In Nature, 21 leading scientists today prescribe ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation, underlining that doing so must become a top global priority to mitigate climate change and stop biodiversity loss.  The article breaks new ground by quantifying the impact by 2050 of reducing food waste by 75% and maximising sustainable ocean-based food production, measures that alone could spare an area larger than Africa.   According to the paper: “Food systems have not yet been fully incorporated into intergovernmental agreements, nor do they receive ...

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been found anywhere.     The Ledi-Geraru Research Project is led by scientists at Arizona State University and the site has revealed the oldest member of the genus Homo and the earliest Oldowan stone tools on the planet.  The research team concluded ...

Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired brain development in children, and increased infant mortality.  To combat that problem, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to fortify foods and beverages with iron, using small crystalline particles. These particles, known as metal-organic frameworks, could be sprinkled on food, added to staple foods such as bread, or incorporated into drinks like coffee and tea. “We’re ...

About The Study: This study found a nearly two-fold higher cervical cancer incidence, late-stage diagnosis, and mortality in counties with repeatedly low vs high cervical cancer screening coverage. Most counties with repeat low coverage were rural and lower income. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Trisha L. Amboree, PhD, MPH, email amboree@musc.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26709) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author ...

About The Study: In this study, a considerable proportion of patients with high-grade serous cancer missed opportunities for risk assessment with genetic testing and for surgical prevention. Given the lack of effective screening and limited treatment options for high-grade serous cancer, eradicating it requires addressing the full spectrum of missed opportunities.  Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Rebecca L. Stone, MD, email rstone15@jhmi.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit ...

Women in counties with repeatedly lower cervical cancer screening rates suffer nearly double the rate of cervical cancer diagnoses, particularly of late-stage disease, and death from cervical cancer, according to a new analysis from researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.   Trisha Amboree, Ph.D., is part of a team of researchers that has previously shown that cervical cancer incidence and death rates are higher in low-income and rural U.S. counties. Those papers analyzed the numbers but couldn’t explore the reasons why incidence and death were higher.   “We ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Over 69,000 people died in the disaster, nearly a third are thought to be from geohazards like the more than 60,000 landslides that rushed down the slopes of the Longmen Shan. After more than a decade and a half of work, scientists finally have an account of the fate of the landslide debris. Surveys of a reservoir downstream of the epicenter revealed how and how quickly the region’s ...

The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor may help shift the perception of human evolution from linear evolution to that of a tree with many branches, new UNLV research published today in the journal Nature shows. UNLV anthropologist Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered new fossils at a field site in Ethiopia that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago at the same place in Africa. The ...

Iceberg calving occurs when masses of ice break away from the edge of glaciers and crash into the ocean. This process is one of the major drivers of the rapid mass loss currently affecting the Greenland ice sheet. An international research team led by the University of Zurich (UZH) and the University of Washington (UW) has now used fiber-optic technology to measure for the first time how the impact of falling ice and its subsequent drift is driving the mixing of glacial melt with warmer subsurface seawater. “The warmer water increases seawater-induced melt erosion and eats away at the base of the vertical wall of ice at the glacier’s edge. This, in turn, ...

AMHERST, Mass. — An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 rivers in High-mountain Asia over a 15-year period. The paper, published in AGU Advances, reported that nearly 10% of these rivers saw an increase in flow, with an increasing proportion of that water coming from glacial ice melt compared to precipitation.     This water serves billions of people from China, India and Southeast Asia to Turkmenistan; is sensitive to climate change; and plays a key role in the sustainable development of this region through ...

“The ability of PCAIs to mitigate various cancer hallmarks in the various cancer cell lines has been well established.” BUFFALO, NY – August 13, 2025 – A new research paper was published in Volume 16 of Oncotarget on July 29, 2025, titled “PCAIs stimulate MAPK, PI3K/AKT pathways and ROS-Mediated apoptosis in aromatase inhibitor-resistant breast cancer cells while disrupting actin filaments and focal adhesion.” In this study, led by first author Jassy Mary ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief Institute’s latest LOINC® content update on August 12, introduces two new linguistic variants: Arabic, for users in Jordan, and Czech, for users in the Czech Republic. With these additions, LOINC is now available in 22 languages. “Expanding the number of supported languages improves the accessibility and adoption of LOINC around the world,” said Marjorie Rallins, DPM, M.S., executive director of Health Data Standards (HDS) at Regenstrief. “Making LOINC content available in more languages strengthens interoperability by enabling users to work with data in ...

LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment.   In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment, and almost half the patients were cancer-free a year later.  “Traditionally, these patients have had very limited treatment options. This new therapy is the most effective one reported to date for the most common form of bladder cancer,” said Sia Daneshmand, MD, director of urologic oncology with Keck ...

