Kharon and Digital Science have entered into a strategic partnership, bringing together Kharon’s risk intelligence and Digital Science’s world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have released Observer, the first multimodal dataset of anonymized, real-world clinical encounters, combining video, audio, transcripts and health records. By capturing how care actually unfolds in the exam room, the dataset enables new research into communication, clinical practice and the responsible development of AI for health care.

An analysis by Shinshu University and the Distribution Economics Institute of Japan shows that wholesale prices for flounder—a key Fukushima catch—remained stable after the August 2023 ALPS-treated water discharge. Using a predictive market model based on pre-discharge data, the study found no significant price decline, providing reassurance for fisheries stakeholders and informing future policy debates on nuclear-water disposal.

Coordinating with public health officials, offering students laptops and showing them how to connect, creating Wi-Fi hubs for neighborhoods that lack them, developing new systems for distributing school lunches and offering in-person learning hubs for students whose parents were essential workers are among the many specific recommendations included in a new book about K-12 learning during a pandemic. 

Using satellite imagery and government data, researchers measured a 5 percent increase in voluntary, or non-subsidized, cover crop adoption by Arkansas farmers. Using data from 2013-2019, agricultural economists with the experiment station showed that cover crop adoption in Arkansas had the greatest association with a soybean-to-soybean cash crop rotation. The finding came out of research seeking to pinpoint how farmers were using cover crops and where, to help policymakers develop more targeted incentives for using cover crops.