A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is being overlooked in official 'impact' assessments. The research analysed 200 examples of how academics encourage the uptake of their research on social media. It suggests the 'impact' measurements used to inform last week’s results from the ‘Research Excellence Framework’ – the official system for assessing research in the UK - require an update, because academics are now much more socially networked than they were when the system was devised.

In a recent study, Herman found that in the midst of traumatic societal events – such as a neighborhood shooting – positive classroom behavior management interventions may not have the desired outcomes for certain individuals who could be struggling with trauma or depression associated with such an event.

A $56 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will establish an Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center for Pathogens of Pandemic Concern at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The center, a partnership between UTMB and global health care company Novartis, will focus on coronaviruses, flavivirus and henipavirus, three major classes of viruses with pandemic potential.

Producers of such products as commercial milk formulas, processed foods, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals and electronic gaming software have been ramping up efforts to influence United States policy toward the WHO.

In the first study of its kind, Penn researchers and an international team of collaborators found that a person’s genetics and the environment in which they live contribute to how socioeconomic status shapes the architecture of the brain.

Microplastics accumulate in the Rhine meadows at Langel-Merkenich / topography and flooding determine local concentrations of particles in the soil

A study by UC Davis Family Medicine Physician Na’amah Razon identified multiple barriers that family physicians navigate to provide abortion services to their patients. The barriers include lack of physician training and federal, state and institutional restrictions on providing medication abortion.