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AI4X 2025 Conference: Revolutionize natural science with artificial intelligence

National University of Singapore
Meeting Announcement

The National University of Singapore’s Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (NUS I-FIM) is organising AI4X 2025 for leading researchers, innovators, and industry experts to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving breakthroughs across Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Climate Science, Materials Science, Mathematics, Finance, and more. The conference, which will be held in Singapore on 8 – 11 July 2025, aims to bolster and refine the use of AI research in Natural Sciences, technology and beyond, thereby accelerating scientific discovery and translational potential on all fronts.

Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning

Institute for Basic Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in the journal Science Advances by an international team of climate scientists presents the first realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse gas emissions will likely increase the global lightning frequency by about 1.6% per degree Celsius global warming, with regional hotspots in the eastern United States, Kenya, Uganda and Argentina [Figure 1A]. Locally this could intensify wildfire occurrences. However, the dominant drivers for the growing area burned by fires each year [Figure 1B] remain shifts in global humidity and a more rapid growth of vegetation, which can serve as wildfire fuel.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Institute for Basic Science

ISS National Lab announces funding opportunity to prepare students for STEM careers

International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The International Space Station (ISSInternational Space Station) National Laboratory is soliciting proposals to leverage the orbiting outpost for education programs and training for space-focused careers. This ISS National Lab Research Announcement (NLRAThe abbreviation for an ISS National Lab Research Announcement. NLRAs are one of the ISS National Lab’s primary mechanisms to solicit proposals in specific research areas.) is open to U.S.-based institutions (academic, commercial, government, or not-for-profit) with a vested interest in workforce development and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The solicitation has up to $350,000 in total funding available, with the expectation to award up to three projects.

Telehealth may be closing the care gap for people with substance use disorder in rural areas

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research suggests that people who live in rural areas may be benefiting from telehealth as a modality for substance use disorder treatment to a greater extent than their urban counterparts. Meanwhile, despite accounting for the vast majority of substance use disorder services, people covered by Medicaid managed care are less likely to use telehealth compared with their counterparts who have Medicare Advantage or are commercially insured.

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: National Institute on Aging

Antarctica’s only native insect’s unique survival mechanism

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Japan Science and Technology Agency, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF-NERC, USDA NIFA Hatch Project

Fewer forest fires burn in North America today than in the past—and that's a bad thing

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research analyzed tree rings and fire scars to compare modern fires to those in the past

Journal: Nature Communications

Last chance to get a hotel discount for the world’s largest physics meeting

American Physical Society
Meeting Announcement

Book your hotel for the American Physical Society’s joint March Meeting and April Meeting, now called the Global Physics Summit, being held in person in Anaheim and online everywhere March 17-21.

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