East Hanover, NJ – September 5, 2025 – The latest National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report shows that, in contrast to people without disabilities, the employment and labor force participation of people with disabilities of people with disabilities increased, narrowly reaching all-time highs, according to nTIDE experts. nTIDE is issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability. Month-to-Month nTIDE Numbers (comparing July 2025 to August 2025) Based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Jobs Report released today, the employment-to-population ratio ...

Key points: Utah refugees face very high levels of food insecurity. Food insecurity spikes when refugees become ineligible for food assistance. Proposed solutions include improving education about resources and increasing access to gardens. IMPACT: Timely interventions to reduce food insecurity could benefit health and save the U.S. healthcare system billions. Three months ago, you left your country fearing for your life.  Now, you’re learning to navigate a new city, where the street signs are in a new language. You’re ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In the quest to address infertility, Cornell University researchers have developed a groundbreaking device that could simplify and automate oocyte cumulus removal, a critical step in assisted reproductive technologies. Their vibration-powered chip not only simplifies a complex procedure but also extends it to areas of the world lacking skilled embryologists or well-funded labs—reducing overall costs. This offers hope to millions of couples struggling with infertility – and makes fertility treatments more accessible worldwide. “This ...

Embargoed: Not for Release Until 2:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time Friday, 05 September 2025 In brief:  Countries that have ratified the Port State Measures Agreement, which entered into force in 2016, are required to designate certain ports for foreign vessels to land their fish and undergo standardized inspections to identify illegal catches.  As more countries adopted the internationally binding agreement between 2016 and 2021, the distance that foreign fishing vessels needed to travel to reach a port within a country that had not ratified the treaty doubled. Domestic fishing ...

Scientists transform plastic waste into efficient CO2 capture materials From waste to valuable resource: Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as they address two of the world’s biggest challenges: plastic pollution and the climate crisis. As CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere keep rising regardless of years of political intentions to limit emissions, the world’s ...

The study, published today (5 September) in the journal Science Advances, indicates how the heating in North America can trigger remote effects in Asia – this could be further exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming and human modification of the North American land surface. The authors of the study say their findings emphasise the importance of global cooperation in addressing climate change. Using climate models, scientists from the University of Bristol and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

  Agreement focuses on rimiducid, an agent used to activate certain safety switch technologies in cell therapies Phoenix receives a supply of rimiducid and support to seek regulatory approval of a new proprietary injectable formulation, retaining exclusive rights for use in its novel in vivo gene therapy programs MD Anderson receives rights to the new formulation of rimiducid for use with its inducible switches exclusively in ex vivo cell therapies Collaborators hope to use these tools to further enhance cell and gene therapies HOUSTON and MIAMI, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Phoenix SENOLYTIX, Inc., today announced ...

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the solar system. As a source of clean energy, hydrogen is well-suited for sustainable development, and Earth is a natural hydrogen factory. However, most hydrogen vents reported to date are small, and the geological processes responsible for hydrogen formation—as well as the quantities that can be preserved in geological settings—remain unclear. To better understand the availability of geological hydrogen, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and their collaborators discovered and analyzed a large pipe swarm—a ...

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that insect populations are rapidly declining even in relatively undisturbed landscapes, raising concerns about the health of ecosystems that depend on them.  Keith Sockman, associate professor of biology at UNC-Chapel Hill, quantified the abundance of flying insects during 15 seasons between 2004 and 2024 on a subalpine meadow in Colorado, a site with 38 years of weather data and minimal direct human impact. He discovered an average annual decline of 6.6% in insect abundance, amounting to a ...

Breaking free from spectral limits From thermal cameras to multispectral sensors, modern surveillance technologies are increasingly difficult to evade, creating urgent demand for camouflage that adapts across both visible and infrared bands. Yet progress has long been constrained by three persistent challenges: the tight coupling between visible color shifts and infrared emissivity, which forces trade-offs; the limited thermal modulation range of existing devices, typically <15 °C and insufficient for extreme environments such as deserts with >60 °C swings; and scalability constraints, with most prototypes restricted ...

MD Anderson Research Highlights for September 5, 2025 Clinical trials show promising results in treating pancreatic and colorectal cancers New treatment strategies improve outcomes for patients with kidney and testicular cancers Novel research techniques enable advances in gene-drug interactions, breast cancer progression, and identifying pre-cancerous lesions Biomarkers help predict risk for oral cancer metastasis HOUSTON, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team’s advancement is a new example of a “time crystal.” That’s the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion. The researchers aren’t the first to make a time crystal, but their creation is the first that humans can actually ...

The Europlanet Science Congress 2025 will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS2025) from 7–12 September 2025 at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland. With around 1800 participants expected to join in person and online, it will be the largest planetary science meeting held to date in Europe. Press briefings will be livestreamed and press notices on presentations of interest to the media will be issued by the EPSC-DPS2025 ...

