NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 2025 – Offshore wind farms have the potential for large impacts on clean energy generation, as wind speeds are higher at sea than on land. However, this benefit comes at a high cost for marine life, which can suffer greatly during the installation of offshore wind foundations. Junfei Li, from Purdue University, will present work on mitigating the noise pollution during monopile offshore wind farm installation Tuesday, May 20, at 1:00 p.m. CT as part of the joint 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the first cells different from chemical reactions occurring in the environment is a membrane. By investigating what properties these early membranes may have had, scientists can better understand how life began and evolved into the diversity of organisms we have today. An important feature of membranes is what they allow to pass through ...

Embargoed for Release Tuesday, May 20, 2025 2:00 p.m. ET Contact: NIH Office of Communications and Public Liaison 301-496-5787 NIHPress@nih.gov       For the first time, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified patterns of metabolites in blood and urine that can be used as an objective measure of an individual’s consumption of energy from ultra-processed foods. Metabolites are left after the body converts food into energy, a process ...

Global partnerships and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be key to addressing the growing challenges posed by food contamination, a new study reveals. The study, co-authored by Professor Lord John Krebs, former Chair of the UK Food Standards Agency, analyses 116 peer-reviewed papers published between 2019 and 2024. It reveals that that a range of biological, chemical, and physical contaminants combined with emerging risks including demographic changes, economic trends, and environmental degradation could lead to increased health hazards for people around the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A word of caution to rice growers: the herbicide fluridone has become a valuable tool in fighting Palmer pigweed, but it can cause injury to some rice cultivars, depending on when it is used. Registered under the trade name Brake by SePRO Corporation, fluridone is a residual herbicide used to suppress grasses and broadleaf weeds before they emerge, also known as a preemergence herbicide. In 2023, fluridone was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use in rice at the three-leaf stage and onward. It had already ...

Christopher Kane, MD, CEO of the UC San Diego Health Physician Group and senior assistant vice chancellor of clinical affairs for UC San Diego Health Sciences, was recently appointed to the position of president of the American Board of Urology (ABU), the organization that sets and maintains the standards for the specialty certification of more than 11,000 urologists in the United States.  Kane is the first physician from UC San Diego Health to serve in this leadership role with the ABU. He has served as a trustee for the organization for five years and became eligible for the presidency in the final year of his six-year tenure. The organization’s mission ...

SAN ANTONIO — May 20, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has achieved a significant milestone, reaching new temperature records for testing materials in high-pressure environments. While conducting material testing for a high-pressure, high-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) turbine, SwRI achieved unprecedented conditions of 1,150 degrees Celsius (2,100 degrees Fahrenheit) at 300 bar (4,350 psi). These are the highest published temperature and pressure conditions ever reached in sCO2 materials testing. In 2020, SwRI received a $6.4 million contract ...

The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of California, Davis, first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at Yosemite National Park. “At night, you could look out over the pond and see a constellation of eyes blinking back at you,” said UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Sidney Woodruff, lead author of a study chronicling the effects of removal. “Their honking noise is iconic, and it drowns out native species’ calls.” But the ponds of Yosemite sound different today, with a chorus of native species making themselves heard. The researchers’ study, published ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025 MATERNAL AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURE WORSENS ASTHMA SEVERITY FOR OFFSPRING Study also finds exposure leads to epigenetic changes that can persist for generations. Session:  C19—Spatial and Single-Cell Analysis of Lung Disease: Bridging Early Mechanisms to Therapeutic Gaps An Epigenetic Association Between Heightened Airway Hyperreactivity and Maternal Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution Date and Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location:  Room 3006/3008 (West Building, Level 3), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – A mother’s exposure to air pollution during pregnancy ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025 POST-INTENSIVE CARE SYNDROME LINKED TO LONG-TERM DEFICITS Older age, frailty increase risk more than clinical factors, study finds Session:  C17—Delirium, Disparities, and Disability: Advancing Equity in Critical Illness Outcomes Characterizing Critical Illness Recovery Trajectories: Exploring Risk Factors for Post Intensive Care Syndrome Date and Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location:  Room 2009/2011 (West Building, Level 2), Moscone Center ATS 2025, ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025   Session: C17 - Delirium, Disparities, and Disability: Advancing Equity in Critical Illness Outcomes Achieving Health Equity in Delirium Detection in Spanish-speaking Latinx ICU Patients Date and Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:15 a.m. PT Location: Room 2009/2011 (West Building, Level 2), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – Delirium is common in the ICU, and guidelines call for daily screening. Now a new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference suggests that standard screening tests may result in the ...

LA JOLLA (May 20, 2025)—Salk Professor Terrence Sejnowski, head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and holder of the Francis Crick Chair, has been elected to the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society. These prestigious elections recognize his outstanding leadership and extraordinary achievement in computational neuroscience. Sejnowski is one of the newest Foreign Members of the Royal Society, an independent scientific academy in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific academy ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -Cornell University researchers have developed an inexpensive and potentially scalable approach that uses a commercially available peroxide to bind polyethylene and polypropylene together, thereby creating a more useful, high-quality plastic recycling additive. The findings were published May 19 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The co-lead authors were postdoctoral researcher Moritz Kränzlein and doctoral student Shilin Cui. The project was led by Geoffrey Coates, professor of chemistry and chemical biology. The ...

