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9-Jan-2025

AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston: Feb. 13-15 (Free Reg. for Press/PIOs)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Meeting Announcement

There is just over a month left to register for the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. from Feb. 13 – 15. Eligible journalists, public information officers, and journalism professors and students can attend for free.

9-Jan-2025

A Sustainable Development Goal for space?

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18^th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space junk in Earth’s orbit. They believe a new SDG18 could draw direct inspiration from one of the existing goals – SDG14: Life Below Water – with lessons learned in marine debris management being used to prevent another planetary crisis before it is too late.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: National Geographic Society

9-Jan-2025

Researchers achieve real-time detection of low gas concentrations

Optica
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a new method for quickly detecting and identifying very low concentrations of gases, which , could form the basis for highly sensitive real-time sensors for applications such as environmental monitoring, breath analysis and chemical process control.

Journal: Optica

9-Jan-2025

Bridging oceans: A US-Japan approach to flood risk and climate resilience

Florida Atlantic University
Grant and Award Announcement

A joint U.S.-Japan project funded by the NSF and JST, involving researchers from FAU, Lehigh University, and Japanese institutions like Kyoto University, aims to develop a human-centered flood risk management framework. Supported by a $1 million grant, the three-year project focuses on integrating natural conditions, public perceptions, policies, and the impacts of flooding on vulnerable groups such as low-income, minority, disabled, and elderly populations.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency

9-Jan-2025

A fungus to save plants?

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute -
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The soil fungus Mortierella alpina has the potential to make agriculture greener and more sustainable: The fungus produces bioactive molecules called malpinins, which could protect plants from destructive worms. A research team from Jena has now been able to understand and describe their mode of action for the first time. The study was published in the renowned Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society

9-Jan-2025

Science educator calls for climate change to be taught more in US schools

Taylor & Francis Group
Book Announcement

Given that today’s children will inherit the consequences of climate change, schools are instrumental in mobilizing a global response to the climate crisis, a science educator argues.

9-Jan-2025

States struggle to curb food waste despite policies

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Current state policies aren't enough to curb food waste. Study shows states are falling short of the reduction goals set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Journal: Nature Food
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA National Institute of Food And Agriculture