A new analysis has found that after Utah lowered the legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for driving from 0.08 to 0.05 g/dL, alcohol-related crash fatalities declined significantly more in Utah compared to its six contiguous states. The findings from the study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, provide timely evidence that lowering the BAC limit may save lives and point to broad public safety benefits.

The EU must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 relative to 1990 – of which 5 percentage points can be achieved through climate action elsewhere, according to the 2025 law. A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now proposes a novel instrument for this external component: performance-based Jurisdictional Reward Funds. This avoids perverse incentives, strengthens international and thus also European climate action, and costs just 5 billion euros annually. The study is available as a PIK Policy Paper on the institute’s website. Co-author Ottmar Edenhofer is PIK Director and Chair of the EU climate advisory board.

Critical Path Institute, through its Type 1 Diabetes Consortium, today reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening the regulatory-science and evidence infrastructure needed to enable the next phase of therapeutic innovation across multiple stages of type 1 diabetes (T1D). The announcement comes in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) accelerated approval last week of Tzield® as the first disease-modifying therapy for stage 3 type 1 diabetes, a milestone achieved by Sanofi, one of several long-standing members of C-Path’s T1D Consortium.

Since 2022, Georgia’s surrogacy industry has boomed, with oversubscribed clinics now recruiting women from across Central Asia via Instagram and TikTok. New research conducted at the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) provides unprecedented insight into the hidden systems of emotional control sustaining Georgia’s transnational surrogacy market.

The Research Centre “Normative Orders” at Goethe University and Suhrkamp Publishing House are hosting an international symposium in memory of philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas, who died in March. Under the title “No One Is Free Until We Are All Free,” leading scholars from Europe and North America will discuss the continuing relevance of his work and the future of Critical Theory.