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EPIC research doesn't take a summer break
GCU Today
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July 15, 2025
Incoming junior Cierra Baca discusses one of the summer research projects students are working on through the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Epic Lab. One student researcher’s summer job is at In-and-Out Burger. She got home late at...
In wartime innovation, researchers develop artificial skin to help burn victims
The Times of Israel
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Driven by the war and the surging number of soldiers and civilians suffering from severe burns, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center say they have developed a unique bioengineered skin to use for grafting in...
U-M faces federal investigation after arrest of 2 Chinese scientists
WMYD - Michigan
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July 15, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Michigan is under federal scrutiny after two Chinese scientists linked to the school were separately charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States. The Education Department on Tuesday opened...
Humans Could Develop a Powerful Sixth Sense That Expands How We See the World, Scientists Say
Popular Mechanics
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July 15, 2025
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It’s possible for humans to develop echolocation as a type of sixth sense. Echolocation is the ability to find objects through reflected sound. Researchers in Japan proved that humans can “see”...
Rewriting Carbs: Science Reveals the Power of Fiber, Form, and Food Pairing
[your]NEWS
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July 15, 2025
New research overturns decades of carb confusion, showing how whole, unrefined sources can fuel health without the blood sugar crash. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom For years, carbohydrates have been labeled dietary villains. But recent scientific...
LONGi's Tandem Solar Cell Breakthroughs Consecutively Published Online in Nature and Science
Global Times
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Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells have become a global research hotspot in advanced photovoltaics due to their potential of surpassing the Shockley-Queisser theoretical limit efficiency of single-junction solar cells. Traditional...
UT Dallas scientists create food sensor that detects unwanted bacteria, chemicals
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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July 15, 2025
DALLAS -- Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at every level of the food industry -- from processing facilities to home kitchens. Called READ FWDx, short for...
China's Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission targeted for 2031; drone to be deployed for remote sampling: chief scientist
Global Times
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Tianwen-3 mission Photo: file China aims to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars mission by 2028, with sample return targeted for 2031, according to chief scientist Hou Zengqian. Unlike Tianwen-1, which used a rover, this mission will deploy a drone for...
Letter: Here’s what’s wrong with Rep. Moore heaping praise on a scientific institution in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Evan Vucci | AP) Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, speaks with members of the media as Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., listen outside the West Wing after an "Invest in America" roundtable with business leaders at the...
UNM researchers get $1 million grant to launch early clinical trial for Alzheimer’s vaccine
Medical News
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July 16, 2025
University of New Mexico researchers have received funding to launch an early-stage clinical trial of a vaccine engineered to clear pathological tau protein from the brains of patients suffering from Alzheimer's dementia. The Phase 1a/1b trial,...
Is your horse trying to tell you something? It’s very likely, scientists have discovered
Your Horse
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July 15, 2025
Horses have a particularly wide repertoire of facial expressions and not only use them to communicate with each other but also with other species like dogs and humans, experts have shown. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have decoded...
Advocates and researchers call on FDA to strengthen and finalize front-of-package nutrition labeling
Center for Science in the Public Interest - Washington D.C.
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Today, a coalition of 28 prominent consumer, public health, and nutrition groups and 12 academic researchers submitted joint comments on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s front-of-package nutrition labeling proposal. In January 2025, FDA...
Texas is the latest state to embrace psychedelic therapy research for mental health treatment
KRPS - Kansas
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July 15, 2025
Texas has authorized what supporters call the nation's largest state-funded research initiative on psychedelics, joining a handful of states that are embracing the substances as a possible treatment for drug addiction and other health issues,...
Utilise research findings to boost food security, don tells govt
Punch
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July 16, 2025
An agricultural expert and lecturer at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Dr. Philips Nto, has urged the government at all levels to utilise research findings on agriculture as a means of boosting food security in the country....
Dr Boreham’s Crucible: Microba Life Sciences
Stockhead
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July 14, 2025
Microba Life Sciences has been at the forefront of clinical microbiome diagnostics for the last seven years. Pic: Tim Boreham: supplied When Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said the battle between good and evil runs through every man – ok,...
Back in bloom: BYU researchers revamp wildflower project in Rock Canyon to reduce wildfire risk
Daily Herald, Sanpete County - Utah
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A Brigham Young University research group has spent the last 20 years learning how to create wildflower meadows that are resistant to weed reinvasions, leading to reduced wildfire risk and beautified natural areas. Some prior research occurred off...
JUNK SCIENCE FOOD STUFF wrecks your sleep, so eat organic fruits and vegetables and notice a HUGE DIFFERENCE, says study
Natural News
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July 15, 2025
JUNK SCIENCE FOOD STUFF wrecks your sleep, so eat organic fruits and vegetables and notice a HUGE DIFFERENCE, says study A recent observational study published in Sleep Health suggests that increasing fruit and vegetable consumption could...
Not demonising Mughal rulers in textbooks: NCERT social science panel head
The Hindu
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July 15, 2025
The history section of the newly introduced Class 8 social science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for students in the current 2025-26 academic year portrays Mughal rulers, especially Babur, Akbar, and...
Airports could help aliens spot Earth, new research shows
Dunya News
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(Web Desk) - Here on Earth, scientists use huge radio telescopes to scan the skies for signs of advanced alien civilisations hiding out in space. But what if the aliens are doing the same thing? Scientists have revealed that radar systems at...
Erica Rex: Scientific Integrity, Psychedelic Research, and the Religious Leader Study
Psychedelics Today
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July 15, 2025
In this episode, Joe Moore speaks with award-winning science journalist Erica Rex about her personal experience participating in psychedelic research, her upcoming book Seeing What Is There: My Search for Sanity in the Psychedelic Era, and the...