A research team led by Si Cheng from Soochow University and collaborators have provided a comprehensive review of electrospun nanofiber-based composite materials for wearable electronic skin (E-skin) applications. Published in Nano-Micro Letters, the study highlights how electrospinning technology and composite design strategies are shaping next-generation flexible sensors for monitoring human physical, physiological, and body fluid signals. Why Electrospun Nanofibers Matter Electrospun nanofibers combine high surface area, tunable porosity, mechanical flexibility, and breathability, making ...

Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU HK) have developed novel artificial bone scaffolds with a high deformation recovery capability of 6% –7%, compared to 2% – 4% for natural bone and less than 1% for conventional metallic scaffolds. Additionally, these scaffolds allow for flexible adjustments of properties like strength, modulus, and permeability to meet specific implantation site requirements. Reported in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, this work provides valuable insights into developing high-performance artificial bone scaffolds and ...

A research team led by Professor Chuncai Kong from Xi’an Jiaotong University has designed boron-bridge regulated asymmetric dual-atomic catalysts (NiFe-BNC) that deliver exceptional bifunctional activity for volatile organic compound (VOC) degradation and electrochemical CO2 reduction. Published in Nano-Micro Letters, this work demonstrates a sustainable platform for converting waste gases into valuable resources through synergistic catalysis. Why This Catalyst Matters Unprecedented Performance: NiFe-BNC achieves 99% continuous styrene degradation in 2 hours with stable mineralization above 60%. Simultaneously, it enables CO2 electroreduction with a Faradaic ...

Background and Motivation As the world accelerates its transition towards renewable and sustainable energy, the pivotal role of finance in driving this transformation is clearer than ever. From wind and solar to hydropower and biomass, rapid advances in new energy technologies are only possible with robust financial support. Understanding how finance interacts with new energy development—and how financial innovation can promote sustainability—has become a top priority for researchers, investors, and policymakers worldwide.   Methodology and Scope This special issue brings together eight cutting-edge studies ...

A new study led by Professor Jonghun Kam's team at POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology) has uncovered a shocking forecast for Pakistan's future. Using a cutting-edge AI model, the research predicts that the country will face unprecedented "super floods" and "extreme droughts" on a periodic basis. This dire prediction is a direct result of accelerating global warming, which is causing more frequent and severe extreme weather events around the world, particularly in vulnerable high-altitude ...

**EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL TUESDAY, SEPT. 2, AT 7:30 P.M.** Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers present in urine, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. This approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies, they say. By analyzing urine samples from prostate cancer patients before and after prostate-removal surgery, as well as from healthy individuals, ...

A father’s exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of COPD—a risk that is heightened further if they are childhood passive smokers themselves—finds research published online in the respiratory journal Thorax. The findings highlight the intergenerational harms of smoking, say the researchers, who urge fathers to intercept this harmful legacy by avoiding smoking around their children. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ...

People with learning disabilities progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are at greater risk of dying from their condition than people without these disabilities, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Control. This is despite having better overall blood glucose control and similar risks of vascular complications, the findings indicate. Around 1.5 million people (950,000 adults) in the UK have a learning disability, which includes conditions such as Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, note the researchers.  Type 2 ...

New research to be presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria (15-19 September) and published in the journal Diagnostics shows that people with hepatitis B immunity induced by vaccination have a lower risk of developing diabetes of any kind. The study is by Dr Nhu-Quynh Phan, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues, under the supervision of Professor Chiehfeng Chen. The liver plays an important role in glucose metabolism, specfically maintaining the balance of glucose levels (glucose homeostasis) and it is thought HBV infection may affect liver functions and ...

Medicaid plays a key role for giving people with opioid-use disorder access to treatment, according to a Rutgers Health study. Progress in life-saving treatment for opioid-use disorder with the medication has stalled in the past several years, according to a Rutgers Health study. However, researchers added that while some states were able to achieve substantial improvement, others lost ground.  Specifically, states that have expanded access to Medicaid insurance coverage since 2018 saw increases in prescriptions for opioid-use disorder treatment, according to the study, while states that haven’t ...

Duluth, MN - In the world’s cold and snowy regions, shorter and warmer winters are one of the most conspicuous consequences of climate change. For freshwater lakes, this means later freezing, earlier thawing, and thinner ice. A new study, published in Ecology Letters, shows that the ecological impacts of these winter changes may be most dramatic in high-latitude lakes. “The ecology of ice-covered lakes is a bit of a black box for lake scientists,” said Ted Ozersky, a University of Minnesota Duluth biologist who led the research. “For a long time, we assumed that nothing interesting happened under the ice, so few studies looked at what goes on in ...

It's hard to believe that there is anything positive that could come out of wildfires. They have devastated homes, taken lives, erased memories, leveled cities and destroyed our forests and wildlands. But a University of Delaware professor has found that there is something of value to be learned from what’s left behind in the remnants. The charred debris left in the wake of wildfires, such as those currently burning in Colorado, Canada and Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park, is known as wildfire char. UD’s Pei Chiu, professor of civil, construction ...

