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.
5-Feb-2025 Rice computer science professor receives Secretary of Energy Achievement Award Rice University Rice’s John Mellor-Crummey was honored in January with a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award as a member of the leadership team of the Department of Energy’s seven-year, $1.8 billion Exascale Computing Project.
5-Feb-2025 Particle science advances agricultural practices Purdue University Frequent explosions plagued the U.S. grain industry until the Occupational Safety and Health Administration introduced new grain-handling standards in 1988. The number of explosions soon dropped. Still, grain handling and processing facilities in the U.S. have experienced a 10-year average of 8.4 incidents annually, said Kingsly Ambrose, professor of agricultural and biological engineering. During the last decade these incidents have led to dozens of injuries and fatalities, millions of dollars in damage, and operational downtime. Funder U.S. Department of Agriculture, CNH Industrial, Bayer
5-Feb-2025 SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies DOE/Sandia National Laboratories In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions. Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
5-Feb-2025 ETRI achieves significant milestones at WTSA-24 National Research Council of Science & Technology Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has achieved significant milestones at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-24), the highest decision-making body for telecommunications standardization, by securing six leadership positions. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
5-Feb-2025 Top 10 things to know about your health costs right now Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan When it comes to the cost of prescription drugs, doctor’s appointments, hospitalizations, scans and blood tests, there’s a lot that could change in 2025. And there’s a lot that you might not realize has changed already. There’s also misinformation running around social media about changes that haven’t actually happened.
5-Feb-2025 From innovation to industry: ORNL Researchers complete Energy I-Corps program DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nick Gregorich and Syed Islam, ORNL R&D staff, recently completed Cohort 19 of the Energy I-Corps program, an initiative of DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, that provides teams of researchers and industry mentors with an immersive two-month training to develop commercialization pathways for laboratory-developed technologies.
