containing metals like iron or gold, can serve as contrast agents in medical imaging, act as nutritional supplements, and even function as carriers for drug delivery. Thanks to their unique properties plus careful engineering, nanomedicines can reach and accumulate in places within the body that conventional medicines cannot, making them promising for cancer detection and treatment. However, the same characteristics that make nanomedicines ...

Montreal, May 29, 2025 - Caffeine is not only found in coffee, but also in tea, chocolate, energy drinks and many soft drinks, making it one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. In a study published in April in Nature Communications Biology, a team of researchers from Université de Montréal shed new light on how caffeine can modify sleep and influence the brain's recovery — both physical and cognitive — overnight. The research was led by Philipp Thölke, ...

CLEVELAND—CAR T cell immunotherapy, which uses a patient’s own modified immune cells to find and destroy cancer cells, can produce dramatic results when treating blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia and shows promise against solid tumors. But harvesting T cells, a type of white blood cell that helps the immune system fight germs and protect against disease, is difficult and expensive—limiting the use of this potentially life-saving therapy to major cancer centers and after other treatments have failed. Now a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University is developing a new device to harvest T cells that might make CAR ...

SHERBROOKE, Canada (May 29, 2025) – Nord Quantique, a pioneer in the field of quantum error correction, today announces a first in applied physics. The company has successfully developed bosonic qubit technology with multimode encoding, which outlines a path to a major reduction in the number of qubits required for quantum error correction (QEC). The result is an approach to quantum computing which will deliver smaller yet more powerful systems that consume a fraction of the energy. These smaller systems are also simpler to develop to utility-scale due to their size and lower requirements ...

Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children’s tumours and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment options. Concentrating on a type of childhood kidney cancer, known as Wilms tumour, an international team genetically sequenced multiple tumours at a resolution that was previously not possible. This collaboration included researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, the Oncode Institute in the Netherlands, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Cambridge University ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new material developed at Cornell University could significantly improve the delivery and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines by replacing a commonly used ingredient that may trigger unwanted immune responses in some people. Thanks to their ability to train cells to produce virus-killing proteins, mRNA vaccines have gained popularity over the last five years for their success in reducing the severity of COVID-19 infection. One method for delivering the mRNA to cells is by packaging it inside fatty spheres, called lipid nanoparticles, that protect it from being degraded. However, a common component of ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the “AMOC,” is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate by transporting heat from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere. The AMOC also modulates regional weather, from the mild summers in Europe to the monsoon seasons in Africa and India. Climate models have long predicted that global warming will cause the AMOC to weaken, with some projecting substantial weakening ...

MISTRAL is a new generation receiver installed on the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) and built by the Sapienza University of Rome for the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) as part of the upgrade of the radio telescope for the study of the Universe at high frequencies, funded by a PON (National Operational Program) project, concluded in 2023 and now providing its first significant scientific results. MISTRAL stands for “MIllimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids”. MISTRAL is an innovative receiver in many ways. Radio astronomy ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes research efforts to “future-proof” the crops that are essential to feeding a hungry world in a changing climate. Long, who has spent decades studying the process of photosynthesis and finding ways to improve it, provides an overview of key scientific findings that offer a ray of hope. Higher temperatures, more frequent and longer droughts, catastrophic rainfall events and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels all ...

LONDON, England Revolutionary Platform Sets New Benchmark for Transparency and Compliance in Diagnostic AI As the May 26th CE-IVDR compliance deadline comes into effect, Diagnostics.ai launches the industry’s first fully-transparent machine learning platform for clinical real-time PCR diagnostics – demonstrating exactly how each result was achieved, a first for molecular-testing machine learning. The technology is backed by over 15 years of experience and millions of successfully processed samples with >99.9% proven accuracy. The CE-IVDR Strategic Advantage Platform is Diagnostics.ai's ...

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study from researchers at UCL, drug discovery company LinkGevity and the European Space Agency (ESA). In the study, published in Nature Oncogene, a world-leading international team of scientists and clinicians explore the potential of necrosis – when cells die unexpectedly as a result of infection, injury or disease – to reshape our understanding and treatment of age-related conditions. Challenging prevailing ...

According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately 1 in 6 children in the United States have developmental disabilities which include physical, learning, language or behavior-related disabilities. Students with disabilities often receive accommodations (how students access and learn the same content as their classmates) at school, but teachers rarely explain them to typically-developing classmates. Children with disabilities are increasingly included in general education classrooms alongside typically-developing classmates. Accommodations ...

Highlights - The world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber, achieving a transmission rate of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 km. - Achieved using a newly developed standard 19-core optical fiber, equivalent to 19 standard fibers, low loss across multiple wavelength bands, and the development of an optical amplification relay function compatible with this fiber. - This is a major step to realize future long-distance, large-capacity optical communication systems. Abstract An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and ...

Many sharks, particularly those that live in the open oceans, are hunters rather than scavengers. Despite this, a small portion of their diet comes from scavenging, a behavior they may engage in when the opportunity arises. Now, writing in Frontiers in Fish Science, researchers have described an unusual aggregation of sharks coming together to feed on a carcass that had decayed to mostly flesh and blubber. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to document a feeding aggregation of tiger sharks and oceanic whitetip sharks scavenging concurrently, and peacefully, on a carcass,” said first author Dr Molly Scott, a marine researcher ...

New archaeological findings along a little-known medieval wall in eastern Mongolia reveal that frontier life was more complex than previously believed. Excavations show evidence of permanent habitation, agriculture, and cultural exchange, suggesting that these walls were not solely defensive structures but part of a broader system of regional control and interaction during the Jin dynasty. Link to pictures and video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1krCqKwVHzMIA-EaU7AhES47HikEgElmp?usp=sharing A team of international archaeologists ...