The new study, just published in leading international journal Science Advances, outlines that researchers have developed a “speech clock” that can estimate a person’s chronological age from hundreds of acoustic and linguistic characteristics of their speech. The difference between a person’s actual age and their speech-predicted age (called the speech age gap) was also associated with multiple independent markers of biological aging, brain health, cognition, social adversity, and dementia.

A new review of research from across sub-Saharan Africa found that inadequate access to food is linked to depression, suicide attempts, HIV vulnerabilities, and poorer sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescent mothers.

BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Kandice Tanner, of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, has been named recipients of the 2027 Michael and Kate Bárány Award. Tanner will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.

BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Lauren L. Porter, of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA, has been named the recipient of the 2027 Early Career Award. Porter will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.

BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Joseph D. (Jody) Puglisi, of Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, will receive the 2027 Ignacio Tinoco Award in Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules. Puglisi will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.

BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that William A. Eaton, of the National Institute Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA, has been named the recipient of the 2027 BPS Award in the Biophysics of Health and Disease. Eaton will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.