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11-Jun-2026

Remote monitoring alone fails to reduce readmissions for sepsis, trial finds

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Remote monitoring isn’t a panacea for reducing readmissions across all conditions — and for some patients, clinicians should proceed with caution, clinical trial results published today in JAMA Network Open suggest.

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Meeting: Critical Care Reviews Annual Meeting

11-Jun-2026

Firms with independent board members are more willing to challenge risky CEO pay structures, says new research

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Independent directors may be far more effective at controlling executive pay than critics claim, according to new research from the University of Surrey. Researchers found that companies with more independent board members move faster to correct risky CEO compensation structures.

Journal: European Financial Management

11-Jun-2026

Diffusion in a heterogeneous medium – or how voting preferences can be described in terms of physics

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A drop of dye added to a glass of water undergoes ordinary diffusion. However, when placed on the surface of a foam, the dye spreads differently – diffusion becomes anomalous. An example of this is the pattern on the froth of a cup of cappuccino. Interestingly, the latest research suggests that diffusion equations in a heterogeneous environment can also describe social phenomena, such as election results or the behaviour of stock market traders.

Journal: Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Funder: Poland National Science Centre, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, German Science Foundation, Alliance of International Science Organizations, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

10-Jun-2026

New Brookings study: ICE surges have triggered massive job losses—including among Americans

Brookings Institution
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the Brookings Institution has found that ICE surges are causing significant job losses in cities where ICE is most active. In the first nine months of 2025, ICE operations led directly to the loss of at least 668,000 jobs across 86 U.S. metro areas. The toll was not limited to immigrants: between 51,000 and 297,000 of the lost jobs were held by American-born workers.

10-Jun-2026

Annual global migration has nearly tripled since 2000

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Global migration has risen sharply from approximately 13 million people per year in 2000 to around 35 million people per year in 2023. This is according to a new dataset on human migration published in Nature by researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), IIASA, and the University of Hong Kong.

Journal: Nature

10-Jun-2026

The 25-year evolution of lithium as a disease-modifying agent in dementia

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: The convergent data in this study support a prospective clinical trial of low-dose lithium orotate to slow disease progression in mild cognitive impairment. Such an approach would prioritize established neuroprotective mechanisms while potentially mitigating the kidney and thyroid risks associated with higher-dose carbonate formulations. If low-dose lithium can indeed meaningfully alter disease trajectory, it would represent a much-needed, accessible, and inexpensive treatment that may be especially relevant in low- and middle-income countries.

Journal: JAMA Psychiatry

9-Jun-2026

When global warming becomes malnutrition: New study links climate change, childhood stunting and local inequality

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Millions of children under age five worldwide suffer from childhood stunting. A critical marker of chronic undernutrition, stunting represents a lifelong constraint on human potential, carrying a heightened risk of mortality, chronic disease, impaired cognitive development and reduced economic opportunity. A new study from the University of Notre Dame reveals that human-caused climate change is actively worsening this public health crisis, acting alongside structural socioeconomic disparities that already challenge the next generation’s ability to thrive.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, University of Notre Dame, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Center for Global Health Equity, University of Michigan

9-Jun-2026

Cultural backgrounds shape financial forecasts

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

On Wall Street, analysts with short-term or long-term orientations may issue different financial forecasts for the same company, says Yong Yu, professor of accounting at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

In new research with Shuping Chen, professor of accounting at Texas McCombs, Yu finds those differences are partly cultural, depending on analysts’ cultures of origin. Analysts whose inferred ancestral cultures place greater emphasis on long-term orientation make more and better long-term earnings predictions. Their stock picks average 0.30% higher monthly returns than those of analysts from less long-term-oriented cultural backgrounds.

Journal: Contemporary Accounting Research

9-Jun-2026

Hsiao earns NSF CAREER Award for work in nanoscale manufacturing

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Kaiwen Hsiao received the National Science Foundation’s highest honor for early-career faculty through her pioneering mission to print structures smaller than the wavelength of light itself.