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Kentucky jail survey highlights overcrowding, mental health screening gaps
The Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health presented the survey to the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary with researchers from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. Of the 76 county jails invited to participate, 58 submitted complete responses.
University of Illinois scientists investigating changes in 165-year-old soil
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Scientists with the University of Illinois are experimenting with what they believe is the oldest wild soil sample in the world. On October 20, researchers conducted a ...
Shaping the Future of Maternal Mental Health Diagnosis Through Precision Technology - Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health
On October 29–30, 2026, the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health brought together patients with lived experience, clinicians, researchers, and…
In brief: Putting the squeeze on gene-editing techniques
Xiaojun “Lance” Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biology at Penn State, alongside biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Tahir Haideri contributed to a paper recently published in Matter. The research, led by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), introduced a physical system that squeezes cells, temporarily loosening the DNA inside and making space for gene-editing tools to reach the target genes. The team said this is an improvement upon previous approaches because it enables a better yield of cell reprogramming, when researchers can coax one cell type to turn into another cell type. Lian and Haideri supported the research by guiding the molecular engineering of reprogramming cells from one type to another, building on their prior work improving how gene-editing tools are delivered to the cell’s genetic material. Editor’s note: The full article describing this work can be found on the UCLA news site.
Scientists achieve record-breaking low temperature on China's space station, paving the way for new physics experiments
Matter starts to behave differently at extremely low temperatures, creating conditions ideal for studying quantum physics and new states of matter. Now, researchers from China have achieved a new low-temperature ...
Perfectly preserved owl fossil from 47 million years ago could help to solve a major evolutionary mystery
A stunning fossil owl from Germany that has its last meal preserved in its stomach helped researchers to narrow down the time when these birds mostly became active at night.
Ten Health Sciences Researchers Earn Competitive Medical Research Fund Awards
Nine Pitt Health Sciences researchers from the School of Medicine and one from the School of Public Health are among the grant recipients.
Scientists discovered an unknown baby right whale off Canada. They say it's a cause for joy
Scientists who study whales are heartened by an unexpected discovery of a baby right whale off Canada. Researchers in Canada captured images of an unidentified baby North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest sea mammals in the world, off Anticosti Island in Quebec in September. Scientists with...
Researchers develop more precise way to identify preeclampsia from electronic health records
Researchers at King's College London have found a more effective method for identifying preeclampsia from electronic health records (EHRs), allowing them to capture cases and associated adverse outcomes ...
Oh boy, all girls again: FAU research tracks sea turtle sex ratios
Forty young sea turtles are back in the ocean, but their future raises a troubling question: Where are the males? After more than two decades of monitoring, FAU researchers are finding increasingly female-biased hatchling populations, with some years producing virtually no males. As warming beach temperatures alter the conditions that determine sea turtle sex, scientists warn that today’s imbalance could threaten the next generation decades from now.
Two-step synthesize superconducting hydride at lower pressures
In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society researchers experimentally synthesized for the first time Mg2RhH6 that exhibits superconductivity at a significantly reduced pressure of 30 GPa. Mg2RhH6 was synthesized via a two-step process and showed superconductivity with a maximum Tc of 29 K. The findings open a highly promising pathway for the rational design and discovery of high temperature superconductors at accessible pressures for industrial pressure facilities.
What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health
The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.
Scientists Discovered a Surprising Natural Insect Repellent, and It’s Pretty Disgusting
Researchers discovered how earwax makes life miserable for insects, potentially inspiring a whole new approach to pest control.
Nondairy creamer is more popular than ever. But is it healthy?
One researcher said some people are getting as much as 500 calories a day from their coffee.
United Methodist pastors report slight health improvements in survey
Duke Clergy Health Collaborative researchers cite GLP-1s and reduced congregational conflict as reasons for lower burnout and obesity rates.
A hacked fridge is a warning for every connected business
"The systems that keep businesses running may be exposed through connections their security teams do not know exist," writes Dr. Guy Waizel, a Tech Evangelist and Senior Researcher at Cato Networks.
Scientists confirm horseshoe crabs in a second Philippine province, urge conservation
Philippine researchers have confirmed the presence of horseshoe crabs in the southern island province of Tawi-Tawi for the first time through interviews with local residents. Previously, scientists had recorded the arthropods’ existence only in the country’s Palawan province. In a recent study, fishers and coastal residents described two distinct horseshoe crab species with features resembling […]
A compact slow-light silicon modulator for faster, more energy-efficient data transfer
As artificial intelligence (AI) drives demand for faster data transfer, conventional silicon optical modulators face speed and energy-efficiency limitations, often requiring power-hungry electronic circuits. By designing electrical and optical structures together, researchers built signal equalization into a compact slow-light silicon modulator. The device achieved data rates of 180 Gb/s without digital signal processing equalization and 200 Gb/s using a low-complexity 11-tap digital equalizer, offering potential for high-capacity, energy-efficient optical connections in future AI data centers.
