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European high school students emerge from isolation after groundbreaking explore analog space exploration mission

International Science Council Committee on Space Research
Business Announcement

MONSARAZ, PORTUGAL – 30 June 2025 – The silence was broken by cheers and the snap of camera shutters as nine European high school students stepped out of a simulated Mars environment in Portugal, successfully completing the first-of-its-kind EXPLORE analog mission. From 23 to 27 June 2025, these students from Austria, Greece, and Portugal traded their everyday lives for a challenging five-day immersion in an isolated, Mars-like landscape near Monsaraz, in the wilds of the Alentejo province.

Prof. Tamir Sheafer elected President of the Hebrew University

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Business Announcement

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced today (Monday) that Prof. Tamir Sheafer has been elected as its next president. The decision was approved by the University's Executive Committee and Board of Governors. Prof. Sheafer, who currently serves as the university’s rector, will assume the presidency in October 2025, succeeding Prof. Asher Cohen, who will complete two four-year terms in the role.

What credit card habits reveal about Canadian households

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Age, education and even regional differences influence whether people pay off their balances or fall behind, new research reveals.

Journal: International Journal of Bank Marketing

Early 20th century closures of US medical schools resulted in drops in infant mortality, non-infant mortality, and total mortality

Carnegie Mellon University
Reports and Proceedings

Efforts in the early 20th century to improve the quality of medical education in the United States led to a steep decline in the number of medical schools and medical school graduates. In a new study, researchers examined the consequences of these medical school closures between 1900 and 1930 for the number of county-level physicians, nurses, and midwives, and for infant, non-infant, and total mortality. The closures led to a 4% reduction in physicians per capita and resulted in declines in infant mortality, non-infant mortality, and total mortality, they found.

Taking the fear out of quantum physics

University of Texas at Arlington
Meeting Announcement

Just the word “quantum” can make even seasoned science teachers break into a sweat. But a national pilot program led by The University of Texas at Arlington is helping take the mystery out of the subject for students and educators alike. This week, 50 high school students and science teachers gathered at Arlington Martin High School to dive into the topic through Quantum for All, a program launched by Karen Jo Matsler, a professor of practice and master teacher in UT Arlington’s UTeach program.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea

Stevens Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

Image-generating chatbots hallucinate, fabricate and miss cultural nuances. As AI adoption increases, whether for marketing, education, travel or any other use, users will expect to receive information and images that are correct and bias-free. Having the proper terms and language to describe the current issues AI is having will help train it to generate images appropriately.

Meeting: CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A nutritional epigenetics study protocol indicates changes in prenatal ultra-processed food intake may reduce lead and mercury exposures to prevent autism and ADHD

Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Increasing evidence supports the nutritional epigenetics model for autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders that explains how unhealthy diet contributes to the epigenetic inheritance of these disorders. An unhealthy diet characterized by excessive intake of ultra-processed foods results in heavy metal exposures and deficits in zinc that may impact metallothionein gene function. Metallothionein gene malfunction may result in the bioaccumulation of mercury and/or lead in the blood depending on diet. Nutritional epigenetics education may be used as an intervention to reduce the intake of ultra-processed foods and heavy metals in expectant mothers and prevent the development of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders in children.

Journal: World Journal of Experimental Medicine

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