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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Sep-2025 23:11 ET (20-Sep-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)
Institute for Child Development celebrates 50 years of shaping autism research and care
Binghamton UniversityTurning music into care for Alzheimer’s patients
University of Texas at ArlingtonInspired by her upbringing in South Korea, where caring for older adults is inherent to the culture, Kathy Siepker is channeling a personal connection into her research at The University of Texas at Arlington.
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University of BarcelonaTexas A&M AgriLife pilots national model for information technology access
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsResearchers at universities requiring advanced information technology expertise could soon gain new opportunities to access comprehensive, affordable solutions, thanks to a pilot initiative led by Texas A&M AgriLife Center for Managed Technology Services.
The Center for Managed Technology Services, a part of Texas A&M AgriLife Information Technology, has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Quanta series marvels at ‘the achievement of climate science’
Simons FoundationAI, molecular simulations get to the root of better plants
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ETRI leads standardization for ‘Cultural Heritage Digital Sovereignty’
National Research Council of Science & TechnologyElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has been conducting digital standardization research and development since 2020 in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea, Korea National University of Cultural Heritage, Chung-Ang University, LiST Co., Ltd., and the Technology Research Institute for Culture & Heritage to secure technological sovereignty in the digital field of cultural heritage in the era of AI.
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Texas A&M expands scientific access to biodiversity data
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsThe Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping lead a national effort to transform how scientists access and use biodiversity data by digitizing tens of thousands of mammal specimens from its Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections.
The work is part of the Ranges Digitization Network, a consortium of 23 natural history collections across the U.S. dedicated to digitizing, standardizing and sharing trait data for terrestrial mammals.
The fly detective: Tomberlin’s rise in forensic entomology
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsLong before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV watching detective shows.
There have been countless television shows dedicated to detectives who use forensic science to solve crimes. For Tomberlin, it was “Quincy, M.E.” – a forensic pathologist who always caught clues that police detectives missed, that sparked his interest and imagination.