Two projects at the University of California, Davis, that use artificial intelligence to design and engineer proteins for industrial and health applications have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).  The grants are part of a $32 million investment in AI and protein engineering announced Aug. 7 by the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP). Both teams are affiliated with the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health in collaboration with industry partners. Total funding to UC Davis will be about $1 million over three years.  The two grants are among five announced by NSF that aim to ...

The University of Texas at Arlington will bring together experts and innovators at the fifth annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference, exploring how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of health care. The conference will take place Friday, Sept. 26, in the Bluebonnet Ballroom of the University Center. This year’s theme, ALL IN: Practice of Trustworthy and Responsible AI Operations in Health Care, reflects its focus on ethical, effective and patient-centered AI applications. “Our conference has become a must-attend event for anyone in health informatics,” said Marion Ball, Presidential ...

Seismology is undergoing significant change with the rise of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), a fast-growing technology that leverages existing fiber-optic cables—including those used for the Internet—into ultra-dense seismic networks with meter-scale sensor spacing. DAS provides a scalable and cost-effective way to monitor earthquakes from local to global scales, but it also poses a pressing challenge: the massive volume of data produced outpaces human capacity to analyze. For example, ...

About The Study: The findings of this cohort study suggest that poverty and social disadvantage, characterized by low educational level and household income among both women and men, were associated with lower fecundability (defined as the per-month probability of conceiving) and increased risks of subfertility (defined as a time to pregnancy or the duration of actively pursuing pregnancy of more than 12 months or use of assisted reproductive technology) but not with miscarriage risk. Further studies are needed to identify the underlying and explanatory mechanisms associated with fertility outcomes and the potential for novel public health strategies for couples desiring pregnancy. Corresponding ...

About The Study: The findings of this study highlight the critical role of improving measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination coverage to prevent large-scale measles outbreaks, particularly in regions with declining immunization rates. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Kaiming Bi, Ph.D., email kaiming.bi@uth.tmc.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3992) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and ...

Ant societies are built on scent. Pheromones guide the insects to food, warn them of predators, and regulate the rhythms of their colonies. This chemical communication system is governed by a simple rule: one receptor, one neuron. Ant genomes contain hundreds of odorant receptor genes, each encoding a receptor tuned to specific chemicals. Were a neuron to express multiple receptors at once, the messages arriving in the brain would be scrambled, and the ant would lose its finely tuned sense of smell. Now, scientists working with the clonal raider ant have discovered the unique process ...

As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air—and our health.  In a new study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, the team shows that large wildfires, like those we’ve seen in Colorado, Oregon, and California in recent years, produce large amounts of ozone into the atmosphere. This not only impacts our lungs and other health concerns but also contributes to the warming of the planet.  CU Denver mathematics professor emeritus Jan Mandel was part of the research team, which included faculty from the University ...

Quantum physics often reveals phenomena that defy common sense. A new theory of quantum scarring deepens our understanding of the connection between the quantum world and classical mechanics, sheds light on earlier findings and marks a step forward towards future technological applications. Quantum mechanics describes the behaviour of matter and energy at microscopic scales, where randomness seems to prevail. Yet even within seemingly chaotic systems, hidden order may lie beneath the surface. Quantum scars are one such example: they are regions where electrons prefer to travel along ...

(Toronto, September 18, 2025) JMIR Publications, the leading open-access digital health research publisher, and ZB Med, Germany’s national infrastructure and research hub for data and information in the life sciences, are pleased to announce that Witten/Herdecke University joined their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement. The addition of Witten/Herdecke to the consortia agreement was facilitated by Ulrike Weichern of KGL Accucoms. “It was a pleasure to collaborate with the Witten/Herdecke University, JMIR and ZB Med on their common goal of further advancing the idea of open access and supporting researchers ...

(Toronto, September 19, 2025) JMIR Publications, a leading open-access digital health research publisher, and Jisc, the United Kingdom's not-for-profit organization providing digital services for research and education, are pleased to announce a significant expansion of their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Partnership. Effective August 1, 2025, 6 new research institutions – the University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University, University of Leeds, University of Southampton, and University of Warwick – have joined this collaborative ...

A University of Helsinki study found that partially replacing red and processed meat with pea- and faba bean–based foods resulted in reduced total and ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels in men, along with weight loss. On average, men consume significantly more red and processed meat than is recommended, and more than women do. The high nutritional value of legumes makes them well suited to replacing meat. However, they do not naturally contain vitamin B12, which is found in animal-derived foods. The BeanMan study investigated how partially replacing red and ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with rising incidence attributed to environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors. Beyond genetic and epigenetic drivers, increasing evidence implicates the gut microbiome as a crucial modulator of CRC initiation, progression, and therapeutic response. Dysbiosis—an imbalance in microbial composition—can disrupt intestinal homeostasis, promote chronic inflammation, and facilitate carcinogenesis. This review explores the mechanistic role ...

AAP media contacts:  Lisa Robinson, 630-626-6084, lrobinson@aap.org                Alex Hulvalchick, 630-626-6282, ahulvalchick@aap.org          American Academy of Pediatrics hosts 2025 National Conference & Exhibition in Denver Thousands of pediatric care providers and specialists will learn the latest in pediatric education, share research and attend seminars hosted by experts on infectious diseases, ...

WASHINGTON–A new initiative by The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) proposes a new framework and call to action for managing cardiogenic shock (CS), establishing lactate clearance potentially as the standardized, time-based marker of patient trajectory to improve outcomes in one of the deadliest cardiovascular emergencies.   “SCAI Door to Lactate Clearance (SCAI DLC) Cardiogenic Shock Initiative: Definition, Hypothesis and Call to Action” was unveiled September 19 at the SCAI SHOCK Conference in Tampa, FL, with simultaneous publication in JSCAI.  “Cardiogenic shock remains one of the deadliest ...

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a fascinating technique that creates three-dimensional (3D) representations of a scene from a set of two-dimensional (2D) images, captured from different angles. It works by training a deep neural network to predict the color and density at any point in 3D space. To do this, it casts imaginary light rays from the camera through each pixel in all input images, sampling points along those rays with their 3D coordinates and viewing direction. Using this information, NeRF reconstructs the scene in 3D and can render it from entirely new perspectives, a process known as novel view synthesis (NVS). Beyond still images, a video can also be used, with each frame of ...

New research reveals “unprecedented” conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon - as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low enforcement of regulations, growing external encroachment and competition for resources. The study describes a powerful new mechanism for increasing the extent of effective area-based protection by piggybacking on community management of natural resources. Tropical protected areas are typically understaffed, underfunded and underequipped and it remains unclear how existing ones ...

Bethesda, MD (Sept. 17, 2025) — The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released a new clinical guideline with 12 conditional recommendations for diagnosing and managing gastroparesis, a serious and often debilitating disease. Rather than pointing to a single treatment path, the evidence highlights a range of options — underscoring the complexity of gastroparesis and the importance of thoughtful conversations between doctors and patients to tailor an individualized care plan.  Gastroparesis affects thousands of people, often causing nausea, postprandial fullness, vomiting, discomfort, and major disruptions to quality of life. The ...

Between 2nd  and 10th September around 40 stakeholders involved in protecting and restoring peatlands and wetlands in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland joined a series of online workshops to develop impact plans that aim to influence policies and markets in each country, to scale up the restoration of degraded peatlands.  The meetings were organised by the EU-funded research project WET HORIZONS, the UNEP’s Global Peatlands Initiative, Wetlands International, and Eurosite - the European Land Conservation Network, who are coordinating the European Peatlands Initiative.  “The ...

Performance in endurance sports, such as long-distance running, cycling, and cross-country skiing, requires sustained activity over prolonged periods of time, and is influenced by multiple factors, such as temperature and mental state. In chilly temperatures around 10°C (50°F), endurance performance has been shown to improve in certain circumstances. In contrast, extreme cold can slow down muscle and nerve function and cause a decline in performance. Such reactions suggest the involvement of the Sympathetic Adrenal-Medullary (SAM) system, a stress response pathway. Further performance decline can be attributed to mental fatigue caused by psychological pressure, which leads to decreased ...

Australian farmers face inconsistent guidelines when it comes to crop regulations across genetically modified (GM), organic and other crop frameworks, according to new research from the University of Adelaide. “Even though different sectors in Australian cropping regulate coexistence of both genetically modified and organic crops, they do so in different ways,” says lead researcher Michail Ivanov, whose review was published in Griffith Law Review. “For example, different standards or codes of conduct recommend different physical barriers or buffer zones between paddocks to ...

Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo have successfully grown large tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, both rich in nutrients, in tightly controlled environments where the light source was energy-efficient LEDs. Such methods were often limited by the types or sizes of plants that could thrive in such conditions. This feasibility study demonstrates the researchers’ method is suitable for urban environments, potentially even in space, and can offer food security in the face of climate change or extreme weather conditions. Pizza, pasta, soup, salad, the tomato ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues researched the secret of a perfect cacio e pepe pasta sauce. They received the popular award for their findings on Thursday evening in Boston, USA. Cacio e pepe is one of Italy's most popular pasta dishes, but even (Italian) scientists often fail to prepare the perfect creamy sauce. Fabrizio Olmeda, a physicist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), also struggled ...

Bright squeezed light, exhibiting sub-shot-noise quantum noise combined with significant optical power, is essential for enhanced sensitivity in quantum metrology and precision measurement. In the deep application within the field, the squeezing must be extended to kHz–MHz bandwidth with milliwatt optical power. However, it remains a longstanding challenge to achieve this goal with conventional technologies, since they suffer from low-frequency technical noise and vacuum noise coupling, which caps ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid that spawned near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than a billion years after it first formed. The finding, based on tiny rock fragments returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), overturns long-held assumptions that water activity on asteroids only occurred in the earliest moments of solar system history. This could impact models which include the formation of the Earth. We have a relatively good ...

Scientists have developed and tested a deep-learning model that could support clinicians by providing accurate results and clear, explainable insights – including a model-estimated probability score for autism. The model, outlined in a study published in eClinicalMedicine (a journal from The Lancet), was used to analyse resting-state fMRI data – a non-invasive method that indirectly reflects brain activity via blood-oxygenation changes. In doing so, the model achieved up to 98% cross-validated accuracy for Autism Spectrum ...