Getting enough weekly exercise may help smokers over 40 reduce depression and sleep issues to levels seen in non-smokers, according to a study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. The study showed that smokers had higher rates of moderate to severe depressive symptoms and sleep disorders than non-smokers. Notably, smokers aged 40 to 59 who did not meet physical activity guidelines were especially likely to report moderate to severe depressive symptoms and sleep disorders. Smokers aged ...

More than half of the world’s population could be living with overweightedness or obesity by 2035, with a rapidly growing share in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is also estimated that the global economic impact could top US$4 trillion by that time. These trends are closely tied to the rise of obesogenic food environments; settings where unhealthy food options are cheap, ubiquitous, and heavily promoted. Walk into any Hanoi convenience store and you will see “Mua 1 tặng 1” (buy-one-get-one) banners on sugary drinks. These promotions are not background noise; they shape habits. In Ho ...

A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act quickly and thoroughly, and success will require new technologies for sectors difficult to decarbonize, a new Stanford University study finds. The state will need to decarbonize not only cars and electricity but also trucks, trains, planes, agriculture, and factories, while slashing pollution from its oil refineries. The research team created a new model that projects emissions, society-wide economic costs, and consumption of energy resources under many scenarios for California to reach net-zero ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the invention of iron. The work reanalysed metallurgical remains from a site in southern Georgia: a 3000-year-old smelting workshop called Kvemo Bolnisi. During the original analysis in the 1950s, piles of hematite (an iron oxide mineral) and slag (a waste product of the metal production) were found in the workshop. ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate “designer” biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University’s Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living robots may one day be able to traverse through the body’s complex environments to deliver desired therapeutic or mechanical interventions, once greater control is achieved over their motility patterns. In new research published in Science Advances, the group provides a novel tissue engineering platform capable of achieving customizable motility in AggreBots by actively controlling their structural parameters. Biobots ...

September 26, 2025 — Initial and follow-up 3D digital scans provide new insights into the effects of hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers in restoring facial volume and fullness, reports a study in the October issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. "Our study combines objective measurements of volumetric effects with patient satisfaction and other subjective outcomes to provide a deeper understanding of the immediate and ...

Cambridge, MA – Annotating regions of interest in medical images, a process known as segmentation, is often one of the first steps clinical researchers take when running a new study involving biomedical images. For instance, to determine how the size of the brain’s hippocampus changes as patients age, the scientist first outlines each hippocampus in a series of brain scans. For many structures and image types, this is often a manual process that can be extremely time-consuming, especially if the regions being studied are challenging to delineate. To streamline the process, MIT researchers developed an artificial intelligence-based ...

New York, 26 September 2025 – Digital leaders from government, the private sector and civil society, including youth representatives, shared insights on how technology can be a force for good, for people and prosperity at Digital@UNGA 2025, a week-long series of activities during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Digital@UNGA, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), brought together thousands of participants through its Anchor Event at United Nations Headquarters and over 40 affiliate sessions hosted in New York, across the UN system and online ...

The INSEAD AI 50, an alum-led initiative, today announced its inaugural list recognizing 50 members of the INSEAD community who are shaping artificial intelligence across finance, healthcare, retail, climate, industrials, media and the public sector. Honorees hail from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, reflecting the school’s 170+ nationalities and presence in nearly 180 countries. Honorees include founders, executives, board leaders, researchers and educators who turn AI from research into responsible, scaled deployment. Anyone can view the INSEAD AI 50 at INSEADAI50.com. “INSEAD leaders focus on tangible outcomes customers ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, September 26, 2025 Contact: Jillian McKoy, jpmckoy@bu.edu  Michael Saunders, msaunder@bu.edu ##  A Mother’s Death During or After Pregnancy May Increase Risk of Infant’s Death or Hospitalization A new study found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy and postpartum. ​​Global health research has long shown the devastating consequences that maternal deaths have on families and communities in developing countries where maternal mortality rates ...

About The Study: This study found that nearly one-quarter of pediatric firearm-related homicides occurred at home. Young children were more often affected. These data point to domestic violence and child abuse as significant risk factors for in-home firearm homicide. Traditional safe storage laws may be inadequate preventive measures. Extreme risk protection orders and mandatory domestic violence–related firearm relinquishment may prevent these deaths and warrant further investigation.  Corresponding ...

Nearly one-quarter of child and adolescent victims of firearm homicide were killed in their own homes from 2020-2021, including nearly two-thirds of child victims aged 12 and under, UCLA-led research finds. The findings, to be published Sept. 26 in the peer-reviewed JAMA Surgery, also found that rates of in-home firearm homicide have more than doubled among children and adolescents since 2010. They found that these cases were often linked with intimate partner violence and child abuse. Parents were the most common assailants for these homicides. These data suggest that Extreme Risk Protection ...

Globally, the average person wastes around 132 kg of food per year, and this number is rising. Wealthy countries waste more food per person, but in an opinion paper publishing September 26 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Sustainability, agricultural economists highlight how urbanization and economic expansion are driving increases in food waste in lower- and middle-income countries. Curbing food waste will require policy and structural initiatives, they argue, such as incentivizing supermarkets and restaurants to donate food and educating consumers to promote smarter purchasing and better food storage practices.  “If left unaddressed, rising waste in middle- and ...

