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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Jul-2025 22:11 ET (30-Jul-2025 02:11 GMT/UTC)

29-Jul-2025

University of Houston psychology researchers help improve space city weather’s flood forecast scale

Space City Weather, a trusted source for the Gulf Coast, has published a new version of the Space City Weather Flood Scale with help from two psychologists at the University of Houston who examined what kind of language would be more user friendly and helpful in the time of a storm.

29-Jul-2025

Hotel2Hospital: An extreme makeover shows how a patient surge could be handled in a crisis

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

A project led by the CU Department of Emergency Medicine turns a conference hotel into a hospital. ‘This could save countless lives during a crisis,’ a project leader says.

29-Jul-2025

Pioneering interdisciplinary research drives innovation in optics and photonics

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) scholars harness the University’s multidisciplinary strengths to specialise in research on material synthesis, characterisation, and device fabrication for applications in lasers, photosensors and photothermal technologies. With a focus on synthesizing, processing and characterizing low-dimensional materials, the research led by Prof. Yuen Hong TSANG, Professor of the Department of Applied Physics and his team drives impactful applications across various fields of optics and photonics.

29-Jul-2025

Clinical trials use precision medicine to test treatments for severe asthma

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Asthma severity can be affected by multiple inflammatory pathways, which make it challenging to treat with a “one size fits all” approach. This is why researchers started pursuing precision medicine for asthma – distinguishing disease types based on specific biological signs (called biomarkers) and matching treatments to the patient’s asthma type.

29-Jul-2025

New tool using AI for heart failure incorporates views of patients, clinicians and other stakeholders in three different continents

European Society of Cardiology

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Personalised Risk Assessment, or AI4HF, is a 4-year project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework

AI4HF aims to co-design, develop and evaluate the first trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) tool for personalising the care and management of patients with heart failure.

The project brings together patients, clinicians and other stakeholders from Europe, South America and Africa with regular workshops to allow input from all

The workshops have produced many ideas for refining AI for heart failure treatment, including increasing health and digital literacy, personalised recommendations on improving lifestyle, and social components such as involvement of carers. A new round of workshops is ongoing

29-Jul-2025

University of Colorado Cancer Center: 40 Years of preventing and conquering cancer

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

From humble beginnings, the University of Colorado Cancer Center has grown into a leading center for research, clinical care, education, and outreach.

29-Jul-2025

Surviving and thriving: A ‘warrior queen’ with metastatic breast cancer takes charge of her life

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Nediva Monroe thought she had her cancer battle won. Then it became a war, with a leading CU Cancer Center expert fighting by her side.

29-Jul-2025

Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice researchers lead biodiversity study in Tanzania

Rice University

Deep in the heart of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, a trio of Rice University researchers, including ecophysiologist Andrea Rummel, graduate student Annie Finneran and junior Caroline Pollan, embarked on an ambitious summer field study to understand how human impacts are reshaping forest ecosystems. Armed with bat detectors, camera traps, soil sampling kits and a passion for ecological discovery, they worked alongside Tanzanian scientists to track the interplay between biodiversity, conservation and nutrient cycling in one of Africa’s most biologically rich yet vulnerable landscap

29-Jul-2025

MARVEL milestone: Microreactor project completes coolant system testing

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

In the spring of 2020, a team of engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) embarked on a groundbreaking project to design a microreactor test facility that could transform the world’s energy future.

29-Jul-2025

Wildfire research using technology at every turn

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus

Researchers and students are developing tools to help communities anticipate and respond to wildfires—before the flames arrive. From 5G-enabled smoke detection networks to AI-driven hazard monitoring on our own campus, their work is shaping a fire-ready future.