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18-Nov-2025

Diabetes drives irreversible organ damage in 500 million adults worldwide

Diabetes is not just about elevated blood glucose levels. It is a chronic condition capable of inflicting slow, irreversible harm throughout the body.Lifestyle plays a major role in diabetes development, yet genetics also matters. Today, advanced genetic sequencing technologies such as Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) offer a clearer window into inherited risk long before symptoms appear. For individuals with a family history, this insight supports earlier lifestyle changes, more frequent monitoring, and more personalised prevention strategies.

18-Nov-2025

The ups and downs of space research

Texas A&M University

Microgravity experienced during spaceflight poses potential health risks to astronauts’ cardiovascular systems. Determining how to mitigate these health risks is challenging, as countermeasures are tested in Earth’s gravity. But what if there was a way to perform research in microgravity, without leaving the atmosphere? Researchers from Texas A&M University are participating in parabolic flights operated by Novespace in Bordeaux, France. These flights create brief periods of microgravity through a series of parabolic climb and descent maneuvers.

18-Nov-2025

Cornell student’s AI research makes assistive communication technologies more personal — and more playful

Cornell University

At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak — now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he's using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate.

18-Nov-2025

Europe’s hidden power: Turning waste heat into profit

European Science Communication Institute gGmbH

Europe’s industries waste massive amounts of energy like heat. The iWAYS project created the Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser (HPCE) to capture this waste and reuse it. Tested in factories across Europe, it cuts emissions, saves water, and reduces energy costs while keeping production running smoothly.

Funder: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

18-Nov-2025

Built by science for science

University of Texas at Austin

Horizon, the largest U.S. open-science supercomputer arriving in 2026, is being designed around the Characteristic Science Applications program: 11 cutting-edge software projects tackling the scientific challenges that will define the facility’s future.

Journal: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

18-Nov-2025

Keeping kale cool with a new variety: Unicorn

Cornell University

ITHACA, N.Y. - Years in the making, it’s finally here. Unicorn kale.

Masterminded by Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University, unicorn kale is full speed ahead: In Johnny’s Selected Seed catalog for 2026, unicorn kale is listed in three locations in the catalog: as a full-size kale and for premium baby leaf and micro-kale growing.

18-Nov-2025

University of Cincinnati medical students help shape new interdisciplinary training pathways

University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine is launching the new Interdisciplinary Medical Pathways Across Training (IMPAcT) program this academic year with two initial tracks: Humanities and Arts in Medicine and Healthy Communities.

18-Nov-2025

Overtraining: Expert explains warning signs that your body sends

Mayo Clinic

hen you're training for a race, it is tempting to go to extremes. But that makes this a prime time to watch for warning signs of overtraining, advises Corey Wencl, who supervises athletic training services in sports medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse.

18-Nov-2025

Rice establishes Amyloid Research Center to tackle neurodegenerative diseases

Rice University

Rice University Nov. 18 launched the Amyloid Mechanism and Disease Center, a new campus hub dedicated to uncovering the molecular origins of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other amyloid-related diseases.

17-Nov-2025

COP30, Dasgupta (CMCC): Global Goal on Adaptation, the new frontier of adaptation policies between science and finance

CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

COP30: Adaptation is one of the key words with part of the negotiations revolving around measuring progress and the role of climate finance in future developments.

“The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) is meant to serve as a unifying framework to drive political action and finance for adaptation on the same scale as mitigation,” says Shouro Dasgupta, CMCC researcher, member of the scientific support team for the Burkina Faso delegation at COP30, and one of the international experts working under the UAE–Belém work programme to develop and refine indicators that measure progress towards the GGA.