Policy & Ethics
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Aug-2025 08:11 ET (25-Aug-2025 12:11 GMT/UTC)
5-Mar-2025
Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPeer-Reviewed Publication
An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.
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- Nature
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, NASA Headquarters
5-Mar-2025
Secure your future and maximize impact: Free webinar on charitable giving strategies
American Heart AssociationMeeting Announcement
American Heart Association webinar explores philanthropic giving and offers legacy planning tools.
5-Mar-2025
LehighU professors to host symposium seeking to enhance the reliability, inclusivity, and ethical impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Lehigh UniversityMeeting Announcement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform healthcare, but its successful integration into healthcare requires careful consideration of regulatory frameworks, governance structures, data equity, and privacy protections. To help their academic community coalesce around this challenge, a team comprised of researchers from Lehigh University, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine are gathering researchers, clinicians, and industry experts in this space as part of the 2025 Spring Symposium Series sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI.) The team's "Leveraging AI to Revolutionize Healthcare" symposium will be a key portion of the 2025 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, set for Monday, March 31 through Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, California.
5-Mar-2025
Whole Health Consortium at Virginia Tech funds teams to tackle community health challenges
Virginia TechGrant and Award Announcement
Five multidisciplinary teams received seed grants to develop community-informed solutions for better health.
5-Mar-2025
Toxic environmental pollutants linked to faster aging and health risks in US adults
Impact Journals LLCPeer-Reviewed Publication
BUFFALO, NY — March 5, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on February 11, 2025, Volume 17, Issue 2, titled “Exposome-wide association study of environmental chemical exposures and epigenetic aging in the national health and nutrition examination survey.”
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- Aging-US
5-Mar-2025
Highly radioactive nuclear waste – how to keep it from oblivion
Linköping UniversityReports and Proceedings
Sweden’s radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that it is there? Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have come up with a proposal for how to keep the memory alive over generations.
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- Svensk Kärnbränslehantering