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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Jul-2025 08:10 ET (5-Jul-2025 12:10 GMT/UTC)

One single rule helps explain life from ocean depths to open savannas

Umea University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found a simple rule that seems to govern how life is organised on Earth. The researchers believe this rule helps explain why species are spread the way they are across the planet. The discovery will help to understand life on Earth – including how ecosystems respond to global environmental changes.

Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution

Symmetry breaking in meniscus splitting: effects of boundary conditions

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When a water-based polymer solution dries, the liquid surface splits in uneven, unpredictable ways—a phenomenon called symmetry breaking. Using a natural polymer in a controlled drying setting, researchers from JAIST, Japan, identified that the irregular patterns in symmetry breaking don’t just form by chance but follow hidden physical rules. This discovery offers new insight into how asymmetric patterns in nature form and could impact fields from material design to biological development.

Journal: Advanced Science
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Asahi Glass Foundation

Researchers use machine learning to improve gene therapy

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stanford’s Gao Lab is leveraging AI to optimize the efficacy and safety of targeted cell and gene therapies.

Journal: Cell Systems

Trends in county-level MMR vaccination coverage in children in the United States

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This county-level dataset complements the state and national-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, confirming a widespread decline in measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination rates in the U.S. after the COVID-19 pandemic while revealing significant heterogeneity in vaccination patterns within and across states. This dataset can be used in spatial and statistical analyses to identify factors associated with low or declining MMR rates in U.S. counties and help inform targeted vaccination strategies to reduce the risk of measles outbreaks.

Journal: JAMA

UT partners with Y-12 to establish national security prototype center

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Business Announcement

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages and operates the Y-12 National Security Complex for the National Nuclear Security Administration, signed an agreement May 30 to collaborate on initiatives that enhance national security.

Endophytic fungi from halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum enhance maize growth and salt tolerance

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team demonstrates the potential of root endophytic fungi (EF) from the halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum to improve salt tolerance and boost maize growth under saline conditions.

Journal: Tropical Plants

Genome breakthrough reveals secrets behind rapid growth and invasiveness of tropical vine Merremia boisiana

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has successfully assembled the first high-quality, chromosome-level genome of published findings reveal how specific genes and hormone regulatory networks drive the plant’s exceptional growth rate and stress tolerance, offering insights into its invasive nature, opening new avenues for sweet potato crop improvement.

Journal: Tropical Plants

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