Since their discovery at Drexel University in 2011, MXenes — a family of nanomaterials with unique properties of durability, conductivity and filtration, among many others — has become the largest known and fastest growing family of two-dimensional nanomaterials, with more than 50 unique MXene materials discovered to date. Experimentally synthesizing them and testing the physical properties of each material has been the labor of tens of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries. But a recent discovery by a multi-university collaboration of researchers, led by Drexel University researcher Yury ...

Chicago, IL — The JAMA Network announces the launch of JAMA+ Women’s Health, a new digital resource designed to elevate the visibility and accessibility of trusted, peer-reviewed content that advances health care for women across the globe. Recognizing that women’s health is more comprehensive than reproductive care, gynecologic and breast cancer, and menopause, JAMA+ Women’s Health will showcase rigorous studies that include or focus exclusively on women from across JAMA and the 12 JAMA Network journals. Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, the JAMA+ Women’s Health Editor in Chief, will curate the site.  “There’s ...

Highly efficient controlling the individual atomic migration is the basis of the modern atomic manufacturing. Although one-by-one atom migration can be realized precisely by STM technique, such a delicate operation is time consuming and restrictive conditions (e.g., high-vacuum) is required. A research team from the Institute of Modern Optics and the Center for Single Molecule Science at Nankai University, China, has now reported a breakthrough method to achieve efficient atomic migration under room temperature and atmospheric conditions. Their study, titled “Surface Plasmon Driven Atomic Migration Mediated by Molecular Monolayer,” was recently published in PhotoniX. By ...

Five researchers from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. They are  Michael Lerch, Loredana Protesescu, Tim Lichtenberg and Alexander Belyy from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Miles Wischnewski from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. The European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants amount to €1.5 million each, for a period of five years. The grants are intended for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe. Miles Wischnewski: The role of phase coding in memory processing Imagine walking into a room ...

Organ donors can save lives, for example those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and the waiting lists are long. 3D bioprinting of (parts of) organs may offer a solution to this shortage in the future. But printing living tissues, bioprinting, is extremely complex and challenging. The team of Riccardo Levato at UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University is now taking an important step toward printing implantable tissues. Using computer vision, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), they’ve developed a 3D printer that doesn’t just print, it also sees and ...

Temperatures in the Mediterranean are currently rising to record levels. Instead of a refreshing dip, holidaymakers in places like Greece, Italy, and Spain, among other places, are now facing water temperatures up to 28°C or even higher. With an average water temperature of 26.9°C, July 2025 was the warmest since records began for the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Copernicus Earth Observation Service. Warming caused by climate change is considered – alongside stressors such as overfishing, pollution, and habitat destruction – a major factor threatening marine and coastal habitats. “The consequences ...

Scientists have developed a tool made from a modified glue gun that can 3D print bone grafts directly onto fractures and defects during surgery. The tool, described September 5th in the Cell Press journal Device, has been tested in rabbits to quickly create complex bone implants without the need for prefabricating in advance. What’s more, the team optimized the 3D-printed grafts for high structural flexibility, release of anti-inflammatory antibiotics, and promotion of natural bone regrowth at the grafting site. Historically, bone implants have been made of metal, donor ...

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester palaeontologists in a post-mortem 150 million years in the making. Detailed in a new study in the journal Current Biology, their findings show how these flying reptiles were tragically struck down by powerful storms that also created the ideal conditions to preserve them and hundreds more fossils like them. The Mesozoic, or age of reptiles, is often imagined as a time of giants. Towering dinosaurs, monstrous marine reptiles, and vast-winged pterosaurs dominate museum halls and the public consciousness. But this familiar picture is skewed. Just as today’s ...

About The Study: In this survey study examining food insecurity in the U.S. during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity declined among all subgroups between 2019 and 2021 but exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 2023; new food insecurity accounted for much of that increase. The increase in new food insecurity is concerning, as these households face elevated risk for adverse health outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Elise Sheinberg, MPH, RDN, email esheinberg@g.harvard.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3603) Editor’s ...

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that caregiver stress and household instability may be key mechanisms by which food insecurity is negatively associated with child mental health. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Merelise R. Ametti, PhD, MPH, email merelise.ametti@mainehealth.org. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.30691) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, conflict of interest and financial disclosures, and funding and ...

About The Study: This retrospective cohort study of incident hemodialysis patients found that system-based disparities in pre-dialysis access to nephrology care contribute to approximately one-third of incident vascular access disparities among Hispanic individuals. Targeted system-based remedies and policies are needed to improve timely identification and nephrology referrals among Hispanic individuals, for equitable improvements in incident kidney failure outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Ashutosh M. Shukla, ...

New Brunswick, NJ, September 5, 2025 -- When hospitalized patients struggle to breathe, doctors typically reach for their stethoscopes, but results from a Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health clinical study in JAMA Network Open suggest they should diagnose the problem with portable ultrasounds instead. The study found initial exams with portable ultrasounds led to better diagnoses, shorter hospital stays and big cost savings. However, the findings revealed a need for additional training and workflow integration to help clinicians ...