Medicaid reimbursement often falls short of actual treatment costs, leaving trauma centers on the front lines of the gun violence epidemic to absorb substantial losses Study authors concerned Medicaid funding cuts could further strain trauma centers Costs stayed flat through 2019, then rose 33% from 2019 to 2021, coinciding with a rise in firearm injury during the pandemic CHICAGO --- The initial hospital treatment of firearm injuries cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $7.7 billion between 2016 and 2021, with the largest share falling on urban trauma center hospitals that serve the highest proportion ...

Cancer cells are relentless in their quest to grow and divide, often rewiring their metabolism and modifying RNA to stay one step ahead. Now, researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a single protein, IGF2BP3, that links these two processes together in leukemia cells. The protein shifts how cells break down sugar, favoring a fast but inefficient energy pathway, while also altering RNA modifications that help produce the proteins leukemia cells need to survive and multiply. The discovery, published in Cell Reports, positions IGF2BP3 as a “master ...

Food insecurity is more common among children with a chronic medical condition than those without one, a new study suggests. The prevalence of food insecurity remained higher in this group even after adjusting for key family and household characteristics, including income, education and employment status, according to the Michigan Medicine-led research in JAMA Network Open. “Our study suggests that children with chronic conditions should be prioritized in efforts to reduce the harms of food insecurity,” said lead author Nina Hill, M.D., a postdoctoral research ...

About The Study: Disparities in workplace safety are a significant contributor to racial and ethnic health disparities. Addressing both occupational concentration and within-occupation disparities is essential for improving workplace safety and reducing health inequities among workers. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Michael Dworsky, PhD, email mdworsky@rand.org. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3495) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for ...

About The Study: This cross-sectional study suggests that despite increasing clearance of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) devices, standardized efficacy, safety, and risk assessment by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are lacking. Dedicated regulatory pathways and post-market surveillance of AI/ML safety events may address these challenges. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP, email ravi.bharat.parikh@emory.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3351) Editor’s ...

Stroke patients evaluated using telemedicine (telestroke) have higher odds of receiving essential treatment, yet it takes them significantly longer to be treated — potentially limiting the benefits, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds. Researchers evaluated more than 3,000 patients with ischemic stroke, the most common type, who were potentially eligible for treatment with thrombolysis. The study used data from 42 hospitals in the Paul Coverdell Michigan Stroke Registry, a program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that measures, tracks and aims to improve the quality ...

The Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), as a key driver of global weather and climate anomalies, is an important source of subseasonal predictability. However, most climate models still struggle to reproduce its fundamental characteristics, posing a critical challenge that urgently needs to be addressed in climate prediction. Previous studies have pointed out that the convective adjustment timescale (tau) is one of the key parameters affecting MJO simulation in climate models, but its sensitivity ...

A groundbreaking study published in the journal Current Pharmaceutical Analysis has uncovered the potential of essential oil compounds from the Plectranthus neochilus plant to serve as effective antidiabetic agents. The research, conducted by Hamadou Mamoudou and colleagues, utilized molecular docking and pharmacological analysis to evaluate the interaction of these compounds with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4), a crucial enzyme in type 2 diabetes management. The study identified citronellyl butyrate as the compound ...

Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (CPA) is a distinguished journal in the field of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis. Published by Far Publishing Company, CPA provides a platform for researchers to share their latest findings and advancements. The journal publishes full-length articles, short reviews, and original research papers covering all aspects of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis. It focuses on the entire process from drug discovery to clinical application, aiming to advance every aspect of pharmaceutical science. CPA has made significant progress in recent years. With an impact factor of 1.5 and a CiteScore of 1.7, the journal has ...

In limbless animals, propulsion across flat terrain depends on three synergistic elements—a highly deformable soft body, rhythmic axial contractions that travel along the body, and directional friction with a lower coefficient at the front than at the rear—which together generate sufficient thrust and grip. Inspired by this principle, numerous bio-inspired soft robots have separately advanced body-shape actuation, end anchoring, or kirigami-skin friction modulation, achieving crawling on uniformly rough surfaces, inside pipes, and through granular media; yet a unified platform that simultaneously integrates “deformation–friction coupling–steering” ...

Polymer-based conductive nanocomposites, particularly those incorporating carbon nanotubes, are highly promising for the development of flexible electronics, soft robotics and wearable devices. However, CNTs are difficult to work with as they tend to agglomerate, making it hard to obtain a uniform dispersion. Moreover, conventional methods limit control over CNT distribution and shape. To overcome these challenges, researchers are turning to additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing methods, such as vat photopolymerization (VPP), which offer excellent design freedom with high printing accuracy. In this method, a light is used to selectively cure and harden layers of an ink within a vat, ...

An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Shady Rahayel has made a major breakthrough in predicting neurodegenerative diseases. Thanks to two complementary UdeM studies, scientists are now able to determine, years in advance, which individuals with a particular sleep disorder will develop Parkinson’s disease or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The studies focus on isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD)—a condition in which people yell, thrash, or act out their dreams, sometimes violently enough to injure a bed partner. “It’s not just restless sleep—it’s a neurological warning sign,” ...