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7-Nov-2025

Michigan State University's James Madison College receives over $1 million to launch civic education academy

Michigan State University
Grant and Award Announcement

A three-year grant, totaling $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Education, will fund the James Madison College Academy for Civic Education, or ACE, offering intensive seminars built around primary sources like the U.S. Constitution, Federalist Papers, works that inspired America’s founding principles and pivotal speeches that have shaped American democracy.

7-Nov-2025

Engineered randomness enhances connection speed and precision in next-generation wireless systems

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a way to generate and control radio wave patterns that can identify a signal’s direction about ten times better than existing approaches, paving the way for next-generation wireless systems.

Journal: Communications Engineering
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, U.S. Department of Energy

7-Nov-2025

Young people using unregulated nicotine pouches despite health risks

University of Edinburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Young people in Scotland are experimenting with nicotine pouches and reporting adverse effects such as sickness and fainting, according to new research from the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) published today in the journal Addiction.

Journal: Addiction

7-Nov-2025

Heat- and cold-related mortality burden in the US from 2000 to 2020

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this case series, nonoptimal temperatures were critical environmental contributors associated with mortality burden, with differential vulnerability by geographic location, cause of death, and demographic factors. These findings highlight the need for urgent actions against temperature-related health burdens through tailored climate and public health strategies, considering the local context and demographic profiles.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

7-Nov-2025

Four ERC synergy grants for University of Freiburg researchers

University of Freiburg
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Freiburg researchers are involved in four funded projects. The University will receive a total of more than nine million euros.

The recipients of the grants are studying highly efficient solar cells, self-cleaning in body cells, the combination of diagnostics and therapy for cancer, and early medieval European communities.

The European Research Council (ERC) awards Synergy Grants to excellent international research teams.

6-Nov-2025

Shopping data reveals surprising urban food deserts

University of Adelaide
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new approach to identifying food deserts using grocery store purchase data suggests that store proximity is not the driver of nutritionally deficient diets – it is financial and social inequality.

6-Nov-2025

West Coast mammal-eating killer whales are two distinct communities that rarely mix

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research has confirmed that West Coast transient killer whales who live between British Columbia and California are two distinct subpopulations: inner and outer coast transients.

Based on 16 years of data from more than 2,200 encounters, the study published in PLOS One challenges previous assumptions about this group of mammal-eating killer whales.

“I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years,” says first author Josh McInnes, who conducted the research as part of his masters at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF). “Now our findings show the West Coast transients are two distinct groups, split along an east-west divide. They eat different things, hunt in different areas and very rarely spend time with each other.”

Journal: PLOS One