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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Dec-2025 15:11 ET (19-Dec-2025 20:11 GMT/UTC)
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.
The new Polarstern features a high-tech heart
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine ResearchThe centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August, TKMS, Wärtsilä, Steerprop and Aker Arctic had inked the contracts for the entire propulsion unit: rudder propellers, engines and exhaust gas aftertreatment system. Many of the components are genuine market innovations with which the Alfred Wegener Institute and TKMS are setting new standards in research navigation.
University of Cincinnati researchers working to make blood cancer a chronic disease
University of CincinnatiKERI develops tailored pulsed power modulator for bias in semiconductor processing
National Research Council of Science & TechnologyA research team led by Dr. Jang Sung-roc at the Electrophysics Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a ‘tailored pulsed power modulator for bias’, which can be applied in ultra-precision semiconductor processing.
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American Phytopathological SocietyOne life lost to sepsis every three seconds | World Sepsis Day
BGI GenomicsEvery three seconds, one life is lost to sepsis, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance. It is a life-threatening, dysregulated immune response to infection and remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Most of these deaths are preventable with timely intervention.
Conventional culturing diagnostic methods are often slow and imprecise. The advancement of metagenomic and targeted next-generation sequencing (mNGS and tNGS) now provides rapid precision diagnostics, enabling earlier treatment.