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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 13-Dec-2025 13:11 ET (13-Dec-2025 18:11 GMT/UTC)

Majority of 117 surveyed Georgia women would support abortion at 14 weeks, beyond current legal limit

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Among a cross-sectional group of women of reproductive age in Georgia, 76% supported the legality of abortion access at six weeks and 60% supported it at 14 weeks, according to a new study published November 12, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Stephanie Eick of Emory University, U.S. The current state policy, effective since July 2022, limits abortion to six weeks.

Journal: PLOS One

Design Stories Warsaw

SWPS University
Meeting Announcement

What challenges do designers face in a rapidly transforming world? How does the act of making become a dialogue between people, places, and resources? What is the role of museums and design pedagogy? Join us on November 20-21 at the School of Form, SWPS University, for Design Stories Warsaw – a free conference highlighting women designers, creative innovation, and social responsibility.

Meeting: Design Stories Warsaw

Mizzou researchers create a new way to study heart valve stiffness

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Missouri are working to develop a new platform for testing treatments for heart valve stiffness—a condition caused by calcium buildup that can make it harder for the heart to pump blood efficiently.

Journal: Circulation Research

Higher methane emissions from warmer lakes and reservoirs may exacerbate worst-case climate scenario

Linköping University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from lakes and reservoirs risk doubling by the end of the century due to climate change according to a new study from Linköping University, Sweden, and NASA Ames Research Center in the US. This in turn could raise Earth’s temperature more than suggested by the UN climate panel IPCC’s current worst-case scenario.

Journal: Nature Water
Funder: European Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, NASA’s Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) Program, NASA Terrestrial Ecology and Tropospheric Composition Programs, Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas

New report reveals surge in K–12 data science education nationwide

University of Chicago
Reports and Proceedings

Data Science 4 Everyone today announced the release of its "State of the Field 2025 Data Science and Data Literacy Education in US K-12” report, highlighting rapid growth and new policy initiatives in K–12 data science education across the United States. Building on insights from the National Academies’ September 2022 workshop, this year's issue presents the latest data and case studies on how schools, districts, and states are preparing the next generation for a data-driven world.

New study finds generative AI can brainstorm objectives but needs human expertise for decision quality

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While generative AI (GenAI) can help define viable objectives for organizational and policy decision-making, the overall quality of those objectives falls short unless humans intervene.

Journal: Decision Analysis

Mapping metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease models of care across 17 Middle East and North Africa countries: Insights into guidelines, infrastructure, and referral systems

Xia & He Publishing Inc.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) represents an escalating healthcare burden across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; however, system-level preparedness remains largely undefined. This study aimed to assess existing models of care, clinical infrastructure, policy frameworks, and provider perspectives across 17 MENA countries.

Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology

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