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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Nov-2025 13:11 ET (6-Nov-2025 18:11 GMT/UTC)

29-Oct-2025

Global science networks unite to accelerate evidence-based action on health and climate

The Frontiers Research Foundation and the One Sustainable Health (OSH) Forum are deepening their collaboration to strengthen the global science-policy interface for health and climate – uniting researchers, institutions, and policymakers ahead of the upcoming OSH For All Forum in Lyon, 2-5 November 2025.

29-Oct-2025

The 4th Japan-India Universities Forum on 15 November

Japan Science and Technology Agency
Meeting Announcement

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will hold the 4th Japan-India Universities Forum in India on November 15, 2025. In the event, we will focus on promoting Japan-India brain circulation and utilization of its human resources in the fields of science, technology, and innovation. Participants from 37 universities and research institutes and related organizations, and 11 business corporations in Japan and 35 universities and research institutes in India will be gathered.

28-Oct-2025

World Health Organization’s priorities shaped by its reliance on grants from donor organisations such as the Gates Foundation

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) priorities are being skewed by its increasing reliance on donations from organisations such as the Gates Foundation (previously known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), which must be spent on specific health challenges favoured by the donors, suggests a study published in the journal BMJ Global Health.

Journal: BMJ Global Health

28-Oct-2025

Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wetlands are an important part of the ecological system, providing a myriad of benefits for people, wildlife, and the environment. They also serve as “nature’s kidneys,” filtering out pollutants from surface water. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign finds that wetlands along the Mississippi River Basin effectively clean up nitrogen runoff from agricultural fields. The researchers also show this can lead to significant savings for local drinking water treatment facilities.

Journal: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Funder: National Great Rivers Research and Education Center.

28-Oct-2025

Low-cost pollution monitoring is Global South game-changer - study

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Low-cost sensor technology is revolutionising the way we identify and manage sources of air pollution, offering a powerful, affordable tool for improving public health and environmental policy worldwide.

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

28-Oct-2025

Leading the way in targeted cancer treatment

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for more targeted lung cancer treatments, a researcher at the University of Missouri thinks the solution may lie in tiny bubble-shaped packages that cells use to talk to each other.

Journal: Molecular Therapy Oncology

28-Oct-2025

Reducing use of sleep drugs could improve quality of life and longevity in older adults

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics finds that reducing prescriptions of sleep medication in older adults could provide substantial health and economic benefits.

Journal: The Lancet Regional Health - Americas