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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Sep-2025 21:11 ET (11-Sep-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

11-Aug-2025

After the storm: to rebuild or relocate?

Society for Risk Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As climate hazards escalate, communities facing repetitive disasters in high-risk areas must weigh the economic and social trade-offs of rebuilding versus relocating. A Risk Analysis study has found that residents and government officials may have different ideas about how public funds should be spent to adapt to extreme weather events brought on by climate change.

Journal: Risk Analysis

11-Aug-2025

How parental leave affects the wages of PhD graduates

University of Würzburg

How does parental leave affect the income of mothers and fathers with PhDs? A research team at the University of Würzburg investigated this question in cooperation with the German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies.

Journal: Journal of Marriage and Family

11-Aug-2025

Is writing with AI at work undermining your credibility?

University of Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using too much AI in writing hurts the trust between managers and employees.

Journal: International Journal of Business Communication

11-Aug-2025

Parental incomes drop if their child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

Uppsala University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Parents of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes suffer an income drop in the years following the diagnosis. The impact is more pronounced in mothers, especially mothers of children diagnosed in preschool years. These novel findings from a study led by researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, have now been published in Diabetologia, the Journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Journal: Diabetologia
Funder: FORTE, Barndiabetesfonden, Diabetesfonden, Familjen Ernfors Stiftelse

11-Aug-2025

Stalking, obtaining restraining order linked with increased cardiovascular disease risk in women

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women with experience being stalked and/or who have experience obtaining a restraining order were significantly more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) than women without these experiences, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Journal: Circulation
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, NIH/National Institute on Aging, Broad Institute

11-Aug-2025

Conditional cash transfers significantly reduce AIDS incidence and mortality among brazil’s most vulnerable women

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's largest conditional cash transfer programme, the Bolsa Família Programme (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women with lower income and limited education.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Data Integration and Knowledge in Health, Collective Health Institute (Federal University of 641 Bahia, Salvador, Brazil), Medical Research Council, Ministerio de Ciencia, Generalitat de Catalunya

11-Aug-2025

A hybrid photonic-terahertz chip for communications and sensing

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at EPFL and Harvard University have engineered a chip that can convert between electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz and optical ranges on the same device. Their integrated design could enable the development of devices for ultrafast telecommunications, ranging, spectroscopy, and computing.

Journal: Nature Communications