Brown fat may benefit cardiovascular, psychiatric health
Researchers found brown fat activity was linked to lower odds of cardiometabolic and psychiatric diseases in humans.
3 takeaways from the AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about
Third-party safety researchers embedded in Anthropic's HQ released their first report on Thursday.
Project to rebuild trust in AI era lands Laude’s $10M ‘moonshot’ award
A $10 million “moonshot” grant from Laude Institute will help Cornell researchers realize the potential of artificial intelligence, while giving online communities control over AI’s role.
Creating room for Indigenous researchers to grow
Ava Schaaf can picture the future she wants: medical school, a physician’s degree and another Native doctor for her community. Getting there means working through difficult science courses. It also means finding people who help her believe she belongs.
A sweeter future? AI helps scientists discover new sugar substitutes
Researchers Dr. Shayma El-Atawneh and professor Amiram Goldblum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new computational framework that identified 92 promising candidates for future sugar ...
SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of ID
What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.
Can science fix NYC’s everyday problems? Mamdani is betting $2M on it
Mamdani's program pairs city workers with university researchers to solve everyday problems facing New Yorkers.
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How does an octopus remember what it has learned? A new study led by Dr. Ana Luiza Turchetti-Maia, Dr. Tal Shomrat and professor Binyamin (Benny) Hochner—researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...
'We’re looking at how a bear sees the world': From forest trails to 'Sims for Bears', researchers are learning how grizzlies navigate a fragmented wilderness
Scientists in the U.S. and Canada are decoding grizzly bears' behavior to learn how they navigate a human-dominated world. What they find could build a safer future for both species.
Geneva Health Forum 2026: Rethinking cooperation in global health
From November 10 to 12, at the Biotech Campus in Geneva, the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) will bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, institutional leaders, and representatives from international and humanitarian organizations for three days of debate, networking, and the sharing of experiences.
Three Penn State researchers awarded scientific grants from Kaufman Foundation
The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected three researchers from the Penn State Eberly College of Science to receive scientific research grants: Carlos Blanco, assistant professor of physics, Ribhu Kaul, professor of physics, and Bryce Gadway, professor of physics.
To better predict destructive hail, these scientists are turning to AI
Current forecasts often give warnings about hailstorms 30 minutes in advance. Researchers at Colorado State University say their models may be able to lead to alerts hours or days ahead of time.
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Many female politicians say open hostility towards them is growing. Researchers say democracy could pay the price. #dwgermanpolitics
Sophia Choukas-Bradley and Longfei Shangguan were named Rising Stars of Science
The ranking by Research.com highlights exceptional early-career researchers.
China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space
Researchers use a device mounted on the outside the Tiangong space station to make millimetre-scale cuts.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Samsung honors 10 Korean science and AI research pioneers
Samsung awarded 10 researchers across basic science, materials and ICT from 644 projects backed by its future technology program, the first time the company has done so since launching the initiative in 2014.
U of M and MSU researchers want your tailgate urine on game day — and it’s all for science
Donation stations featuring waterless urinals will open at 1 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Golf Club, across from Gates 2 and 4 of Michigan Stadium, and remain open through the final whistle of the 7:30 p.m. game.
Simonelli Group unveils Science Driven Coffee Cup programme
The Simonelli Group and the University of Camerino have unveiled the programme for the inaugural Science Driven Coffee Cup, bringing together leading researchers and coffee professionals to explore advances in coffee chemistry, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and quality control at the conference in Italy on 19-20 November.
Scientists Uncover a Trove of Ice Age Bones in Peruvian Tar Pit
Researchers in Peru discovered a 15,000-year-old Ice Age tar pit overflowing with fossilized predators, microfossils, and evidence of ancient climate change.
Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
Researchers say group may have been Kremlin-sponsored in search of diplomatic targets.
California professors challenge Trump administration over canceled science grants
Three researchers claim the National Science Foundation targeted federally funded projects involving climate change, diversity and STEM education.
This self-powered toothbrush makes electricity to kill cavity-causing bacteria
Researchers have created a self-charging toothbrush that helps fight the bacteria linked to cavities and gum disease while preventing plaque buildup.
Democratic doctors and scientists ride the blue wave
The clinicians and researchers who will take office are ready to tackle the U.S. health care system.
