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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Sep-2025 18:10 ET (25-Sep-2025 22:10 GMT/UTC)

2-Apr-2025

When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters

University of Connecticut
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than 70% are overweight. One common policy intervention to tackle this urgent issue is to try to improve diet quality by increasing local grocery stores that offer healthy options. However, this is not a silver bullet, but researchers are not sure why.

A team of researchers developed a novel tool to help understand consumer behavior at the county level, and to study the relationship between where people shop for their food and the risk of obesity-related cancers. Their findings are published in BMC Medicine.

Journal: BMC Medicine

2-Apr-2025

Earth observation and advanced modelling to improve climate predictions: The CONCERTO Project is launched

Pensoft Publishers
Business Announcement

Terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics remain one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate projections, with diverging estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake, affecting the accuracy of Earth system models.

To address these challenges, CONCERTO (Improved CarbOn cycle represeNtation through multi-sCale models and Earth obseRvation for Terrestrial ecOsystems), was launched in January 2025.

2-Apr-2025

Scientists: the beautiful game is a silver bullet for global health

University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences
Reports and Proceedings

Danish researchers, in collaboration with the Danish Football Association, have released a White Paper that describes football as an effective recipe in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases.

Funder: Nordea Foundation, FIFA, TrygFonden, The Danish Heart Foundation, PROPA Denmark

2-Apr-2025

Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health

American Heart Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A “weekend warrior” approach to physical activity — getting 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity over one to two days instead of throughout the week — improved health and lowered the risk of death, finds a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association

2-Apr-2025

Tinker Tots: A citizen science project to explore ethical dilemmas in embryo selection

University of Oxford
Business Announcement

Researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine present a new, interactive study:

When choosing an embryo for implantation during in vitro fertilization (IVF), would you consider its chances of developing a health condition? What about traits like creativity, intelligence, or physical fitness? Tinker Tots is an interactive research project designed to explore how people make these difficult choices. By taking part, you help researchers understand how different genetic possibilities influence decision-making—while also gaining insight into your own and other people’s values.

2-Apr-2025

Cost to build multifamily housing in California more than twice as high as in Texas

RAND Corporation
Reports and Proceedings

For decades, California has ranked second only to Hawaii in housing and rental costs, and the state has seven of the 10 most expensive metropolitan areas in the nation. A new report finds the cost of building multifamily housing in California is more than twice as high as it is in Texas, with much of the difference driven by long permitting timelines and higher local development fees.

2-Apr-2025

Science ‘storytelling’ urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists should experiment with creative ways of communicating their work to inspire action to protect the natural world, researchers say.

Journal: People and Nature