A public-private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what’s known as “magnetic shadows” in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma.  Known as HEAT-ML, the new AI could lay the foundation for software that significantly speeds up the design of future fusion systems. Such software could also enable good decision-making during fusion operations by adjusting the plasma so that ...

Late nights, alcohol, and smoking on weekends may be doing more than disrupting your Monday mornings, they could be triggering a newly identified sleep health concern known as ‘social apnea’, warn researchers from Flinders University. Published in the prestigious American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the international study introduces social apnea as a novel trend in sleep medicine referring to the weekend spike in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) severity, driven by lifestyle choices and irregular sleep patterns. The research, which analysed data from over 70,000 people worldwide, found a consistent ...

Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science has been awarded a $700,000 grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Gulf of America Division to support a novel research project aimed at advancing water quality monitoring in one of Florida’s most critical freshwater ecosystems. Led by Natalia Malina, Ph.D., principal investigator and an assistant professor in FAU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, the three-year project titled, “Developing ...

For years, scientists at Washington State University’s Puyallup Research & Extension Center have been working to untangle a mystery: Why do coho salmon in Puget Sound creeks seem to suffocate after rainstorms—rising to the surface, gaping, and swimming in circles before dying? In 2018, the die-offs were linked to bits of car tires shed by friction and washed into the stormwater runoff. In 2020, researchers zeroed in on one particular chemical culprit, a tire preservative known as 6PPD.   Now, research led by WSU PhD student Stephanie ...

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining attention as a safer and more affordable alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). While LIBs remain the most widely used energy storage technology, they come with safety risks due to their reliance on flammable organic electrolytes. In contrast, aqueous ZIBs use water-based electrolytes, making them non-flammable, environment friendly, and more affordable. Unfortunately, during charging and discharging, zinc-anodes in ZIBs undergo repeated plating and stripping that can trigger undesirable side reactions and sharp dendrite formation. This severely impacts their ...

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today that it has exceeded the university’s goal of raising more than $500 million through its largest fundraising effort in university history, Be Bold: A Campaign for Our Future. The ambitious campaign aimed to accelerate student success, advance research excellence and expand the university’s community impact. First conceived in 2017 and set to run for 10 years alongside the university’s strategic plan, the Be Bold campaign garnered support from more than 60,000 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists from the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have updated the state conservation status ranks, or S-ranks, of threatened and endangered plants in Illinois. The update includes some plants not recorded in the state for decades and finds many that, while still threatened, are doing better than previously thought. Their findings are detailed in the Natural Areas Journal. The 331 plants on the list are as fascinating as they are rare, said Brian Charles, an INHS scientific specialist in botany who led the multiyear effort. They include ...

DARIEN, IL – The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is accepting abstracts and innovation award entries as part of Sleep Medicine Disruptors 2025, which will be held in-person in Austin, Texas, and livestreamed Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14-15.  This biennial event attracts clinicians, scientists, technology developers, start-up founders, venture capitalists, and other health care innovators. Speakers will explore technology innovation, artificial intelligence, and other disruptions that are poised to change the landscape of sleep health, patient care, and health care delivery. ...

Hamilton, ON (August 13, 2025) --- A study published in Nature Biotechnology reveals a powerful new use for artificial intelligence: designing small, drug-like molecules that can stick to and break down harmful proteins in the body — even when scientists don’t know what those proteins look like. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for diseases that have long resisted traditional drug development, including certain cancers, brain disorders, and viral infections. The study was published on August 13, 2025 by a multi-institutional team of researchers from McMaster University, Duke University, and Cornell University. The AI tool, called PepMLM, ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as laboratories, showing how stars of different masses and ages behave. At the same time, some stars known as “variable stars”, regularly change in brightness, and  their flickers and pulses help scientists learn about the physics inside stars and about the wider galaxy. Until now, astronomers studied clusters and variable stars separately, and ...

Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security numbers, without adequate safeguards, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and Mediterranea University of ​​Reggio Calabria. The study, which will be presented and published as part of the USENIX Security Symposium, is the first large-scale analysis of generative AI browser assistants and privacy. It uncovered widespread tracking, profiling, and personalisation ...

Traditional veterinary practices utilize rectal measurements to assess body temperature, but this method is stressful and does not capture continuous changes in body temperature. Fortunately, recent advancements have introduced infrared thermography, which can non-invasively measure body temperatures. However, it is still difficult to continuously monitor temperature changes over time with this method. Moreso, parts of the image data are set manually, which can cause data variations due to setting positions. These drawbacks ...