Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has received a $15 million grant from the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST). This support will expand observational capabilities into parts of the ocean where data has historically been sparse or nonexistent. The resulting insights will help scientists understand how the ocean is changing and what those changes mean for the planet. “Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is pushing boundaries for exploration and discovery across the global ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – For the millions of people living with lupus – a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage the kidneys, brain and other vital organs – treatment options remain limited and often come with serious side effects. A $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow a University of Oklahoma researcher to continue investigating a protein that may help explain why the disease develops and how it might be treated more precisely. Carol Webb, Ph.D., a professor at the OU College of Medicine, has spent her career studying the protein ARID3a. Her research has shown that people with lupus ...

A University of Leeds engineering study details a practical farm-scale biochar system that could reduce manure management emissions by 75% and sequester 350 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year - but at a carbon abatement cost of 226 pounds per tonne, the economics are currently unfavorable without policy support.

Traditional Chinese medicine production generates millions of tons of herbal residue annually, most of which is incinerated or landfilled. A new review argues these plant materials have properties that make exceptional water-purifying biochar - if the field can solve some persistent engineering and environmental challenges.

A novel biochar engineered with sulfur and iron can simultaneously lock down arsenic and cadmium in contaminated agricultural soils - two pollutants with opposing chemical behavior that have resisted joint remediation until now. Field trials show bioavailable cadmium cut by 41% and arsenic by 64%.

A Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health study found that AI-powered medical chart review identified eligible participants for a rare heart disease trial with 96.2% accuracy across 7,700 screening questions - and flagged 29 candidates that routine clinical recruitment had entirely overlooked.

Paleontologist Stephen Chester and colleagues have found Purgatorius fossils in Colorado's Denver Basin - the farthest south this early primate relative has ever been recorded. The discovery helps trace how primate ancestors spread across North America in the chaotic aftermath of the mass extinction event that ended the dinosaurs.

University of Florida researchers found that the bacterium driving most serious gum disease uses an internal CRISPR array to dial down its own aggression - a survival trick that also points toward a new way to treat periodontal disease without disrupting the entire oral microbiome.

A modeling study published in Lancet Public Health finds that pairing a $2.00 minimum unit price for alcohol with mandatory cancer warning labels could prevent 674 cancer cases and 216 deaths annually in Canada, with the greatest benefits falling to lower-income populations.

During the summer 2023 Canadian wildfires, ozone levels in New Jersey hit nearly four times their normal median. A new study finds that on those high-pollution days, stroke cases were more frequent, more severe, and more likely to involve bleeding in the brain.

A team from the University of Gottingen has developed a microfluidics system that automates the fiddly fluid-handling steps in advanced cell imaging, making it possible to map dozens of proteins inside a single cell with far less variability and sample damage.

A Pennington Biomedical researcher argues in the Journal of the American Heart Association that avocados and mangos show specific, measurable benefits for artery health - part of a broader push to treat food as a clinical tool.

Gladstone Institutes researchers developed HIV-seq, a tool that recovered over 1,000 HIV-infected cells from untreated patients and identified key differences between active and therapy-suppressed reservoir cells, including survival proteins that may enable decades-long persistence.

A Hackensack Meridian Health study measured breathing-brain wave synchrony in mice across all sleep stages and found that deep non-REM sleep uniquely decouples the substantia nigra and primary motor cortex from respiratory rhythms.

Cornell researchers used electron ptychography to image atomic-scale defects - nicknamed 'mouse bites' - in transistor channels just 15 to 18 atoms wide. The capability, developed with TSMC, could transform how chip makers debug next-generation semiconductors.

Ochsner Children's CEO Dana Bledsoe has joined the Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana board of directors, deepening a formal partnership launched in April 2025 that has already granted wishes to 12 children with critical illnesses.

A Mass General Brigham study mapped brain lesion locations in every documented case of acquired aphantasia and found that all cases, without exception, had damage connected to a single brain region: the fusiform imagery node.

A PLOS Biology analysis argues that AI models trained and tested on similar image datasets perform poorly when deployed in genuinely new ecological contexts - and often fail without signaling that failure to the user.

A study spanning 2006 to 2019 found that a five-year drought in southeastern Connecticut caused ammonia-oxidizing archaea in a salt marsh to swing by 30,000-fold in abundance, with stability returning only after rainfall resumed.

A University of Utah team discovered that rhodium-modified fuel cell anodes can clean themselves under steam exposure, maintaining three times higher power output than conventional anodes when running on sulfur-contaminated fuels.

A McMaster University study found that oral and gut bacteria, particularly Rothia species, break down peanut allergens and reduce immune activation. People with higher abundances of these microbes tolerated larger peanut doses before reacting.

Canadian researchers tracked over 2,000 children from age three to five and found that every 10% increase in calories from ultra-processed foods correlated with higher rates of anxiety, fearfulness, aggression, and hyperactivity.

A Michigan State University team found that Bornean fanged frogs, classified as a single species since 1838, actually consist of six or seven distinct genetic clusters. The finding illustrates a conservation dilemma: too few species classifications leave some populations unprotected, while too many can misallocate limited resources.

Dr. Ekta Khurana at Weill Cornell Medicine received a $1 million, two-year Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award to develop AI tools that identify treatment-resistant prostate cancer subtypes from pathology slides and gene activity patterns - potentially catching them before standard therapies fail.

A team at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology built a 3D facial database of roughly 200,000 high-fidelity scans and trained a curvature-based neural network on it. The resulting model identifies facial landmarks more robustly than previous methods that depended on 2D texture or synthetic faces.