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9-Oct-2025

Why is the brain versatile? Armenise-Harvard Foundation award 1 million dollars to study the adaptive abilities of the brain

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT
Grant and Award Announcement

The human brain is able to adapt to different situations, ensuring flexible and effective behavior. The biological mechanisms underlying this ability are the main research focus of neurobiologist Angelo Forli, who received the prestigious Career Development Grant from the Giovanni Armenise Harvard Foundation, worth 1 million dollars for a five-year project. Thanks to this funding, the researcher has left the United States to join the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), where he will establish his new lab, ‘Neural Networks for Natural Intelligence.

Funder: Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation

9-Oct-2025

Lifelong companionship protects aging rat brains from cognitive decline

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — October 9, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 9 of Aging-US on August 22, 2025, titled, “The impact of long-term social housing on biconditional association task performance and neuron ensembles in the anterior cingulate cortex and the hippocampal CA3 region of aged rats.”

Journal: Aging-US

9-Oct-2025

American Society of Human Genetics to hold 2025 Annual Meeting next week in Boston

American Society of Human Genetics
Meeting Announcement

Credible press are invited to join the American Society of Human Genetics in Boston for the ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting.

9-Oct-2025

Revolutionizing bioplastics: a microbial platform for fully bio-based long-chain polyesters

Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Published in Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, this study reports the first complete microbial route to produce fully bio-based long-chain polyester from renewable substrates. Using engineered Candida tropicalis and Escherichia coli, researchers achieved record monomer titers—150 g/L of 1,12-diacid and 68 g/L of 1,12-diol—later polymerized into bio-polyesters exhibiting thermal and molecular properties equivalent to petroleum analogs. Scalable to a 50 L pilot fermenter, this eco-friendly process marks a key advance toward a circular bioeconomy for sustainable plastics.

Journal: Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts

9-Oct-2025

China’s carbon market unification process accelerates, local pilots and national market collaborate towards globalization

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Professor Dai Chunyan from Chongqing Technology and Business University and Professor Michael Pollitt from the University of Cambridge have jointly published a study exploring the coordination mechanisms between China's national and local carbon markets in the context of global carbon pricing. They published their review in Energy and Climate Management on August 20, 2025.

Journal: Energy and Climate Management

9-Oct-2025

AMS science preview: global heat record false? Rainier storms

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

"Early online" research in journals of the American Meteorological Society discusses evidence that the world's hottest recorded temperature may be incorrect, an increase in intense rainfall worldwide, increasing expansion of fire weather, and the main cause of aviation accidents in Hawai‘i.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

9-Oct-2025

Scientists propose 4 new uses for old veggies

American Chemical Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Food waste is more than just the starting material for compost. From dried-up beet pulp to millipede-digested coconut fibers, scientists are finding treasure in our trash. Four recent papers published in ACS journals detail how food waste contains sustainable solutions for farming and new sources of bioactive compounds for pharmaceuticals.