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1-Jul-2025

Experts say seafood deregulation could impact sustainability and supply

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists writing in a new paper published in the journal Marine Policy. Rather than strengthening the industry, they argue, the policy threatens the very systems that support sustainable seafood.

Journal: Marine Policy

1-Jul-2025

Displays, imaging and sensing: New blue fluorophore breaks efficiency records in both solids and solutions

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new blue fluorescent molecule set new top emission efficiencies in both solid and liquid states, according to a University of Michigan-led study that could pave the way for applications in technology and medicine.

Journal: Nature Communications

1-Jul-2025

NASA missions help explain, predict severity of solar storms

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise.

Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar material — toward Earth. But the CME wasn’t especially fast or massive, suggesting the storm would be minor. But it became severe.

Using NASA heliophysics missions, new studies of this storm and others are helping scientists learn why some CMEs have more intense effects — and better predict the impacts of future solar eruptions on our lives.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal

1-Jul-2025

Food waste: Recycling, not discarding, offers huge environmental benefits

University of Pennsylvania

Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators examine how common food waste recycling methods, including composting, could have a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and the sparing of natural resources such as land and water. Food loss and waste, in particular, are “a big deal,” says Zhengxia Dou. They account for almost a third of the food produced for human consumption.

Journal: Nature Food
Funder: National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Major Science and Technology Projects in Yunnan Province, Major Science and Technology of Shandong Province, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Major Science and Technology Project of Shandong Province, National Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China

1-Jul-2025

This puzzle game shows kids how they’re smarter than AI

University of Washington
Reports and Proceedings

University of Washington researchers developed the game AI Puzzlers to show kids an area where AI systems still typically and blatantly fail: solving certain reasoning puzzles. In the game, users get a chance to solve puzzles by completing patterns of colored blocks. They can then ask various AI chatbots to solve and have the systems explain their solutions — which they nearly always fail to do accurately.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, Jacobs Foundation

1-Jul-2025

NYU Tandon engineers create first immunocompetent leukemia device for CAR T immunotherapy screening

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a microscope slide-sized "leukemia-on-a-chip," the first laboratory device to successfully combine both the physical structure of bone marrow and a functioning human immune system, an advance that could dramatically accelerate new immunotherapy development.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering

1-Jul-2025

Environmental science is worth £3.3 billion to UK offshore wind

UK Research and Innovation
Reports and Proceedings

Public investment in environmental science has helped power the rise of the UK’s offshore wind energy sector, while protecting marine species and habitats.

Offshore wind is an engine of growth for coastal regions and a key growth sector in the government’s industrial strategy.

As of the end of 2024 the UK had 45 operational offshore wind farms. These farms provide 17% of total UK electricity and support 32,000 jobs across the UK, predicted to grow to 100,000 by 2030.

A new study has found that long-term Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding delivered through our research centres has been an important factor in the development of the UK’s offshore wind industry.

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council