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NSF awards $5M across three institutions to enhance data protection for users nationwide

San Diego State University
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at San Diego State University, Arizona State University and the University of Utah are developing a new cybersecurity infrastructure for secure private data sharing. The work is part of a new $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Over the next five years, the team will deploy and support a novel cyberinfrastructure called Prototype Architecture for Research Advances using Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PARAPET), that could be used in a range of fields that require data analysis, like healthcare, internet security, science, finance and the social sciences, to protect sensitive information such as medical records, financial information and census statistics.

Using privacy-enhancing technologies, PARAPET is designed to be a more secure way to share and collaborate on sensitive data, safeguard data at rest and during computation, and train AI models without exposing private data.

A prosthodontic digital guide for reproducing lip–instrument positioning for wind instruments

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A digitally fabricated guide, developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, captures and reproduces the spatial relationship between a musician’s lips and an air-reed instrument, such as a shakuhachi flute. By combining facial and intraoral scans using CAD and 3D printing, the team created a lightweight positioning guide based on an experienced player’s embouchure. The application demonstrates how digital prosthodontic workflows could provide physical spatial references for musical training and other extraoral applications.

Journal: Journal of Prosthodontic Research
Funder: Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts Matching Fund

The anthropological dimensions of sari-sari stores as liminal community pharmacies

Ateneo de Manila University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ateneo de Manila University study finds sari-sari stores quietly fill medicine-access gaps in remote communities, while exposing the limits of informal care.

Journal: Acta Medica Philippina

Social media spreading misleading claims about Alzheimer’s blood tests, study finds

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than a third of social media posts suggested Alzheimer’s blood tests could screen healthy people without symptoms, conflicting with current recommendations. Accounts with explicit financial interests were more than three times as likely to promote testing for asymptomatic people.

Journal: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Henry VIII’s dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscript – its lost pages have just been rediscovered

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sir John Gage, a key figure in Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, saved a dangerous Catholic book from likely destruction, a new study suggests. The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestseller – illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformation – as belonging to Gage, exposes the split loyalties of one of Tudor England’s great survivors.

Journal: Notes and Queries

Genetic risk for PTSD may vary depending on the type of trauma experienced, data from more than 140,000 individuals suggests

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A groundbreaking study reveals that your genes may make you more vulnerable to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from certain types of trauma—particularly childhood neglect—than from others.

Journal: European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Funder: UK Research and Innovation

Rich neighborhoods more likely to burn

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Frequently located on hillsides and in canyons surrounded by wildlands, one of the most comprehensive studies to date shows rich neighborhoods are more likely to catch fire. However, they are also likely to recover faster than lower-income areas.

Journal: npj Urban Sustainability

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