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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Essentially all cells in an organism’s body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it will be and its function. How rapidly gene expression in a single cell changes over time can provide insight into how cells might become more specialized, but current measurement approaches are limited. A new method developed by researchers at Penn State and Yale University incorporates spatial information from the cell as well as data from cells processed at different times, improving researchers’ ability to understand the nuances of gene expression ...

The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren’t directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially among single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea. A team led by researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have now estimated that an average cell line acquires and retains roughly 13 percent of its genes every million years via this process of lateral gene transfer. That equates to about 250 genes swapped per liter of seawater every day. The new study, recently published in The ISME Journal, provides the first quantitative analysis of gene transfer rates across an entire microbiome. It calls into question the strict classification ...

The U.S. Air Force awarded startup SkyNano, led by Innovation Crossroads alumna Anna Douglas, a $1.25 million contract to advance its CO2-to-carbon nanotube technology as part of a project to develop low-cost, battery-grade graphite. SkyNano’s partners include American Energy Technologies Company and Eonix, led by Innovation Crossroads alumnus Don DeRosa. SkyNano and Eonix were recruited to Knoxville through Innovation Crossroads, a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  “In addition to accessing ...

Some of the populations with the highest risk for Alzheimer’s disease remain greatly underrepresented in clinical trials—and a new study helps explain why. Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that participants from these high-risk groups are less likely to have elevated amyloid in the brain based on blood levels of p-tau217.  Elevated amyloid is a requirement for clinical trials of Alzheimer’s disease treatments, and amyloid is known to accumulate in the brain years before any signs of cognitive decline. The study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), builds on earlier research with similar findings, but leverages ...

    This review article highlights the transformative potential of in vivo CAR T cell therapy in addressing the limitations of traditional CAR T cell production. This innovative approach could revolutionize cancer treatment, offering a more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective alternative to conventional methods.   CAR T cell therapy has shown remarkable success in treating hematological malignancies; however, current production methods are laborious, time-consuming, and expensive. Traditional in vitro CAR T cell production typically requires 2–3 weeks and involves complex processes, including T cell isolation, activation, genetic modification, ...

  Recent advances in cancer treatment highlight the potential of natural medicines to target the tumor vascular microenvironment, offering a novel strategy to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis. Unlike conventional therapies that directly target tumor cells, natural compounds focus on normalizing tumor vasculature and inhibiting pathological angiogenesis, crucial processes in cancer progression. This innovative approach holds promise in enhancing anti-cancer therapies while minimizing side effects.   The tumor vascular microenvironment plays a pivotal role in cancer development. Tumor blood vessels are often irregular, immature, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In the quest to address infertility, Cornell University researchers have developed a groundbreaking device that could simplify and automate oocyte cumulus removal, a critical step in assisted reproductive technologies. Their vibration-powered chip not only simplifies a complex procedure but also extends it to areas of the world lacking skilled embryologists or well-funded labs—reducing overall costs. This offers hope to millions of couples struggling with infertility – and makes fertility treatments more accessible worldwide. “This ...

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 ...

Scientists transform plastic waste into efficient CO2 capture materials From waste to valuable resource: Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as they address two of the world’s biggest challenges: plastic pollution and the climate crisis. As CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere keep rising regardless of years of political intentions to limit emissions, the world’s ...

The study, published today (5 September) in the journal Science Advances, indicates how the heating in North America can trigger remote effects in Asia – this could be further exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming and human modification of the North American land surface. The authors of the study say their findings emphasise the importance of global cooperation in addressing climate change. Using climate models, scientists from the University of Bristol and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

  Agreement focuses on rimiducid, an agent used to activate certain safety switch technologies in cell therapies Phoenix receives a supply of rimiducid and support to seek regulatory approval of a new proprietary injectable formulation, retaining exclusive rights for use in its novel in vivo gene therapy programs MD Anderson receives rights to the new formulation of rimiducid for use with its inducible switches exclusively in ex vivo cell therapies Collaborators hope to use these tools to further enhance cell and gene therapies HOUSTON and MIAMI, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Phoenix SENOLYTIX, Inc., today announced ...

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the solar system. As a source of clean energy, hydrogen is well-suited for sustainable development, and Earth is a natural hydrogen factory. However, most hydrogen vents reported to date are small, and the geological processes responsible for hydrogen formation—as well as the quantities that can be preserved in geological settings—remain unclear. To better understand the availability of geological hydrogen, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and their collaborators discovered and analyzed a large pipe swarm—a ...

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that insect populations are rapidly declining even in relatively undisturbed landscapes, raising concerns about the health of ecosystems that depend on them.  Keith Sockman, associate professor of biology at UNC-Chapel Hill, quantified the abundance of flying insects during 15 seasons between 2004 and 2024 on a subalpine meadow in Colorado, a site with 38 years of weather data and minimal direct human impact. He discovered an average annual decline of 6.6% in insect abundance, amounting to a ...

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 <15 °C and insufficient for extreme environments such as deserts with >60 °C swings; and scalability constraints, with most prototypes restricted ...

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 ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team’s advancement is a new example of a “time crystal.” That’s the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion. The researchers aren’t the first to make a time crystal, but their creation is the first that humans can actually ...

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 ...

Since their discovery at Drexel University in 2011, MXenes — a family of nanomaterials with unique properties of durability, conductivity and filtration, among many others — has become the largest known and fastest growing family of two-dimensional nanomaterials, with more than 50 unique MXene materials discovered to date. Experimentally synthesizing them and testing the physical properties of each material has been the labor of tens of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries. But a recent discovery by a multi-university collaboration of researchers, led by Drexel University researcher Yury ...

Chicago, IL — The JAMA Network announces the launch of JAMA+ Women’s Health, a new digital resource designed to elevate the visibility and accessibility of trusted, peer-reviewed content that advances health care for women across the globe. Recognizing that women’s health is more comprehensive than reproductive care, gynecologic and breast cancer, and menopause, JAMA+ Women’s Health will showcase rigorous studies that include or focus exclusively on women from across JAMA and the 12 JAMA Network journals. Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, the JAMA+ Women’s Health Editor in Chief, will curate the site.  “There’s ...

Highly efficient controlling the individual atomic migration is the basis of the modern atomic manufacturing. Although one-by-one atom migration can be realized precisely by STM technique, such a delicate operation is time consuming and restrictive conditions (e.g., high-vacuum) is required. A research team from the Institute of Modern Optics and the Center for Single Molecule Science at Nankai University, China, has now reported a breakthrough method to achieve efficient atomic migration under room temperature and atmospheric conditions. Their study, titled “Surface Plasmon Driven Atomic Migration Mediated by Molecular Monolayer,” was recently published in PhotoniX. By ...

Five researchers from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. They are  Michael Lerch, Loredana Protesescu, Tim Lichtenberg and Alexander Belyy from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Miles Wischnewski from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. The European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants amount to €1.5 million each, for a period of five years. The grants are intended for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe. Miles Wischnewski: The role of phase coding in memory processing Imagine walking into a room ...