Middle-aged and older adults who experience pain are more likely to have had worsening symptoms of depression up to eight years before the pain began, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The study, published in the journal eClinicalMedicine, suggests that among this age group, treatment for depression might help to prevent or reduce later aches and pains. The researchers compared survey data from 3,668 adults aged over 50 who often experienced moderate to severe pain with a matched group of the same number who did not. In the pain group, they found that depressive symptoms got rapidly worse in the eight years prior ...

Women of African or South Asian genetic ancestry tend to develop breast cancer and die at a younger age than women of European ancestry, according to new research by Queen Mary University of London. The study, which looked at clinical and genetic data from over 7,000 women with breast cancer, also found important genetic differences in these women’s cancers that could impact their diagnosis and treatment. The findings, published today (20 May) in Nature Communications, highlight the underrepresentation of people of non-European genetic ancestry as participants in cancer ...

SAN ANTONIO — May 20, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will significantly expand its testing and research capabilities with a new hydrocarbon research facility. It will offer megawatt-scale testing of machinery and energy systems powered by hydrocarbons and other flammable gases. SwRI’s new 90,000-square-foot facility will evaluate a range of hydrocarbon machinery for efficiency, safety and durability. The facility is designed for the safe use of flammable gases including hydrogen, hydrocarbons, organic fluids and refrigerants. Hydrocarbons like natural ...

DALLAS, May 20, 2025 — Building on its work to study effective ways to incorporate healthy food into care for diet-related chronic disease, the American Heart Association, a global force changing the future of health for all, today announced grant awards of nearly $1.2 million to 12 scientific researchers as part of its Health Care by Food™ initiative, a pioneering 10-year endeavor to make food is medicine reimbursable, scalable and sustainable. The research awards will provide support for ...

bout The Study: The findings of this study suggest that while most clinicians report screening youths for substance use disorders at least sometimes, a substantial proportion screened only intermittently. Efforts to improve screening rates through education and systems-based practice changes may facilitate offering anticipatory guidance and substance use disorder treatment in all youth-serving clinical settings. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Kathleen Ragan-Burnett, MSPH, email xwy3@cdc.gov. To access the embargoed study: ...

LA JOLLA, CA—Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that has been identified in more than 110 countries around the world. The virus typically causes flu-like symptoms, but it can also trigger chronic, severe joint pain in some people. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are working to understand how a viral infection can cause persistent joint pain that closely resembles rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease. In a new study, LJI scientists share a critical first ...

The authors detail how a balanced microbiome (eubiosis) sustains immune tolerance and systemic health, while dysbiosis disturbs gut barrier integrity and promotes inflammatory cascades. This section underscores Toll-like receptors, the gut-lung axis, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) as mediators of microbiome–immune dialogue. Case studies link microbiota composition to diseases ranging from COVID-19 and chronic lung conditions to autoimmune disorders, mental health, and even zoonotic infections like leptospirosis. These findings emphasize ...

Regional and urban economics employs theoretical modeling to examine how real-world factors shape regional development. These models provide a rigorous framework for evidence-based policymaking, offering insights to promote balanced economic growth and foster sustainable development. New updates to an existing theoretical model incorporate environmental pollution and a variable called firm heterogeneity which captures productivity distribution patterns among industrial and manufacturing firms, to better analyze how industrial cluster forms, where manufacturers operate, and where workers choose to live. ...

A research paper by scientists at Beijing Institute of Technology presented a magnetic shaftless propeller-like millirobot (MSPM) that possesses the capabilities of rotating-based multimodal 3-dimensional motion and cargo transportation with untethered manipulation. The research paper, published on Mar. 12, 2025 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems. In recent years, magnetic miniature robots have shown great potential in biomedical, environmental remediation, micro control and other fields, especially in thrombosis treatment, drug delivery, endoscopic ...

“These findings suggest that consuming foods categorized as methyl adaptogens may reduce markers of epigenetic aging.” BUFFALO, NY — May 20, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 17, Issue 4, on April 17, 2025, titled “Dietary associations with reduced epigenetic age: a secondary data analysis of the methylation diet and lifestyle study.” In this study, researchers led by first author Jamie L. Villanueva from the University of Washington and the National University of Natural Medicine, along ...

(Toronto, May 20, 2025) JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new theme issue titled “Opportunities and Challenges in the Applications of AI In Public Health Informatics” in its open access journal Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. The premier, peer-reviewed journal is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), DOAJ, Sherpa/Romeo, Web of Science Core Collection: Emerging Sources Citation Index and Scopus. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in public health informatics presents both significant challenges and opportunities. AI has the potential to revolutionize public health by enabling better data ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom. The study was published today in BioScience. “We’re at the start of an existential crisis for the Earth’s wild animals,” said Oregon State University’s William Ripple, who led the study. “Up till now, the primary cause of biodiversity loss has been the twin threats of overexploitation and habitat alteration, but as climate change intensifies, we expect it to become a third ...