Tan To Conduct Investigation Of Ferroelectric Oxides As Heterogeneous Photocatalysts For Ethane Dehydrogenation Xiaoyan Tan, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science, is set to receive funding for the project: “Investigation of Ferroelectric Oxides as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Ethane Dehydrogenation.” Tan will receive $125,000 from American Chemical Society for this research. Funding will begin in Sept. 2025 and will end in late Aug. 2027.               ...

Kun Sun, Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), is set to receive funding for the project: “Collaborative Research: CIRC: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Software Vulnerability Detection and Remediation.”  Sun will plan an infrastructure featuring a continuous collection framework that captures scalable and multimodal data to facilitate high-impact software vulnerability research through a series of planning activities.  He and his collaborators will conduct surveys and interviews with the security, software engineering, and human-computer interaction communities to understand researchers’ ...

As autism diagnoses continue to grow and remain a topic of nationwide debate, new research reveals that autistic individuals are facing mental health challenges at a major turning point in their lives – when they go to college. According to a new study led by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, autistic college students face dramatically higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their non-autistic peers.  Psychologists at Binghamton University examined data from the National Survey ...

Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum have discovered something surprisingly familiar among the site’s exotic ancient tapirs and rhinos: the first fossil deer, representing one of the earliest records of the deer family in North America.    The newly described fossils of Eocoileus gentryorum, detailed in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, offers a fascinating glimpse into the deep roots of America’s most recognizable wildlife.     These 5-million-year-old fossils reveal the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is improved by incorporating CT lung imaging and respiratory symptoms. This fresh, multidimensional approach better identifies patients who are at risk of poor respiratory outcomes, while ruling out those who have airflow obstruction without respiratory symptoms or structural lung disease, Surya Bhatt, M.D., and colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “This new COPD diagnostic schema, which includes ...

Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, has been named the 2025 recipient of the George P. Woollard Award from the Geological Society of America (GSA). The award recognizes a career of outstanding contributions to geology through the application of geophysical principles and techniques. Gordon’s work has transformed our understanding of global plate motions and plate boundary deformation. “This is a special honor for me,” Gordon said. “Some of the past recipients have been mentors, close colleagues ...

August 12, 2025 — A new study published in JAMA Network Open reveals that the legacy of redlining—a discriminatory housing policy from the 1930s—is associated with inequities in rapid access to emergency medical services (EMS) today. These disparities in prehospital care can have serious consequences for patients experiencing life-threatening conditions such as major trauma, stroke, cardiac arrest, or septic shock. The nationwide study found that communities once labeled as “hazardous” (Grade D) on historical Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps are significantly ...

PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 22 researchers joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. These early-career scientists will receive four years of funding to uncover fundamental insights about human health and disease. “For 40 years, Pew has supported young, talented researchers as they take creative approaches to solving big scientific questions,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Pew’s senior vice president for Philadelphia and scientific advancement. ...

PHILADEPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2025 class of the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research. The five early-career scientists will each receive four-year grants to conduct innovative research projects spanning cancer development, diagnosis, and treatment. This is the 12th year the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust has partnered with Pew to support promising cancer researchers. “Cancer continues to have a profound impact on the lives of so many, but scientific advancements hold hope for improving how we ...

PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 2025 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The 10 postdoctoral fellows from five Latin American countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—will receive two years of funding to conduct research in laboratories throughout the United States. They will work under the mentorship of prominent biomedical scientists, including alumni from the Latin American fellows program and the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. “Scientific ...

Vaginal health is tightly linked to the balance of bacteria in the microbiome, especially certain species of Lactobacillus. When this balance is disturbed—a condition known as dysbiosis—it can lead to increased risk of infections, complications during pregnancy, and other long-term health concerns. Despite this risk, existing diagnostic methods often fall short, especially in detecting Lactobacillus iners, an important vaginal bacterium, which doesn't always show up under a microscope or in lab cultures. Researchers at Vanderbilt University are ...

Advances in technology have led to the miniaturization of many mechanical, electronic, chemical and biomedical products, and with that, an evolution in the way these tiny components and parts are transported is necessary to follow. Transport systems, such as those based on conveyor belts, suffer from the challenge of friction, which drastically slows the speed and precision of small transport. Researchers from YOKOHAMA National University addressed this issue by developing an untethered levitation device capable of moving in all directions. The frictionless design ...

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts, a phenomenon they describe as “cell-in-cell.” The results of this five-year study, led by Y. Lynn Wang, MD, PhD, FCAP, a Professor and physician-scientist in the Department of Pathology and the Cell Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase, could mark a major change in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2025 – Medical imaging methods such as ultrasound and MRI are often affected by background noise, which can introduce blurring and obscure fine anatomical details in the images. For clinicians who depend on medical images, background noise is a fundamental problem in making accurate diagnoses. Methods for denoising have been developed with some success, but they struggle with the complexity of noise patterns in medical images and require manual tuning of parameters, adding complexity to the denoising process. To solve the denoising problem, some researchers have drawn inspiration from quantum mechanics, which describes how matter and energy behave at the ...

What is Long COVID?   Despite hundreds of published studies and millions affected worldwide, the medical field still lacks a clear answer.   New research from UCLA finds that the definition of Long COVID varies so widely across published studies that the percentage of people identified as having the condition can differ dramatically, making it harder to treat patients and advance research.   The study, published August 12 in JAMA Network Open, highlights just how much the lack of a standard definition is clouding our understanding of Long COVID.  “The findings highlight the need for ...

About The Study: In this prospective cohort study of adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection, participants with current self-reported long COVID (defined as developing new, persistent symptoms lasting 3 months or longer after SARS-CoV-2 infection) reported worse work impairment, missed work, and financial distress compared with those who never had long COVID, while vaccination was associated with improved work outcomes and less financial distress even among individuals with long COVID. These data underscore the need for post-pandemic assistance programs, as well as vaccination ...

About The Study: In this cohort study, worse hospital financial health was associated with decreased likelihood of providing perinatal services. These hospitals were more frequently located in southern and rural areas. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Elizabeth G. Salazar, MD, MSHP, email salazare@chop.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26418) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, conflict of ...

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2025 – In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, leopardlike spots with black borders within a red mudstone and might hold clues about sources of organic molecules within Mars. Here on Earth, in Review of Scientific Instruments, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology used a technique called optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study a visually similar rock. They wanted to ...

Weaver ants have solved a problem that has plagued human teams for centuries: individuals contribute less to tasks when more people join in. New research published in Current Biology on 12 August shows individual weaver ants instead get stronger as their group grows. "Each individual ant almost doubled their pulling force as team size increased – they actually get better at working together as the group gets bigger," says lead author Madelyne Stewardson from Macquarie University. The longstanding problem in human teams was first published by French engineer Max Ringelmann in 1913 who measured ...

UC Davis Health researchers have discovered that a natural molecule made by gut bacteria can reverse liver damage and repair the gut lining after aflatoxin exposure. The treatment may offer a new, non-toxic way to prevent and treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a growing health problem affecting more than 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. The study revealed that 10-hydroxy-cis-12-octadecenoic acid (10-HSA), a compound produced by Lactobacillus bacteria, successfully restored gut-liver health in mice exposed to aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is a toxic substance made by mold commonly found in peanuts, ...

With the rapid development of 5G and 6G communication technologies, microwave dielectric ceramics have become essential materials widely used in microwave components such as filters, oscillators, and dielectric antennas. To meet the demands of high-frequency wireless communication, microwave dielectric ceramics should possess a low dielectric constant (εr < 15) to reduce signal transmission delay, a high quality factor (Q×f > 50,000 GHz) to achieve low dielectric loss and enhance frequency selection characteristics, and a near-zero resonant frequency temperature coefficient (τf ≈ 0 ppm/°C) to ensure ...

High-brightness laser-driven light sources, which are generated by exciting phosphor materials with high power density blue laser diodes, hold great promise for applications in long-distance searchlights, high-luminance projection displays, and long-range night vision systems. The luminance of these light sources is primarily influenced by two critical parameters: the maximum luminous flux and the illuminated area (i.e., light spot area). Both of these factors are contingent upon the properties of the phosphor ...

“Collectively, these findings suggest that increased leisure-time physical activity and reduced sedentary behavior may have beneficial effects on epigenetic aging.” BUFFALO, NY — August 12, 2025 — A new research perspective was published in Aging (Aging-US) on July 8, 2025, titled “Exercise as a geroprotector: focusing on epigenetic aging.” In this perspective, led by Takuji Kawamura from Tohoku University, researchers reviewed existing evidence from scientific studies showing that regular exercise, physical activity, and ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Algorithms submitted for an AI Challenge hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have shown excellent performance for detecting breast cancers on mammography images, increasing screening sensitivity while maintaining low recall rates, according to a study published today in Radiology, the premier journal of the RSNA. The RSNA Screening Mammography Breast Cancer Detection AI Challenge was a crowdsourced competition that took place in 2023, with more than 1,500 teams participating. The ...

MIAMI, FLORIDA (EMBARGOED UNTIL AUG. 12, 2025 AT 10:00 A.M. ET) – Despite increasing evidence linking alcohol consumption to cancer, little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the association. A new study, published Aug. 12 in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggests that inhibiting a cellular molecule called CREB might thwart pancreatic tumor development in response to alcohol. “Our model serves as an important platform for understanding how chronic inflammation related to alcohol consumption accelerates the development ...