3-Sep-2025 Cotton crop thrives with timely rains across the state Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Despite some challenges, cotton production is expected to be better than average due to timely rains this season, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service reports around the state. Ben McKnight, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension statewide cotton specialist and assistant professor in the Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station, said the Aug. 25 acreage report from the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation has total planted Texas acres at approximately 5.41 million acres.
3-Sep-2025 WGS boost outcomes for nearly 30% of children with cancer | Childhood Cancer Awareness BGI Genomics September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a reminder that pediatric oncology is fundamentally different from adult oncology. Childhood cancers are often difficult to detect, with symptoms that may appear vague or misleading. whole genome sequencing (WGS) into routine cancer care offers a pathway to closing this gap.
3-Sep-2025 Record honey bee losses prompt AgriLife Extension webinar Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Texas beekeepers lost 61% of their honey bee colonies — nearly 60,000 hives over the past year, according to the most recent statewide survey of more than 400 beekeepers. This was one of the steepest declines in beehives ever recorded in Texas, said Garett Slater, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service honey bee specialist and assistant professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton.
3-Sep-2025 The era of hassle-free plastic recycling is becoming a reality! National Research Council of Science & Technology KIMM’s research team has succeeded in developing the world’s first ultra-high-temperature plasma torch powered entirely by hydrogen. Operating at 1,000–2,000 °C, the torch decomposes mixed waste plastics in less than 0.01 seconds. By controlling the reaction temperature and time, the researchers achieved selectivity levels of 70–90% and ethylene yields exceeding 70%. After purification, more than 99% of the output could be secured as high-purity raw materials for plastic manufacturing. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
3-Sep-2025 How can we make smallholder farming more sustainable, safer and secure to feed a growing world? CABI This year’s Africa Food Systems Summit 2025, in Dakar, Senegal, focuses on Africa’s youth and how they can lead collaboration, innovation, and the implementation of agri-food systems transformation for a stronger and more resilient food value chain. It is estimated that some 500 million smallholder farmers around the world produce around 35-46 percent of the world’s food to help feed just over 8 billion people living on our fragile planet. Smallholder farmers are crucial for global food security. But how can their agricultural practices be more sustainable and safer, reducing contamination of food and feed with mycotoxins and pesticide residues? How can they protect themselves and the environment from pesticide risks? How can young people drive transformation?
3-Sep-2025 New global initiative on maternal and newborn health to be led from Sweden Lund University A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivation stems from a formative experience witnessing a woman bleed to death unnecessarily during childbirth. “The time has come to put maternal and newborn health back at the heart of the global health agenda,” says Mehreen Zaigham.
2-Sep-2025 Researchers urge for U.S. recognition of Chagas as endemic Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Researchers from Texas A&M University, the University of Florida and the Texas Department of State Health Services say the time is now to recognize Chagas disease as endemic in the U.S. The multi-institutional team’s perspective article, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s September volume of Emerging Infectious Diseases, underscores growing evidence that points to endemic transmission.
2-Sep-2025 AI can save lives—But only if we guide it George Mason University In the George Mason University's College of Public Health, researchers are embracing AI’s potential while also interrogating it, testing it, and redesigning it to work better for real people. Faculty are building AI tools to detect cancer earlier, support dementia patients, guide students through biostatistics, document evidence of violence, and flag burnout in caregivers—targeting some of public health’s toughest challenges.
2-Sep-2025 Amid cuts, Illinois SNAP-Ed study reveals powerful partnerships supporting healthy communities University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences A recently published study demonstrates the strength of SNAP-Ed partnerships across the state of Illinois, underscoring the efficacy of collective efforts toward a greater public good. Unfortunately, the loss of federal funding for SNAP-Ed could jeopardize the work these partners are doing, risking the elimination of nutrition education and food access programs in all areas of the state. Journal Health Promotion Practice
2-Sep-2025 Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month urges screening and advocacy in national effort to prevent amputations Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions September is Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month, a time to take action against a disease that affects more than 10 million Americans and is the largest cause of nontraumatic amputations in the United States. That’s why the PAD Pulse Alliance, a coalition of leading medical societies dedicated to improving vascular health, is urging patients, providers, and policymakers to act through its Get a Pulse on PAD Campaign.
