What it's about: Raw milk (untreated milk) enjoys a certain popularity, but poses health risks. To avoid food poisoning, it should be boiled before drinking. But how well is raw milk actually known among the population? How do people perceive its health risk? Two-thirds of those surveyed had already heard of raw milk. Only ten percent expressed concern, making raw milk the topic of least concern of the risks surveyed. This is according to the BfR Consumer Monitor, a regularly conducted representative survey by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). “The health risks of raw milk ...

“This study was designed to investigate the effect of long-term social housing on cognitive decline and neuron ensemble activity dynamics in old age.” BUFFALO, NY — October 9, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 9 of Aging-US on August 22, 2025, titled, “The impact of long-term social housing on biconditional association task performance and neuron ensembles in the anterior cingulate cortex and the hippocampal CA3 region of aged rats.” The research team led by Anne M. Dankert from Providence College and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ...

A world-first discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according to astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU).    The discovery is part of an ambitious 10-year program to scan the entire southern sky every few nights.   The study's lead author, ANU researcher Dr Giacomo Cordoni, said the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will build an extraordinary “movie of the universe".   “This survey—run from ...

Poor blood sugar control in adolescence increases the risk of painful future complications for people with type 1 diabetes, research co-led by University of Michigan suggests. The study, which followed participants for over 30 years, highlights how children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at a young age have trouble controlling their blood sugar as teens. Investigators found that children who had poor glycemic control — meaning, higher-than-average blood sugar levels — during adolescence were ...

WASHINGTON—A popular class of therapies for treating diabetes and obesity may also have the potential to treat alcohol and drug addiction, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The therapies, known as Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1RAs), present an encouraging approach to treating alcohol and other substance use disorders. “Early research in both animals and humans suggests that these treatments may help reduce alcohol and other substance use,” ...

Watching short inspirational videos may be just as effective at reducing stress as meditation, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. Stress has arguably reached epidemic levels in the U.S. According to the APA’s Stress in America survey, Americans say they’re feeling more anxious than in previous years, with a majority of people 18-44 saying they feel moderate to extreme stress daily.   “Though there are many effective ways to deal with stress, people often feel too busy or overwhelmed to enact these strategies,” ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [October 9, 2025] — New research published online in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that people with cancer who quit smoking had a much lower risk of dying within two years compared to those who kept smoking. The researchers followed more than 13,000 individuals with cancer, tracking whether they quit smoking in the first six months after being seen in clinic. The survival benefit was seen across all cancer types and stages, including stages III and IV, where treatment may be less curative. Despite these benefits, only about 1 in 5 smokers quit within six months of their visit. The Cancer ...

Washington, October 9, 2025—A new large-scale analysis of existing research finds that school-provided social and emotional learning (SEL) programs improve students’ academic achievement in addition to their social and emotional development. The study appears today in Review of Educational Research, a journal of the American Educational Research Association. The study was authored by Cheyeon Ha of the University of Southern California, and Michael F. McCarthy, Michael J. Strambler, and Christina Cipriano of the Education Collaboratory at Yale. In a systematic analysis of 40 studies involving more than 33,700 students in grades 1 through 12, researchers led ...

Around 25% of people with cancer in the U.S. are active smokers when they are diagnosed, and studies have found that many of them continue to smoke during treatment. This may be due in part to a common misconception — even among some doctors — that quitting won’t help much if a person already has cancer, particularly if it’s at an advanced stage. Now, a study led by Li-Shiun Chen, MD, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, shows that kicking the habit after ...

Rockville, MD. (October 9, 2025) – In its mission to accelerate transformative cancer innovations and drive cures forward, the AIM-HI Accelerator Fund is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 AIM-HI Venture Competition: ResNovas Therapeutics, co-founded by Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., Michelle Arkin, Ph.D., CTO Ian Churcher, Ph.D., and CEO Gabriele Sulli, Ph.D.; and Chiara Biosciences, co-founded by National Academy of Inventors Fellow Francis Barany, Ph.D. and CEO Kirsten Flowers, MBA. The 2025 AIM-HI Venture Competition Committee reviewed more than 80 applications from early-stage oncology ...

Rockville, Md. - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 Annual Meeting will take place October 14-18, 2025 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. Credentialed members of the press and media are eligible to request complimentary press access to attend the in-person event. The ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting highlights cutting edge research in genetics and genomics from scientists and clinicians from around the world. Abstracts ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much earlier diagnosis and treatment, according to a new study. A baby’s genome, which stays with them for life, could also be re-examined if a health issue arises during their lifetime. The study, led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS), found genomic screening, a test that reveals a person’s entire genetic ...

Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce vast amounts of data. For the first time, researchers including those from the University of Tokyo built a software tool which leverages artificial intelligence to not only offer a more consistent analysis of these cells at speed but also categorizes them and aims to spot novel patterns people have not yet seen. Our immune system is important — it’s impossible to imagine complex life existing without it. This ...

