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Fungi transform unrecyclable building waste into low-carbon insulation

University of Bath
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineers harness the power of fungi to break down engineered wood products and create bio-composites with insulating properties.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Novel ‘organ-on-chip' project to study the connection between diabetes and dementia

University of Bath
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers are developing a connected brain-gut-pancreas system on a chip to study how signals travel between organs and why glucose affects brain function.

Study maps how ‘Big AI’ influences AI laws and oversight

University of Edinburgh
Reports and Proceedings

Artificial intelligence companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study.

Meeting: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

AI-powered CPR coach outperforms 911 dispatchers in guiding bystander resuscitation

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Open-source AI agent ChatCPR beat human dispatchers at CPR coaching in every head-to-head test, delivering guideline-based help that could save lives in the 350,000+ U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine
Funder: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

An AI–enabled cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructor

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that AI-enabled cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction shows promise for supporting bystanders. Further validation in diverse, general population settings is warranted to define the role of AI-based CPR instruction as a scalable public health intervention for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine

Global North drains resources and labour from Latin America through unequal exchange in international trade

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than 900 million tonnes of materials, 4 million km2 of land, and 53 billion hours of labour. This is the scale of resources that the Global North net appropriated from Latin America through international trade in 2020 alone, according to a new study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) which analyses ecologically unequal exchange and economic dependency.

Journal: Ecological Economics

Corn diseases cost farmers $13.8 billion from 2020 to 2023

American Phytopathological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion USD from 2020 to 2023, according to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada.

Journal: Plant Health Progress
Funder: United States Department of Agriculture–National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture–National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Agricultural Adaptation Council, Indiana Corn Marketing Council

augmented: life and death as a cyborg

The MIT Press
Book Announcement

Candi Cann’s book brings together three very important and often neglected intersecting topics: death, disability, and technology.

Grejtak earns STLE Early Career Award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Tomas Grejtak has received STLE’s Early Career Award, honoring high-impact research in tribology (friction, wear, and lubrication), and will be recognized at the society’s May 18–21 annual meeting in New Orleans. His work focuses on wear, friction, deformation, and contact mechanics in materials used in nuclear, biomass, and automotive systems.