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12-Mar-2025

Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

IPHES-CERCA leads a study published in Nature on ‘Pink,’ a facial fragment discovered in Sima del Elefante.

This fossil has been assigned to Homo aff. erectus, a different and more primitive species than Homo antecessor.

This study confirms that Western Europe was inhabited by at least two different species of hominins during the Early Pleistocene.

Journal: Nature

12-Mar-2025

Study points the way to developing the Amazon bioeconomy

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experimentalist governance, which learns from practice itself, and valuing local communities and traditional knowledge are the strengths of the project, which reconciles environmental conservation with job creation and income generation.

Journal: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

12-Mar-2025

Food insecurity and incident cardiovascular disease among Black and White US individuals

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this prospective cohort study among participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, food insecurity was associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) even after adjustment for socioeconomic factors, suggesting that food insecurity may be an important social deprivation measure in clinical assessment of CVD risk. Whether interventions to reduce food insecurity programs can potentially alleviate CVD should be further studied.

Journal: JAMA Cardiology

12-Mar-2025

Trust in the European Union is not catching up to pre-crisis levels, finds new study

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

EU citizens’ trust in the European Union has not been steadily increasing as hoped, as a result of past crises, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. 

Journal: Journal of Contemporary European Studies

12-Mar-2025

Lighting the way: how activated gold reveals drug movement in the body

Waseda University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tracking targeted drug delivery is often a challenge due to limitations in the current imaging techniques. A recent study by Tokyo’s Waseda University reports a breakthrough imaging technique that allows direct and highly sensitive tracking of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) inside the body. This novel technique, which uses neutron activation of gold, could revolutionize cancer drug delivery by enabling real-time visualization of the gold nanoparticles without external tracers.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters

12-Mar-2025

Transgender and gender diverse people less likely to receive follow-up after a mental health hospitalization

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New study finds that transgender and gender diverse people in Ontario continue to face discrimination in hospital settings when accessing care during a mental health crisis.

Journal: Transgender Health

12-Mar-2025

Young Australians demand action on mental health, cost of living and education reform: report

Curtin University
Reports and Proceedings

A new report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre has revealed that young Australians are feeling the squeeze from financial pressures, worsening mental health and declining trust in political institutions, with concerns about the cost of living now topping their list of priorities.