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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Oct-2025 07:11 ET (26-Oct-2025 11:11 GMT/UTC)
Healing the helpers: UCF College of Medicine leader helping local law enforcement
UCF College of MedicineUCF's Dr. Marcy Verduin, associate dean of students and professor of psychiatry, helped create Always Ready for the Road Ahead, a two-part mental health guidance program she is providing to all 3,000 sworn and civilian employees of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Neuroscience researcher earns University of Cincinnati doctorate while teaching full-time
University of CincinnatiJulia Hoyda worked full-time as a science teacher for the last two years of her doctoral neuroscience program at the University of Cincinnati and says the combination of research and teaching has made her a better science communicator and fueled her passion to continue educating the next generation of scientists.
Extinction is forever, yet scientists offer hope to a tiny, endangered mountain frog
Southern Cross UniversitySchuman’s team controls tricky engines with neuromorphic network
University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleDo chatbots have a moral compass? Researchers turn to Reddit to find out.
University of California - BerkeleyTo reveal the hidden norms encoded in popular AI chatbots, UC Berkeley researchers turned to the internet’s favorite source of moral dilemmas: Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” (or AITA) forum. In a recent study, which is published as a pre-print, the researchers confronted each of seven different large language models (LLMs) with more than 10,000 real-world social conflicts posted to the forum and compared their responses to those of Reddit users.
Texas pecans near harvest in challenging season
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsTexas pecan growers are preparing for the 2025 harvest season with a crop outlook that reflects the state’s diversity in weather and geography, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Monte Nesbitt, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension pecan specialist and assistant professor in the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences, Bryan-College Station, forecast the state’s crop at 32 million pounds, a number that falls near the middle of Texas’ recent production history.
Texas’ all-time high pecan production was 91 million pounds in 1979, while the record low – 5 million pounds – occurred in 1951.
Local kids invited to see and explore construction trucks at UCSF
University of California - San FranciscoUCSF is hosting a family-friendly Touch-A-Truck fair at the new Parnassus Heights campus construction site on Saturday, giving local children a chance to take part in the project and see the big trucks up close. Kids will receive construction hard hats and be able to climb on the construction equipment used for the expansion.
UVic welcomes $5M boost to scale Indigenous priorities and reconciliation
University of VictoriaThe ISSCR releases report of first regulatory meeting with Japan’s PMDA and Korea’s MFDS
International Society for Stem Cell ResearchThe International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) convened its first-ever meeting with Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) and Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), marking a major milestone in the Society’s global regulatory advocacy efforts. The meeting took place on 7 November 2024. The dialogue brought together leaders from the ISSCR and regulatory authorities in Asia to discuss key considerations shaping the safe and effective development of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-based therapies. Discussions focused on the manufacture of PSC banks as starting materials for allogeneic therapies, the genetic assessment of PSCs, and jurisdictional differences in guidelines for biological ancillary materials.