6-Feb-2025 Interest rate cuts, lower inflation, trade shifts – will Australia’s economy find its stride in 2025? University of South Australia Australian households and businesses should benefit from lower interest rates and improved market conditions, in what a University of South Australia economist predicts will be a year of recovery for the country.
6-Feb-2025 More than 400 lives saved with NASA’s search and rescue tech in 2024 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center This story highlights the 407 lives NASA-developed search and rescue technologies saved in the United States in 2024 and outlines the technology’s role in the upcoming Artemis missions.
6-Feb-2025 Questions and answers about the earthquakes near Santorini Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) 6.February 2025 An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around Santorini since 24 January. The seismic activity is concentrated in the area between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, with a centre around 25 km north-east of Santorini. The GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences Potsdam classify the current events in eight questions & answers.
6-Feb-2025 From SMS scams to echo chambers: COMET analyzes the impact of digital threats IMDEA Networks Institute IMDEA Networks has successfully completed its participation in the COMET project, an initiative funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Union through NextGenerationEU/PRTR funds. This project, led at our institute by researcher Guillermo Suárez-Tangil, has made significant advances in the study of malicious software, online fraud, and the spread of disinformation on social media.
6-Feb-2025 In unity against gun violence, UB and MSU invite peer medical schools to Remembrance Conference 2025 June 6-8 in Buffalo University at Buffalo On June 6-8, faculty and students of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and the MSU College of Human Medicine will gather for Remembrance Conference 2025 at UB, the third time the schools are hosting this exchange.
6-Feb-2025 Medical lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and JR Fukuchiyama Line derailment accident Kobe University A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI Joji was a medical professional when the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck in January 1995 and the JR Fukuchiyama Line derailment happened in April 2005. We asked him how it was at the time and what lessons have been learned.
6-Feb-2025 Two surgeon-scientists receive top national research awards to improve outcomes for SG-prevalent liver and head & neck cancers SingHealth The prestigious Singapore Translational Research (STaR) Investigator Award has been awarded to two surgeon-scientists at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) to pursue novel research in liver cancer and head and neck cancers. Globally, liver cancer and head and neck cancers are more prevalent in Singapore and Asia, highlighting the need for improved understanding and treatment options to enhance patient outcomes here.
6-Feb-2025 Renowned UTHealth Houston researcher discusses what 4,000-year-old mummies tell us about heart disease, and why it’s preventable University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking – considered to be a relatively recent societal curse – are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist thousands of years ago? Renowned UTHealth Houston cardiologist Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, discussed what examining 4,000-year-old mummies and living hunter-gatherer tribes suggests about the basis of heart disease and whether we could eliminate it in our lifetime.
5-Feb-2025 Annual increase of whole-atmosphere mean concentration of carbon dioxide in 2024 was the largest in the past 14 years National Institute for Environmental Studies The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have been jointly promoting the development and operation of satellites to monitor the concentrations of greenhouse gases (GOSAT Series). Observations by the “IBUKI” (GOSAT) satellite, the first satellite in the GOSAT Series, have revealed that the annual increase of the whole-atmosphere mean concentration of carbon dioxide (i.e., average concentration throughout Earth’s atmosphere) from 2023 to 2024 was 3.5 ppm, the largest annual increase since GOSAT began providing annual increase data in 2011. Funder National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ministry of the Environment
5-Feb-2025 Report urges global leaders to address environmental, social and economic crises comprehensively Rutgers University Pamela McElwee, a Rutgers University professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has spent the last 25 years studying human adaptation to global environmental change. Recently, as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), McElwee oversaw the culmination and global adoption of the Nexus Assessment Report. McElwee discusses her experience during the report’s finalization and her hopes for its impact.
