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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Jul-2025 02:10 ET (11-Jul-2025 06:10 GMT/UTC)

15-Jan-2025

Armed conflict in Africa may hamper girls’ educational attainment nearby

Across 28 countries in Africa, armed conflict within 25 kilometers of a female primary school student’s household is associated with a reduction in schooling of 0.38 years by the time she reaches adolescence – while male students do not experience a similar effect. Xiao Hui Tai of the University of California, Davis, U.S., presents these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on January 15, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

15-Jan-2025

Daron Acemoglu to receive 2025 Sage-CASBS Award

SAGE
Grant and Award Announcement

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, who’s been dubbed one of the “World’s Top Thinkers” by the popular press, will receive to the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford announced today.

15-Jan-2025

A ‘smoke-free generation’ in Canada? New analysis says it would result in vast health gains, healthcare cost savings

University of Ottawa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A highly compelling analysis by a University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine's health economist explores the long-term impacts of one bold smoking restriction proposal: a lifetime ban on tobacco products to individuals born after a specific date.

Journal: Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada

15-Jan-2025

Simon Fraser University awarded $22.9 million to lead National Invention to Innovation (I2I) network expansion

Simon Fraser University
Grant and Award Announcement

Simon Fraser University (SFU) has been awarded approximately $23 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Lab to Market program, to expand their award-winning Invention to Innovation (i2I) suite of programs over the next five years. The i2I programs provide bilingual innovation and entrepreneurship training for graduate students, researchers and faculty in STEM and healthcare fields.

15-Jan-2025

Could this fundamental discovery revolutionise fertiliser use in farming?

John Innes Centre
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes.

Journal: Nature
Funder: BBSRC/UKRI

15-Jan-2025

What a magic school bus taught us about science education

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

Matthew Wisnioski, associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society, received a National Science Foundation grant to explore the history of “The Magic School Bus,” and to better understand how multimedia, educational entertainment experiments transformed science education.

15-Jan-2025

New West Health-Gallup survey finds incoming Trump administration faces high public skepticism over plans to lower healthcare costs

West Health Institute
Reports and Proceedings

Nearly half of Americans (46%) think the country is headed in the wrong direction when it comes to the incoming president’s policies to lower healthcare costs, while 31% say it’s on the right track, according to the latest West Health-Gallup survey released today.