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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Sep-2025 19:11 ET (10-Sep-2025 23:11 GMT/UTC)

New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, and that none of the generations born after 1939 will reach 100 years of age on average.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Stroke risk highest among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander people

American Academy of Neurology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study found that Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander people had the highest rate of stroke among people from other race and ethnic groups, with a rate more than three times higher than that of white people. The study is published on August 27, 2025, in Neurology^®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Journal: Neurology

Study explores how teacher training and reading programs affect literacy in Mozambique

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Literacy rates in Sub-Saharan Africa remain low, despite increased primary school enrollment. In rural Mozambique, only 3% of children possess grade-level reading skills. Poor learning outcomes in lower grades are a barrier to further expanding school enrollment at higher grade levels. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explores whether a teacher training program and reading camps could improve literacy levels among elementary school children.

Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture

UC to launch center focused on ethical AI

University of Cincinnati
Grant and Award Announcement

A nearly $500,000 federal grant was awarded to the University of Cincinnati to establish the Center for Explainable, Ethical, and Trustworthy AI (CEET), a first-of-its-kind hub for humanities-based research and public engagement on the societal dimensions of artificial intelligence.

Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities

New crocodile-relative “hypercarnivore” from prehistoric Patagonia was 11.5ft long and weighed 250kg

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A newly-discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil from Argentina, according to a study published August 27, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Fernando Novas from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Argentina, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

“Unhappiness hump” in aging may have disappeared worldwide

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new survey-based study suggests that the “unhappiness hump”—a widely documented rise in worry, stress, and depression with age that peaks in midlife and then declines—may have disappeared, perhaps due to declining mental health among younger people. David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on August 27, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

Breathwork can induce altered states of consciousness linked with changes in brain blood flow

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Breathwork while listening to music may induce a blissful state in practitioners, accompanied by changes in blood flow to emotion-processing brain regions, according to a study published August 27, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Amy Amla Kartar from the Colasanti Lab in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, U.K., and colleagues. These changes occur even while the body’s stress response may be activated and are associated with reporting reduced negative emotions.

Journal: PLOS One

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