Democratic doctors and scientists ride the blue wave
The clinicians and researchers who will take office are ready to tackle the U.S. health care system.
Hugging Face Launches ProtoStar to Tackle Science's Data Problem
There’s a lot of scientific data out there – and universities, government agencies, and research labs have spent decades collecting it. This includes everything from climate change to human biology. Much of it is publicly available. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean other researchers can easily use it. Sometimes, just getting the data into a usable […]
Science advocates react to Democrats' historic midterm rout: 'It's a new day in Washington'
Researchers and advocates say they hope the 'blue wave' could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science
CU Anschutz Researchers Evaluate NIH Effort to Connect Research Data
CU Anschutz researchers play a major role in evaluating research data from 18 programs to help scientists uncover relationships across studies and make better use of existing research. AURORA, Colo., Nov. 4, 2026 — Scientists generate vast amounts of research data, but connecting information across studies can be difficult. The NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem […]
Online communication patterns impact adolescent mental health differently
In a study in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, researchers found that online communication with friends was associated with adolescents' mental well-being, but patterns varied by both frequency of communication and the type of friendship.
New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts
By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection.
Science to Advance Soil Health and Future Directions:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers, students, and professionals working in soil science, environmental science, agriculture, and related fields will gather in Gainesville, Florida, on December 4,...
Age may influence links between psychedelic use and mental health
Age could play an important role in how psychedelic use relates to mental health, according to new research from the Department of Psychology at Durham University. Researchers found that adults with a ...
How space weather shapes young planets
Scientists suspect powerful solar flares helped strip away the atmospheres of planets like Mars. A Michigan State University researcher is now searching for evidence of how those same forces shape planets beyond our solar system. Adina Feinstein, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, believes exoplanets are the key to understanding the early days of our solar system. This week, she received a Schmidt Sciences FirstLight grant to investigate how space weather influences young planets.
I’m a scientific researcher. This ethics board has soul-crushing side effects.
Institutional review boards can safeguard human subjects without burying scientists in paperwork.
Permanent daylight saving time has a dark side, scientists warn
A new study warns that permanent daylight saving time could force American children to make at least 2 billion additional school commutes in darkness, potentially increasing safety risks and disrupting their biological clocks. Researchers found that fatal crashes involving school-aged pedestrians were roughly twice as likely during dark mornings as after sunrise.
15-Minute Lesson Plan: A Teen Tracks Down Over 11,377 Moths
Violet Clinton is doing award-winning entomological field research. Is there a citizen science project you might want to conduct?
Molecular dinitrogen anions pave the way for low-temperature ammonia synthesis
New antiperovskite-supported cobalt catalyst can produce ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen under mild conditions without precious metals, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. This self-organizing nanostructured material unlocks a novel cooperative mechanism between cobalt, barium, and aluminum that promotes nitrogen activation through the formation of molecular dinitrogen anions (N2)−, outperforming benchmark ruthenium and industrial iron catalysts.
SLAC scientists find conclusive proof of a mysterious third type of magnetism
For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a remarkable third type called altermagnetism. Using specialized X-rays, they uncovered a unique magnetic signature that proves these materials behave differently from conventional magnets. Altermagnets combine stability with the ability to efficiently carry information, potentially overcoming major limitations in today's electronics. The discovery could lead to faster computers, more efficient data centers, and breakthroughs in quantum technology.
I look up as I walk, my healthcare costs look down
An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher analyzed 338,706 person-months of data linking objective smartphone step counts from Osaka Prefecture’s official health app with health-insurance claims for 20,950 adults aged 40 and over. Generalized additive models revealed that the non-linear association between daily steps and subsequent 6-month healthcare expenditures transforms with age. Predicted costs were largely insensitive to steps among middle-aged adults but fell steeply with increasing steps among older adults.
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute Researchers Contribute to Study Supporting Shorter Radiation Treatment for Breast Cancer Patients
Bruce Haffty, MD, associate Vice chancellor for Cancer Programs at Rutgers Cancer shares about the findings of a recent Journal of Clinical Oncology study supporting shorter radiation treatment for breast cancer patients.
Is politics pushing Americans away from religion?
Some researchers argue that political views are shaping religious affiliation rather than the other way around, a dynamic they say could be hazardous to both American politics and the country’s religious landscape
Michielssen named R. Bruce Sampsell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics
Eric Michielssen, a leading researcher in computational electromagnetics and wave physics, joined the Yale faculty in 2026.
Energy drinks put healthy, young people at heightened risk of cardiac arrest, heart attacks, research shows
Many people assume energy drinks 'contain no real risk,' researchers say. But their study suggests otherwise.
