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27-Oct-2025

Daily activities can help social networks evolve, but lasting ties take more

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Almost every big life change, from starting a new school to changing jobs or moving towns, elicits the same advice: get involved and make friends. While there’s some truth to that guidance, it takes more than simply participating in activities to grow a social network, according to research by an international team.

Journal: Transportation
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation

27-Oct-2025

Using AI to shed light on emergency care

The University of Bergen

A multinational collaboration at Eitri medical innovation center in Bergen, Norway, has used machine learning models to identify patient groups at risk of being mistreated at the ER.

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research

27-Oct-2025

Computer scientists build AI tool to spot risky and unenforceable contract terms

New York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To better spot problematic passages in leases and employee contracts, a team of NYU researchers has created a tool that deploys LLMs to analyze contractual agreements and to characterize clauses.

Journal: Electronics

27-Oct-2025

Generative AI can help athletes avoid injuries

University of California - San Diego
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a model driven by generative AI that will help prevent injuries in athletes and also aid in rehabilitation after an injury. The model could also help athletes train better.

27-Oct-2025

Research alert: Rebalancing the gut: how AI solved a 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first Crohn’s disease gene to be associated with a heightened risk for developing the auto-immune condition.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation

27-Oct-2025

How constant is the fine structure constant?

Vienna University of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Atomic clocks are very precise - but nuclear clocks are even better. This completely new technology was made possible by a major breakthrough in 2024. Now, this technology can be used to answer some of the deepest questions in physics: are the natural constants really constant?

Journal: Nature Communications

27-Oct-2025

Global construction carbon footprint set to double by 2050

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As the world marks UN World Cities Day on 31 October – a call to make cities more sustainable – a new international study warns that the global construction sector’s carbon footprint is on track to double by 2050, threatening to derail efforts to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment