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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Sep-2025 11:11 ET (11-Sep-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)

Exposure to extreme heat and cold temperature is leading to additional preventable deaths, new 19-year study suggests

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

There’s No Time to Be Lost to Reduce Deaths From Heatwaves And Extreme Cold in India, Where Study Took Place

Findings Suggest That When Areas Invest in Healthcare, and other Social Sectors, Numbers of Extreme Temperature-Related Deaths Drop

Journal: Temperature

Spacecraft that sweat? A cool new way to tackle atmospheric reentry

Texas A&M University

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to develop and test a 3D-printed material that releases or “sweats” a coolant gas to protect spacecraft. This technology, part of a $1.7 million Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer grant, could enable the design of fully and rapidly reusable spacecraft.

Spurned CEOs may become activist shareholders

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research finds that activist campaigns by quasi-insiders -- former CEOs, directors, or founders, who left the target company for various reasons but still own an ample amount of stock -- are both surprisingly common and surprisingly effective.

Campaigns are common. Between 1995 and 2021, 327 quasi-insiders took part in some 280 public campaigns.

Quasi-insiders are high up. Of the 327, about 38% were former CEOs, 30% company founders, and 21% former directors.

Campaigns often succeed. Of the campaigns, 43% achieved their main objective, such as gaining control of the target company’s board of directors. Cohn calls this rate “strikingly high.”

Wall Street approves. Stock prices of the target companies saw short-term boosts, with a mean increase of 3.9% from a day before the campaign announcement to 10 days after.

Journal: The Review of Corporate Finance Studies

Guideline on platelet and plasma transfusion released by CHEST

American College of Chest Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Published in the journal CHEST^®, the American College of Chest Physicians^® recently released a new clinical guideline on the transfusion of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and platelets in critically ill adults.

Journal: CHEST Journal

"Men evoke more confidence", or why so few women are in leadership positions in ballet

SWPS University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Why are there so few women in leadership positions in Polish ballet? What can be done to change this? A researcher from SWPS University analysed this issue and described her conclusions in a paper published in Research in Dance Education.

Journal: Research in Dance Education

So, our city’s shrinking—Now what?

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher examined the nonlinear multidimensional factors that correlate with population changes according to city size. The results indicate that population changes correlated with welfare expenditures in small and medium-sized cities.

Journal: Journal of Urban Management
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Higher cigarette taxes may improve childhood survival

Karolinska Institutet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A higher tax on cigarettes in low and middle-income countries can help to reduce child mortality, especially amongst the poorest children, a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and published in The Lancet Public Health suggests.

Journal: The Lancet Public Health

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