Microbiome research reveals how bacterial lipids influence liver and muscle health in mice
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from UConn and the University of Pittsburgh is filling knowledge gaps about the surprising roles that our microbiomes play in our health. The team's recent studies, ...
The Toronto lab using new science to unlock the secrets of old books
Inside this medieval studies laboratory at the University of Toronto, researchers use high-tech tools to discover hidden text, invisible ink and centuries of human history.
Sandstorm: A new playbook for sharing desert science
Wildcats football and a board game about battling invasive grasses are giving U of A researchers creative ways to connect people with the science of protecting the Sonoran Desert.
Scientists revive decades-old approach to target cancer-linked genes using synthetic DNA
Researchers have developed a new approach that uses synthetic DNA molecules to target cancer-linked genes directly, opening new possibilities for future treatments, diagnostics and biological research.
Google researchers demand freedom to tell the world what they know about AI
Employees said that employment contracts at Google's AI division deter workers from speaking out about the dangers of the technology.
Scientists Asked 50 People to Recreate Their Near-Death Experiences, and the Results Are Pretty Wild
Researchers asked 50 people to recreate their near-death experiences and discovered intriguing patterns in the shapes and colors.
Multi-scale dual-discriminator GAN completes occluded plant point clouds
Researchers have developed a multi-scale dual-discriminator generative adversarial network (MSDDG) to complete missing point clouds of plants, a common problem when optical sensors capture complex canopies.
A biocomputer that runs on bacteria
A McGill-led research team has developed a bacteria-based biocomputer that can solve large, complex problems using a small fraction of the memory and resources required by standard (“solid-state”) computers. Possible applications include encryption, molecular biology and artificial intelligence (AI), the researchers said.
Election Day Could Be a Rainy One in Some Areas
Researchers have found that bad weather can deter certain voters.
5,300-year-old kidney stone the size of a grape found in Bronze Age man's burial near Black Sea
Researchers identified a 5,300-year-old kidney stone in the burial of a Bronze Age cattle herder in Russia.
Research Roundup: Scientists analyze long COVID symptoms, explain thermal noise communication, measure ‘hard’ x-rays
Stanford researchers recently published discoveries in COVID research, low-energy data signals and electron motion imaging.
The zeptoverse: what is it and how will it transform physics?
Researchers have detected signals from the smallest distances ever probed.
Digital Science acquires Jenni AI to connect research sources | ETIH EdTech News
Digital Science acquires Jenni AI, used by more than 8 million students and researchers in 189 countries, with plans to connect it to Dimensions’ 171 million publications. ETIH EdTech News covers the acquisition, academic writing tools, citation verification and continuity for existing subscribers.
Two healthy diets stood out in a study of more than 7,000 adults
In a cross-sectional analysis of 7,256 adults from the Maastricht Study, researchers found that greater adherence to the DASH and Dutch Healthy Diet patterns was associated with higher very-low-frequency (VLF) heart rate variability power, particularly among participants not taking beta-blockers. No significant associations were observed across time-domain HRV measures after full adjustment, and the findings do not establish that these diets improve cardiovascular function.
Researchers target PFAS with lower-temperature destruction method
University of Utah engineers develop process that could destroy “forever chemicals” after they are removed from contaminated water.
Rutgers Is Awarded $3.6 Million to Improve Heart and Metabolic Health in Older Adults With HIV
With a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers researchers will conduct one of largest and most comprehensive studies of heart and metabolic conditions among older adults living with HIV.
According to science, you may be more likely to gain respect and status by helping others
Human intelligence is still a bit of an enigma. Researchers have some ideas about why advanced intelligence evolved in humans, but they have not come to a conclusive answer. One prominent idea is that ...
Ohio State hosts researchers, business leaders to share AI strategies
Students, scholars and business leaders from across the country recently gathered at The Ohio State University to discuss how academic institutions and companies are implementing AI.Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business convened the AI in Business Conference at The Blackwell Inn and Pfahl Conference Center on the Columbus campus. The confere...
Johns Hopkins cancer cell mapping technology chosen for Anthropic AI project
Pioneering AstroPath technology, developed by two Hopkins researchers, combines astronomy, pathology, and AI to create detailed maps of tumors
Wishing upon even star political candidates can be dangerous
Wishing really hard for something won't necessarily make it come true, but a new study from a UConn researcher indicates up to 90% of voters expect their side to win an election, a percentage that's significantly ...
