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Student team develops innovative ‘Trojan horse’ in the fight against the Asian hornet

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

An interdisciplinary team of students from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is taking part in iGEM, the prestigious international synthetic biology competition in Paris (13–16 November), this autumn. Using a clever combination of artificial intelligence, a mechanical trap and protein nanofibres, they are presenting a targeted method to efficiently control populations of the Asian hornet.

IIT Gandhinagar's startup goes beyond classrooms to build India’s next changemakers

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

This article features a candid conversation with the founders of AB6 Robotics, Prof. Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Professor at IIT Gandhinagar’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mr. Suyash Patidar, about rethinking robotics education through hands-on learning, building an integrated platform for institutions, and the challenges of commercializing educational hardware.

UConn researcher takes a look at relationship between women and guns

University of Connecticut

To encourage researchers and policymakers to reframe their thinking about how gun violence affects women, Jennifer Dineen, interim director of UConn’s Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship (ARMS) in Gun Violence Prevention, and Kerri Raissian, executive director of the Yale School of Public Health’s Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, partnered with the journal Vital City to publish a special issue, “Women and Guns: A Complicated and Changing Relationship,” that includes more than a dozen pieces on topics from gender and police firearm use to domestic violence.

Funder: Arnold Ventures, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Niskanen Center

OUS plant scientist named among world's top 2% of scientists for sixth consecutive year

Okayama University of Science

Professor Kenichiro Hayashi, a plant scientist at Okayama University of Science in Japan, has been included in a global database of the top 2% of scientists based on standardized citation indicators for the sixth consecutive year. He appears in both the single-year and career-long categories of the latest database, released on October 7.

Nuclear engineering, nanomaterials and radiation research pave the way for a healthier, safer future

Kansas State University

Nuclear engineer Jessika Rojas is working toward a healthier and safer future through research on radiation processing, nanotechnology and nuclear materials.

Removing too much crop waste for bioenergy could come at a cost to biodiversity, study finds

University of Surrey

Crop residues – the stems, leaves and husks left behind after harvesting cereals – could provide an important source of renewable energy for Europe, but research led by the University of Surrey suggests that removing too much from fields could come at a cost to biodiversity.

Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Why the public allows unfair treatment of people in the criminal justice system

Flinders University

Common beliefs that people who commit crime are inherently bad and unlikely to change may make the public more accepting of illegitimate harms within the criminal justice system, according to criminology and psychology experts in the US and Australia.

A new study led by Flinders University, Princeton and Rutgers University academics investigates responses from hundreds of people to assess their reactions towards unsanctioned, ‘incidental’ harms such as police brutality, deprivation in healthcare, and other additional struggles people commonly face in the justice system.

Journal: Law and Human Behavior

Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga appointed as Professor of Nursing Science at the University of Eastern Finland

University of Eastern Finland

Professor Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga at the University of Eastern Finland wants to expand the traditional boundaries of nursing science towards a more global and planetary approach.

As transport decarbonizes, researchers turn their attention to an overlooked source of pollution

Queen Mary University of London

As world leaders, policymakers and industry leaders gather at COP31 to discuss the future of low-carbon transport, researchers are highlighting an environmental challenge that electrification alone cannot solve: tyre wear.

University of South Alabama study sheds light on tick-borne infection

University of South Alabama

Bacteria from the Gulf Coast tick can be transmitted to its host within one hour of attachment before spreading rapidly to lymph nodes and internal tissues, according to new research by a recent graduate of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.

Journal: PLOS Pathogens

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