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1-Jul-2025

NASA missions help explain, predict severity of solar storms

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise.

Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar material — toward Earth. But the CME wasn’t especially fast or massive, suggesting the storm would be minor. But it became severe.

Using NASA heliophysics missions, new studies of this storm and others are helping scientists learn why some CMEs have more intense effects — and better predict the impacts of future solar eruptions on our lives.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal

1-Jul-2025

Food waste: Recycling, not discarding, offers huge environmental benefits

University of Pennsylvania

Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators examine how common food waste recycling methods, including composting, could have a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and the sparing of natural resources such as land and water. Food loss and waste, in particular, are “a big deal,” says Zhengxia Dou. They account for almost a third of the food produced for human consumption.

Journal: Nature Food
Funder: National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Major Science and Technology Projects in Yunnan Province, Major Science and Technology of Shandong Province, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Major Science and Technology Project of Shandong Province, National Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China

1-Jul-2025

This puzzle game shows kids how they’re smarter than AI

University of Washington
Reports and Proceedings

University of Washington researchers developed the game AI Puzzlers to show kids an area where AI systems still typically and blatantly fail: solving certain reasoning puzzles. In the game, users get a chance to solve puzzles by completing patterns of colored blocks. They can then ask various AI chatbots to solve and have the systems explain their solutions — which they nearly always fail to do accurately.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, Jacobs Foundation

1-Jul-2025

NYU Tandon engineers create first immunocompetent leukemia device for CAR T immunotherapy screening

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a microscope slide-sized "leukemia-on-a-chip," the first laboratory device to successfully combine both the physical structure of bone marrow and a functioning human immune system, an advance that could dramatically accelerate new immunotherapy development.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering

1-Jul-2025

Environmental science is worth £3.3 billion to UK offshore wind

UK Research and Innovation
Reports and Proceedings

Public investment in environmental science has helped power the rise of the UK’s offshore wind energy sector, while protecting marine species and habitats.

Offshore wind is an engine of growth for coastal regions and a key growth sector in the government’s industrial strategy.

As of the end of 2024 the UK had 45 operational offshore wind farms. These farms provide 17% of total UK electricity and support 32,000 jobs across the UK, predicted to grow to 100,000 by 2030.

A new study has found that long-term Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding delivered through our research centres has been an important factor in the development of the UK’s offshore wind industry.

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

1-Jul-2025

Hideyuki Okano starts new position as president of the ISSCR

International Society for Stem Cell Research
Business Announcement

The ISSCR is delighted to announce Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Keio University Regenerative Medicine Research Center, as well as former Dean of the Keio University School of Medicine in Japan, as its President. His term of office begins today.

1-Jul-2025

Self-driving lab: AI and automated biology combine to improve enzymes

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes — and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy