When considering how to use marine spaces and allocate resources to their management, policymakers would do well to take a gender-sensitive approach. So say UC Santa Barbara researchers and their collaborators in a study published in the journal Marine Policy. According to their findings, globally, men and women tend to use the ocean in different ways, with implications for how marine spaces are used and valued.

Advances in human stem cell-derived disease models have the potential to augment our predictive power for the efficacy and safety of new drugs. This technology, which complements existing approaches, is poised to reduce R&D costs and accelerate the development of new therapies for patients.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has assembled an international consortium of cross-sector thought leaders from industry, academia, and regulatory science to enable the widespread, responsible adoption.

A newly refined method for measuring the Pace of Aging in population-based studies provides a powerful tool for predicting risks associated with aging, including chronic illness, cognitive impairment, disability, and mortality. Developed by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the method offers researchers and policy makers a novel approach to quantify how quickly individuals and populations experience age-related health decline.

When formulating climate policy, too little attention is paid to social factors and too much to technological breakthroughs and economic reasons. Because citizens are hardly heard in this process, European governments risk losing public support at a crucial moment in the climate debate. This is the conclusion of several researchers from Radboud University in a paper published this week in Earth System Governance.

To analyse global competition in future battery technologies for electric vehicles, a research team from the Universities of Münster and Cambridge and the Fraunhofer FFB compared patents and innovation strategies from China, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States.

From next year, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) undergraduates can carry out meaningful community service and earn academic credits through Care, Serve, Learn, a new series of courses in the University’s mandatory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core curriculum. Along the way, students will deepen social awareness and build essential skills such as active listening, advocacy, and project management – skills that will equip and inspire in them a lifelong commitment to serve the community in the private, public or non-profit sectors.