2-Dec-2025 Vaccinated teens face lower risk of long COVID, study suggests Mass General Brigham Mass General Brigham researchers found that the risk of long COVID was 36% lower in vaccinated participants compared to never-vaccinated participants. This was based on our analysis of the 1,231 adolescents included in a matched cohort (507 unvaccinated and 724 vaccinated). The findings were similar after adjusting for caregiver education level, COVID variant and residence in a medically underserved area, all of which were potential confounders in the study. Journal Vaccine
2-Dec-2025 Nobel Prize-winning metal-organic frameworks are the jungle gyms of chemistry University of California - San Diego Metal-organic frameworks hold great promise: extracting water from air, degrading toxic chemicals and even capturing air pollution. They are so fantastic, their development won this year's Nobel Prize. UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry Seth Cohen answers everyone's burning question: what are they exactly?
2-Dec-2025 From fireflies to medical treatments: CU Denver’s Chemistry Nanomedicine Lab turns bright ideas into life saving solutions University of Colorado Denver A small university lab Colorado is doing big work: developing a “Surgical GPS” to guide cancer removal, engineering a therapeutic contact lens to prevent blindness, and creating a rapid-diagnostic device to detect sepsis. Funder NIH/National Institutes of Health
2-Dec-2025 Trying to move more? Expert explains the benefits of counting steps Mayo Clinic You may have heard about the health benefits of tracking your steps. But what is the right number of steps? Are some types of stepping better for you than others? Mackenzie Long, a personal trainer in physical therapy and sports medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin, explains.
2-Dec-2025 Modeling the marine carbon cycle University of Oldenburg Sinikka Lennartz, a junior professor of biogeochemical ocean modelling at the University of Oldenburg in northern Germany, has won several prestigious awards this year. She specialises in the marine carbon cycle. In recent years, she has made significant progress in understanding and quantifying two processes by which the ocean affects the climate system that have not been widely researched. Journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles Funder Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
1-Dec-2025 Cal Poly kinesiology and public health professor advocates for cross-cultural learning California Polytechnic State University Cal Poly Kinesiology and Public Health Department Professor Joni Roberts shares her thoughts on differences between learning in California and Africa. Roberts is spending the year in Malawi, Africa on a Fulbright Program fellowship. In her Ed Source article titled "What California’s college students can learn from foreign countries’ educational cultures" she writes: "Structure is cultural. When we impose our rhythms abroad, we risk missing the deeper experience of connection and reciprocity that global learning can offer."
1-Dec-2025 'Periodic table' for AI methods aims to drive innovation Emory University Physicists develop a new framework for deriving algorithms for AI systems. Journal Journal of Machine Learning
1-Dec-2025 Dress to impress: Nubian royal outfits showcased in London SWPS University A live presentation of re-created costumes of Nubian kings, royal mothers, and bishop based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras will take place on December 9 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Meeting Dress to impress. Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia
1-Dec-2025 JMIR Publications’ News & Perspectives unveils future of patient care: Smart implants transforming surgery and beyond JMIR Publications JMIR Publications continues to provide forward-looking insights in its "News & Perspectives" section with a new article exploring the evolution and potential of smart implants in health care. Journal Journal of Medical Internet Research
1-Dec-2025 Under the lens: Dr. Callum Cooper explores how bacteriophages could revolutionize medicine - and how we get to that point Applied Microbiology International In a compelling new video interview from Applied Microbiology International’s ‘Under the Lens’ series, Dr. Callum Cooper, a researcher in bacterial phage formulation and Deputy Editor of Letters in Applied Microbiology, an AMI publication, shared fascinating insights into one of medicine’s most promising frontiers: phage therapy.