Immersing oneself in the virtual and augmented reality world is not only awesome for entertainment, it helps industries like manufacturing and medicine operate more efficiently. Nevertheless, as fast as the technology brings you into the world, the weight and stiffness of its hardware can just as easily remind you that you aren’t really golfing on the PGA tour or preparing for a surgery. Inspired by Softbotics, researchers in the Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University are developing wearable electronics to augment our senses with ...

Heart rate is one of the most basic and important indicators of health, providing a snapshot into a person’s physical activity, stress and anxiety, hydration level, and more.  Traditionally, measuring heart rate requires some sort of wearable device, whether that be a smart watch or hospital-grade machinery. But new research from engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how the signal from a household WiFi device can be used for this crucial health monitoring with state-of-the-art accuracy—without the need ...

Faced with a worsening drug crisis, policymakers in recent years have made it much easier for doctors to prescribe the highly effective opioid addiction treatment buprenorphine. However, many patients may still struggle to find pharmacies carrying the treatment, finds new research led by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Buprenorphine was available at just 39% of U.S. retail pharmacies in 2023, a modest increase from 33% in 2017, according to the study published Sept. 2 in Health Affairs. But disparities in who can access the treatment have persisted. Pharmacies in predominantly Black neighborhoods (18%) and ...

A comprehensive study shows that California's CA Bridge program has successfully implemented opioid use disorder treatment services across more than 80% of the state's emergency departments, reaching over 165,000 patients and providing nearly 45,000 instances of buprenorphine treatment from July 2022 through December 2023 alone. The initiative proves that emergency departments can serve as a critical entry point for addiction care when provided with proper funding, training, and patient navigation support. Why it matters The opioid crisis ...

Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have discovered a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against head and neck cancers. The new drug, still in preclinical studies, attacks cancer cells from within by damaging their mitochondria, the cells’ energy factories. The study, published in Cancer Research, was led by Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D., associate director of Basic Science at Hollings and director of Hollings' Lipidomics Shared Resource. The multidisciplinary research team aimed to suppress tumor growth ...

Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2nd in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Drs. Emily Van Syoc, Emily Davenport, and Seth Bordenstein at The Pennsylvania State University, United States, uncovers evidence of the first ternary relationships between human genetic variation, variation in gut mycobiome, and risk of developing chronic disease. Some gut fungi are implicated in intestinal diseases. However, ...

Medicines containing a type of PFAS or ‘forever chemical’ called fluorine are not leading to higher numbers of adverse drug reactions according to new data analysis.   In a new paper published in PLOS ONE today, researchers from the University of Birmingham studied data from the MHRA’s Yellow Card system on 13 drugs containing carbon-fluorine bonds as well as six drugs which were structurally similar but not containing this forever chemical.   Using five years of data from 2019-2024, the research team analysed the number of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) per 1 million medicines ...

Researchers from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and their university partners are helping U.S. tomato growers fight a devastating crop disease. Researchers found that a tomato line developed 30 years ago is showing good resistance to the emerging tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), a virus that has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage to the tomato industry in the United States and worldwide.  ToBRFV infects tomato, pepper, and similar crops by distorting leaves and discoloring fruit, resulting in yield loss. The virus is seed-borne and overcomes the resistance genes in current commercial cultivars. It can easily spread when healthy ...

Small business owners are more likely to identify with and vote for right-wing parties, a new study in the British Journal of Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press reveals. The research suggests it is the experience of being a small business owner that leads people to adopt conservative views on government regulation.   The study, which analysed the political leanings of small business owners in the United States, also found that current business owners, but not past owners ...

Two Studies Published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology Reveal New Variant of Mesothelioma (September 2, 2025—Denver, Colo) Researchers working independently at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute have discovered, and validated, a new variant of mesothelioma that may lead to more successful treatments. The studies have been published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive type of cancer that develops in the mesothelium, the thin layer of ...

Marine Resource Economics (MRE) is pleased to present the 2024 Outstanding Article Award to Y. Allen Chen and Alan C. Haynie for their article “Size-Targeting in the Bering Sea Pollock Catcher/Processor Fishery with Heterogeneous Incentives.” Researchers Chen and Haynie (2024) conduct a novel analysis of the heterogeneous incentives to target different sizes of pollock in the U.S. Bering Sea fishery. By coupling empirical models of fishing revenue with a clustering approach, they group vessels by how strongly their ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Along the coast, waves break with a familiar sound. The gentle swash of the surf on the seashore can lull us to sleep, while the pounding of storm surge warns us to seek shelter. Yet these are but a sample of the sounds that come from the coast. Most of the acoustic energy from the surf is far too low in frequency for us to hear, traveling through the air as infrasound and through the ground as seismic waves.  Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have recently characterized these low-frequency signals to track breaking ocean waves. In a study published in Geophysical Journal International, they were able to identify the acoustic and seismic signatures ...

NORMAN, OKLA. – U.S. cities are facing a growing threat that goes beyond hot weather or hazy air. New research from the University of Oklahoma reveals that “compound events” — periods when heat wave conditions coincide with high air pollution levels — are becoming more frequent and intense in urban areas across the United States. According to the National Weather Service, extreme heat is the deadliest weather phenomenon facing the country, causing more deaths each year ...