9-Oct-2025 Setting your home up for success: Small animal owner fire awareness Texas A&M University Dr. Kyle Johnson, a clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, provides insight into how owners can protect their homes — and their pets — from fires and the procedures to enact in the event of a fire emergency.
9-Oct-2025 Public health at risk: scientists urge stronger response to climate-driven dangers Kaunas University of Technology Warmer winters, the rapid spread of ticks, heatwaves that pose a threat to the elderly and patients with chronic diseases, heavy rains that cause not only physical injuries but also psychological consequences – these are no longer just future predictions, but increasingly visible phenomena. Climate change is among the main drivers. Journal Sustainable Futures
9-Oct-2025 OU researcher studies how children with hearing loss learn to speak University of Oklahoma Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds from a cochlear implant aren’t as clear as natural hearing, making it harder for children to connect the way they move their mouths with the sounds they hear. Funder Presbyterian Health Foundation
9-Oct-2025 A collective approach to help vulnerable people survive extreme heat University of Arizona Health Sciences The Heat and Health Resilience Innovation Consortium will help protect those most at risk of health threats brought by high temperatures.
9-Oct-2025 Mayo Clinic Q and A: Why aqua exercise works wonders Mayo Clinic Regular exercise provides a wide range of benefits, including weight management, improved cardiovascular health and sleep quality. But for many people, common forms of exercise, such as walking, running and weight training, are a struggle due to pain, weakness, mobility issues or fear of falling. Aquatic exercise is an excellent way to focus on fitness in a gravity-reduced environment. Here's why.
9-Oct-2025 Can a combination of two simple nutraceuticals heal one of the deadliest brain cancers? Cactus Communications Glioblastoma is less aggressive after treatment with resveratrol and copper, study indicates. The potentially game-changing finding sows the seeds of a radically different approach to the treatment of cancer.
9-Oct-2025 Exploring metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with UAlbany chemist Jeremy Feldblyum University at Albany, SUNY UAlbany's Jeremy Feldblyum is an expert in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — versatile molecular materials that can be used to harvest water from the air, capture CO2, store toxic gases and catalyze chemical reactions — which were at the center of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced this week. Feldblyum shares insights on the importance of MOFs and the significance of this year's Nobel nod.
9-Oct-2025 Sustainable plastics from plants Graz University of Technology As a by-product from the wood and paper industries, millions of tonnes of lignin – which provides an important support function in the cells of woody plants – are accumulated worldwide each year. Although widely available, this renewable resource is only rarely used to produce other materials. Now, though, the new Better BioBased Polymer (B3PO) research and education network – with Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in a coordinating role – is working to develop polymers from lignin and other plant by-products, aiming to replace oil-based plastics. Funded within the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks programme, B3PO will be launched in January 2026. The European Commission is providing EUR 4.3 million in funding over four years. Funder European Commission
9-Oct-2025 Rediscovered seeds unite African community around the taste of home — and improve organic corn breeding University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the corn breeder knew he had stumbled on something special. He had gone looking for exotic germplasm that could improve yield or weed tolerance in his latest organic hybrids, but instead he found a connection to his past and his community. Funder National Institute of Food and Agriculture
8-Oct-2025 SwRI produces, evaluates sustainable aviation fuel made from e-fuel Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO — October 8, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute produced a batch of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through a refinery process that started with electrofuels or e-fuels made from carbon dioxide and green hydrogen. Using internal research funding, a multidisciplinary team produced and characterized the SAF, along with two other commercially available fuels, before collecting emissions and particulate data to support the aviation industry’s emissions goals.
