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17-Jun-2025

Research provides insight into how multifocal contacts help fight myopia

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

 

A University of Houston optometry professor, who has pioneered the method of wearing multifocal lenses to slow myopia, is now reporting the biological changes associated with slowing eye growth when wearing multifocal lenses.  

Journal

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

17-Jun-2025

Fire and agriculture drive soil degradation in the southern Brazilian Amazon

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study shows that carbon and nitrogen losses from the soil persist for nearly a decade after burning, and conversion to agriculture causes even more severe impacts.

Journal

CATENA

Funder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

17-Jun-2025

AI perceived more negatively than climate science or science in general

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Driven by worries that the development and use of AI might have unintended consequences, the public's attitudes toward AI science are more negative than those toward general and climate science, researchers affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center found. 

Journal

PNAS Nexus

17-Jun-2025

Living near harmful algal blooms reduces life expectancy with ALS

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Living close to cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms — which are present nationwide but are more common in coastal and Great Lake states — heightens the rate of dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a study suggests.

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

17-Jun-2025

Negative perception of scientists working on AI

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A public survey indicates that Americans have negative opinions of scientists who work on AI. 

Journal

PNAS Nexus

17-Jun-2025

Using AI to find persuasive public health messages and automate real-time campaigns

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

AI can help public health agencies in the quest to end HIV. 

Journal

PNAS Nexus

17-Jun-2025

A revolution for R&D with the missing link of machine learning — project envisions human-AI expert teams to solve grand challenges

Aalto University
Grant and Award Announcement

Director of ELLIS Institute Finland, prof. Samuel Kaski, receives ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 M€ to develop new machine learning that is robust, generalizable and engages human experts.