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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Oct-2026 21:16 ET (21-Oct-2026 01:16 GMT/UTC)

Balancing safety and health: microbial dynamics in food systems

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Microorganisms, though invisible to the naked eye, play a fundamental role in the global food system. The research from Prof. Xia Xiaodong, Associate Professor of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, focuses on these “invisible players” and their dual roles in enhancing food quality and posing risks to human health. His work integrates food safety with gut microbiome science, aiming to balance the control of harmful pathogens with the utilisation of beneficial microbes.

Why UT Arlington is training nurses like athletes

University of Texas at Arlington

The Clinical Athlete Framework applies performance science principles to the physical and cognitive demands of clinical practice, helping future nurses develop the strength, endurance and resilience needed to succeed in one of healthcare’s most demanding professions.

25 years after 9/11, Rice research traces changing landscape of religious bias

Rice University

A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, religious bias in America has not disappeared, but the forces shaping it have changed.

Studying a new way to treat Type 1 diabetes

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Seven years ago, Johns Hopkins researchers and their collaborators announced they had found the X cell, a novel immune cell that plays a key role in the development of Type 1 diabetes. Today the team is taking its research further, leveraging years of federally supported discovery to explore how the X cell can be turned into an immune therapy that might one day reverse the progression of Type 1 diabetes shortly after diagnosis. Their latest findings, published by the Journal of Immunology in April, show that an antibody developed based on the X cell was able to target and eliminate immune cells involved in the autoimmune response. The work, while still in preclinical models, represents longstanding research partially supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Journal: The Journal of Immunology
Funder: W. M. Keck Foundation, Normal Raab Foundation, Breakthrough T1D Innovative Award, Maryland Innovation Initiative

Are we loving Yosemite to death?

Colorado State University

Yosemite National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors each year, but those visits come at a steep environmental cost. On this episode of Colorado State University's The Audit podcast, national parks historian Michael Childers discusses Yosemite's long history of overcrowding, the decision to end reservation systems and what the record-breaking crowds expected this season could mean for the future of all national parks.

Keeping elite women’s basketball players healthy during international competition

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

Two UCLA Health doctors are accompanying the 2026 USA Basketball Women’s National Team at the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup that began Sept. 4 in Berlin.

Smart farm operating system goes from lab to tractor

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

It is July, and Montana farmers are testing software from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on a tractor’s autosteer operating system. The software uses field data to tell a tractor where to travel for the most efficient drive path. Then, the tractor pulls a 90-foot-long agricultural sprayer that covers large swaths of a field with liquids such as fertilizers, herbicides and fungicides.

How a professor created a new science vocabulary for an Indian language

Dartmouth College

In a new paper, Dartmouth professor Siddhartha Jayanti lays out how he published the first computer science paper written in India's Telugu language—by painstakingly crafting a whole new technical vocabulary where none existed. He sees his work as a proof of concept toward building a scientific lexicon in advanced computer science that's accessible to Indians in their own languages.

Ateneo historian honored in Mexico, forges int’l academic cooperation

Ateneo de Manila University

Dr. Filomeno Aguilar spotlighted the shared history, culture, and scholarship between Mexico and the Philippines.

University of Tennessee team launches project to make hand prosthetics more intuitive

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers are developing Myo-Bridge, an implantable robotic device designed to link residual muscle motion with an external prosthetic hand. Supported by a National Science Foundation grant, the project aims to provide more natural control and sensory feedback, potentially improving independence and quality of life for people with upper-limb amputations.

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