Lots of single-use water bottles made from poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) end up in landfills, but there’s a growing interest in upcycling them instead. Researchers in ACS’ Energy & Fuels report on new heat-based fabrication methods to transform PET into supercapacitor electrodes and separator films for upcycled energy storage devices. In demonstrations, an all-plastic supercapacitor made from discarded water bottles outperformed a similar design that used a traditional glass fiber separator. “PET ...

Food waste is more than just the starting material for compost. From dried-up beet pulp to millipede-digested coconut fibers, scientists are finding treasure in our trash. Four recent papers published in ACS journals detail how food waste contains sustainable solutions for farming and new sources of bioactive compounds for pharmaceuticals. Reporters can request free access to these papers by emailing newsroom@acs.org. Sugar by-product may “beet” wheat disease. Researchers report in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that sugar beet pulp could help reduce agriculture’s reliance on synthetic pesticides. The pulp, about 80% of the beet’s ...

It is widely recognized that the Bank of Japan’s Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) purchases had a substantial impact on stock prices. Market participants and media reports have often highlighted that the policy distorted market valuations. At the same time, they pointed out that ETF management appeared to accelerate stock lending activity as the number of ETFs held by the Bank of Japan increased over time. This pattern suggests that the stock market, particularly the lending market, has mechanisms that enhance market efficiency and counteract the effects of the Bank of Japan’s policy. Recently, a team of researchers from Japan, led by Dr. Junnosuke ...

Patents are valuable for the generation of novel ideas through technology opportunity discovery. In recent years, scientists have made several attempts to identify technology opportunities by determining vacancies in patent maps—visual representations of patent distribution in particular technological fields created using dimensionality reduction techniques. However, there is a major bottleneck in this approach: it is challenging to precisely define and interpret the technological content of these patent vacancies. In a breakthrough study, researchers from the Republic of Korea and the United States, led by Professor Hakyeon Lee of the Department ...

SEATTLE, WASH. — October 9, 2025 — In an exciting scientific first, researchers at the Allen Institute successfully designed a new gene therapy that reversed symptoms related to SYNGAP1-related disorders (SRD) in mice. These are a class of brain disorders that can lead to severe and debilitating symptoms including intellectual disability, epilepsy, motor problems, and risk-taking behaviors in humans. In most cases, SRDs are caused when someone has only one working copy of the SYNGAP1 gene instead of the normal ...

New research has discovered that briefly altering how we perceive our own body can help unlock autobiographical memories – potentially even those from the early stages of childhood. Published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study is the first to find that adults can better access their early memories after embodying a childlike version of their own face. Led by neuroscientists at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, the study of 50 adult participants involved an “enfacement illusion”, which allows people to experience a face they see on a computer screen as their own, as though looking in a mirror. The participants ...

A study led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London has found that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may help reverse changes in the immune system caused by menopause, potentially booting immune health. The research reveals new evidence that menopause significantly alters women’s immune system, increasing their vulnerability to infections.  The study, published in Aging Cell is the first detailed analysis of how ageing and sex differences influence monocytes, a key group of immune cells that act as the body’s first responders to infection. Analysing blood samples from younger adults less than 40 years of age and older ...

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age than scientists had thought, according to a Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience. The findings overturn decades of conventional wisdom about how Earth emerged from its last great freeze and could reshape how scientists view the risks of climate change in today’s warming world. Between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, retreating North American ice sheets alone caused more than 30 feet (about 10 meters) of global sea-level rise. For years, scientists ...

Embargoed until publication in Nature Chemical Biology on Oct. 9, 2025 at 10:00am (London time) / 05:00am (US Eastern Time). Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of the body where they’re needed — and nowhere they’re not — can reduce the medicine dosage and avoid potentially harmful “off target” effects elsewhere in the body. A targeted immunotherapy, for example, might seek out cancerous tissues and activate immune cells to fight the disease only in those tissues.  The tricky part ...

  The fossil fuel industry is falling far short of its pledge to lead the energy transition, according to new research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). The study shows that the world’s largest oil and gas companies are responsible for only 1.42% of renewable energy projects worldwide.  The research, recently published in Nature Sustainability, challenges the dominant narrative promoted by the fossil fuel industry that positions itself as a key player in tackling climate ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Planting wheat earlier in the spring to avoid crop damage from ever-hotter summers may not keep harvests on pace with current levels. That’s a key finding from new research at Washington State University challenging assumptions that earlier planting could offset the effects of a warming climate. Researchers used computer modeling to show that moving crop plantings earlier in the season brings about other plant growth issues that could hinder productivity. The findings were published in Communications, Earth, and Environment. “Over the years, a lot of studies addressing climate change in agriculture have talked in positive terms about ...

Researchers at Umeå University have identified a key molecular player that helps bacteria survive the hostile environment inside the body. Their study reveals how the protein RfaH acts as a protective shield for bacterial genes — and points to new strategies for fighting persistent infections. “The human body is a very stressful place for bacteria,” says Kemal Avican, research group leader at Department of Molecular Biology and Icelab at Umeå University and leader of the study. “During infection, the immune system attacks, nutrients are scarce, and microbes are exposed to bile salts, acids and heat. We looked at how RfaH helps bacteria deal with ...