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17-Dec-2024

Parents’ childhood predicts future financial support for children’s education

Parents who endured difficult childhoods provided less financial support to their children’s education such as college tuition compared to parents who experienced few or no disadvantages, according to a new study from a researcher from Penn State. Regardless of current socioeconomic status, the parents who had more disadvantages in their childhoods gave their children $2,200 less, on average.

Journal: Journal of Marriage and Family
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging

17-Dec-2024

Young English speakers are most comfortable with digital health

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Digital health tools, such as patient portals, treatment apps and online appointment schedulers, are increasingly common. But not everyone is equally at home using them.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

17-Dec-2024

Fraunhofer IAF expands technology capabilities for chiplet innovations within the APECS pilot line

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics
Grant and Award Announcement

Fraunhofer IAF is expanding its technological capabilities in the field of III-V compound semiconductors, making a valuable contribution to the development of the APECS pilot line within the framework of the EU Chips Act. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism is contributing 4.35 million euros to the funding. On 16 December 2024, State Secretary for Economic Affairs Dr. Patrick Rapp symbolically handed over a cheque for the funding amount to the institute’s directors. APECS will make it possible to further expand the research and development infrastructure across Europe over the next 4.5 years. The substantial total funding amounts to 730 million euros, provided by Chips Joint Undertaking, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and other funding.

Funder: Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Chips Joint Undertaking

17-Dec-2024

NIH study finds no significant link between time spent in childcare and young children's mental health, even amid early adversity

Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sending children to childcare outside the home may not significantly affect children’s mental health, according to a new study funded by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program at the National Institutes of Health.

Journal: Development and Psychopathology

17-Dec-2024

New discovery by Mizzou scientists redefines magnetism

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination — the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You’ve arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of reality, building properties and phenomena that challenge everything we thought we knew — until now.

At the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Science, researchers Deepak Singh and Carsten Ullrich, alongside their teams of brilliant students and postdoctoral fellows, have unlocked a stunning discovery on this invisible frontier: a brand-new type of quasiparticle in all magnetic materials, no matter their strength or temperature. This groundbreaking find flips the script on magnetism, revealing it to be more dynamic than scientists once believed.

Journal: Physical Review Research

17-Dec-2024

Dogs can recognize familiar speakers

Eötvös Loránd University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at ELTE Department of Ethology, Hungary designed an experiment to investigate whether dogs can recognize their owners based on pre-recorded speech. The results provided the first evidence that dogs are capable of voice-based individual-level recognition of humans. The study was published in Animal Behaviour.

Journal: Animal Behaviour

17-Dec-2024

WVU engineer protects mining equipment operators from fatal accidents with high-tech training headsets that visualize blind spots

West Virginia University
Grant and Award Announcement

To keep miners safe, a West Virginia University researcher is creating a training program that uses augmented reality headsets to prepare workers to operate around high-risk vehicles.

Funder: U.S. Department of Labor