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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Aug-2025 15:11 ET (14-Aug-2025 19:11 GMT/UTC)

23-Jul-2025

Study finds that listening to snapping shrimp is an effective tool to monitor coral reef health

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Underwater monitoring of high-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp can be an effective and inexpensive way to monitor coral reef health.

Journal: Royal Society Open Science
Funder: King Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation, University of Liège ‘financement mission scientifique’

23-Jul-2025

The biology of uncontrolled aggression: How does early-life trauma shape brain circuit function?

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

Sora Shin, a neuroscientist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how early-life trauma alters brain circuits that control aggression and attention. Her research could lead to novel treatment strategies to ease the burden of trauma-related aggression on individuals, families, and communities.

23-Jul-2025

Cracking the code to trying vegan eggs

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As the demand for plant-based meat and dairy options grows, vegan burgers, nuggets, and beverages have been in the spotlight for sustainable protein alternatives. But unlike their meatless burger counterparts, plant-based eggs haven’t received the same attention from researchers — until now.

Journal: Foods

23-Jul-2025

VCU-led global research team uses AI to improve prediction of death risk for hospitalized cirrhosis patients

Virginia Commonwealth University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The machine-learning model outscores older methods and is being made available worldwide.

Journal: Gastroenterology

23-Jul-2025

Gender disparities in Italian medical academia have persisted or worsened since 2014, with a continued "leaky pipeline" of women not progressing to senior roles

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gender disparities in Italian medical academia have persisted or worsened since 2014, with a continued "leaky pipeline" of women not progressing to senior roles

Journal: PLOS One

23-Jul-2025

Teen smokers and vapers have higher rates of depression and anxiety, study finds

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Adolescents who use either e-cigarettes or conventional tobacco products (CTP)—like cigarettes, cigars, hookah and pipes—are significantly more likely to report symptoms of depression and anxiety than teens who don’t use tobacco products at all, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health by Noor Abdulhay of West Virginia University, USA, and colleagues.

23-Jul-2025

Immunity to seasonal flu protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans historically has been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak — which has caused massive die-offs in wild birds, farmed poultry and even wild mammals — causing mostly mild symptoms in the people it has infected? New research, led by scientists at Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh and published today (July 23) in the journal Science Translational Medicine, indicates that immunity to a seasonal influenza virus known as pandemic H1N1 that began circulating in 2009, provides protection from severe illness from H5N1 in a laboratory animal model.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine