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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Sep-2025 00:11 ET (23-Sep-2025 04:11 GMT/UTC)

University of Oklahoma researchers studying e-cigarette habits in young adults

University of Oklahoma
Grant and Award Announcement

Electronic cigarettes, or vapes, are widely used and available in hundreds of different types and flavors, yet researchers lack information about the everyday e-cigarette habits of young adults. The National Institutes of Health, in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has funded a University of Oklahoma study that will investigate how, when and why young adults use e-cigarettes and how that use may relate to health risks. The results will help the FDA make decisions about regulating the makers of e-cigarette products.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

Tracking the planet in real time: inside China’s high-tech green governance engine

Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Facing escalating climate threats and environmental degradation, scientists have unveiled a transformative national framework that uses data and digital intelligence to guide environmental governance.

Journal: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

Hollings researcher leads international group suggesting anal cancer screening could cut cancer deaths by up to 65% among high-risk group

Medical University of South Carolina
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds that cytology screening for anal cancer every three years for men who have sex with men with HIV currently over the age of 35 plus cytology screening every two years for those who become newly eligible for screening at age 35 provides the highest value.

Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

AI perceived more negatively than climate science or science in general

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Driven by worries that the development and use of AI might have unintended consequences, the public's attitudes toward AI science are more negative than those toward general and climate science, researchers affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center found.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

Enabling healthy ageing: Leopoldina discussion paper recommends shift in focus in research and medicine

Leopoldina
Reports and Proceedings

Ageing is the primary risk factor for cancer, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases. As the understanding of the biology of ageing constantly improves, there are already initial approaches to geroprotection, which seeks to reduce the age-related risk of disease and thus extend healthy lifespan. In a discussion paper published today by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the researchers involved recommend a paradigm shift in how research and medicine approach age-related diseases. In the paper “Health-Extending Medicine in an Aging Society – Prospects for Medical Research and Practice” they call for better research into the ageing process, so that medicine can focus on ageing itself – rather than waiting to treat age-related diseases.

Sexual philosophy is the foundation for sexual ethics based on mutual care and pleasure

Estonian Research Council
Reports and Proceedings

There has been little research on sexual philosophy in Estonia, but it is a field of research that helps us make sense of an important part of human relationships. Rita Niineste, a PhD candidate at Tallinn University's School of Humanities, investigated what gives meaning to sex and why historical sexual theories have a negative impact on women's sexual self-perception.

Disconnected from math, students call for real-world relevance in RAND’s first-ever youth survey

RAND Corporation
Reports and Proceedings

According to the first-ever survey fielded to RAND’s new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high school grades reported losing interest in math about half or more of the time, and 75% of youths reported losing interest for at least some class time.

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