ASGA's Attack on Menhaden Science Exposes Its Own Double Standard
Saltwater guides question the credibility of industry-supported scientists while accepting environmental funding and overlooking conservation advocates' longstanding relationships with fisheries researchers. / ACCESS Newswire / November 2, 2026 / The American Saltwater Guides Association (ASGA) set out to expose what it called "tainted influence" over scientific research used to manage Atlantic menhaden.
Underwater technology showcase brings ocean researchers and industry to URI Narragansett Bay Campus
KINGSTON, R.I. — Nov. 2, 2026 — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, based at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus, hosted an underwater systems and autonomy showcase with two blue technology companies, Sonardyne and Voyis, in early October. The two-day event brought together oceanographers, ocean engineers, industry experts, and other participants […]
UCT researchers name 400 000-year-old fossilised termite nests after Little Karoo town
University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers recently named a series of approximately 400 000-year-old fossilised underground nests of an extinct termite species after Calitzdorp, the Little Karoo town near which they were found. In October 2026, the research team returned to the town to donate a poster documenting their discovery to the Calitzdorp Museum, helping to connect local communities with the region’s remarkable fossil heritage.
Most comprehensive atlas of healthy human tissue launched to help understand disease
Researchers and data scientists from dozens of universities, hospitals and other institutions across the United States have built an online portal that provides free, open access to one of the most comprehensive ...
UAlbany researcher calls for transparency and digital literacy as AI spreads in politics
AI is becoming a powerful tool in political campaigns, but a new study suggests voters’ trust in AI-assisted messaging can hinge less.
Experts could soon reverse daylight savings clock changes. Here’s why
We all love that extra hour we get in bed every October, but researchers argue that changing the clocks twice a year harms our health.
BRC expands support for life sciences research at Cornell
The Biotechnology Resource Center – a set of core facilities providing shared, cutting-edge resources for life sciences research – is enhancing and expanding its support for Cornell researchers.
SESAME Symposium Places Science Diplomacy at the Heart of Regional Cooperation, Peace and Human Responsibility
The role of science in a world increasingly shaped by conflict, technological rivalry and deepening political divisions was at the heart of an international symposium held at the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) in Allan, Jordan, on 28 October 2026. Bringing together senior scientific leaders, diplomats, policymakers and researchers from across the region and beyond, the symposium examined how major research and technology infrastructures can advance international cooperation, strengthen scientific capacity and contribute to peacebuilding.
Deep-sea 'chimneys' found by Chinese team could help submarine warfare
Chinese researchers have identified underwater "inertial chimneys" that channel wind-generated energy thousands of feet into the deep ocean.
Expedition records no blue whales near the Galapagos for nine months
A nine-month expedition near the Galapagos recorded no blue whales amid unusually warm El Niño waters. Researchers suggest the animals may have shifted south toward cooler, more productive waters.
Here's the Food Named the Healthiest in the World by Science, and You Can Grow It on Your Windowsill
Not kale, not blueberries: the peppery green that topped a CDC-published ranking, and how to grow it at home. Every few years, a new superfood takes over grocery aisles and social feeds. Kale had its moment, then blueberries, then avocado. But when a researcher ranked fruits and vegetables by how many nutrients they deliver per calorie,...
How space science is shaping next-gen skincare
As researchers rethink skincare and personal care products for astronauts, the same approach is influencing the beauty industry's earthly customers.
U.S. science academy and IIT Kanpur sign climate research accord
The partnership will bring U.S.-based researchers to India for collaborative projects development and knowledge exchange.
Wishing Upon Even Star Political Candidates Can Be Dangerous
UConn political science researcher finds so-called ‘wishful thinking’ correlates with such negatives as polarization, animosity toward opposing side
Advancing Active Acoustics: How Scientists Use Sound to Monitor a Three-Dimensional Ocean
The ocean is a three-dimensional world. Life moves vertically and horizontally through the water, often across large areas and at depths scientists cannot easily observe. Active acoustic technology gives researchers a tool to sample what’s hidden under the surface, gathering information that nets and other sampling gear cannot capture.
Scientists gather to take the pulse of Wellfleet Harbor
Researchers will share findings on water quality, wildlife and restoration efforts shaping the future of Wellfleet Harbor. The public is invited.
Scientists gather to take the pulse of Wellfleet Harbor
Researchers will share findings on water quality, wildlife and restoration efforts shaping the future of Wellfleet Harbor. The public is invited.
Childhood Mild TBIs Linked to Worse Veteran Mental Health: Study
Researchers studied 1,286 veterans to assess the effect of childhood traumatic brain injury, finding two determining factors for success.
A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles
MIT researchers developed a new way to control how nanoparticles come together to create high-performing materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, agriculture, and more.