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15-May-2025

New special issue in "Proceedings of the Royal Society B" reframes the origins of domestication

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International researchers from a range of disciplines challenge long-held assumptions about one of the most transformative processes in human history

Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

14-May-2025

Combining laboratory techniques yields wealth of information about deadly brain tumors

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Clinicians from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and four other institutions have demonstrated that doctors can gain a wealth of knowledge about a patient’s cancer by using multiple laboratory techniques to study tumor tissue taken from needle biopsies of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Journal: Nature Communications

14-May-2025

New global model shows how to bring environmental pressures back to 2015 levels by 2050

Utrecht University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A first-of-its-kind study in Nature finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices—across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency—humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to levels seen in 2015. This shift would move us much closer to a future in which people around the world can live well within the Earth’s limits. “Our results show that it is possible to steer back toward safer limits, but only with decisive, systemic change,” says lead author Prof Detlef Van Vuuren, a researcher at Utrecht University and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

Journal: Nature

12-May-2025

FFAR taps Danforth Center plant scientists for crop research to preserve soil and water health

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Business Announcement

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and matching funders today awarded two Seeding Solutions grants totaling over $5 million to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) for crop development research.

9-May-2025

What NASA is learning from the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

On May 10, 2024, the first G5 or “severe” geomagnetic storm in over two decades hit Earth. The event, named the Gannon storm in memory of leading space weather physicist Jennifer Gannon, did not cause any catastrophic damages. But a year on, key insights from the Gannon storm are helping us understand and prepare for future geomagnetic storms.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics

9-May-2025

Machine learning powers new approach to detecting soil contaminants

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil ⎯ even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a lab.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Welch Foundation, Carl and Lillian Illig Fellowship

9-May-2025

Central Asia's alpine forests: growing against the tide

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study published in Forest Ecosystems shows that low-latitude warming has increased tree growth in Central Asia's alpine forests since the 20th century. Researchers analyzed 128 tree-ring records and found a significant upward trend in tree radial growth, driven by enhanced regional temperatures and precipitation. However, they warn that continued warming may eventually reverse these gains. Future research needs to refine models to better understand these dynamics.

Journal: Forest Ecosystems