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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Apr-2025 02:08 ET (30-Apr-2025 06:08 GMT/UTC)

Alianza Americas co-founder Oscar Chacón to be awarded 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize

Case Western Reserve University
Grant and Award Announcement

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University will award Oscar Chacón, a tireless advocate for human rights and dignity in immigration and dismantling the portrayal of immigrants as threats to society, with the 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize.

Closing the green space gap: Addressing gender inequality in nature access

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Urban green spaces are known to boost mental health. However, these benefits may not be equally shared, as new research from the University of Surrey suggests that women and gender minorities face unique barriers when it comes to enjoying these spaces.

Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology

ERC grant to explore how excessive confidence in science and technology is blocking the deep sustainability turn

Estonian Research Council
Grant and Award Announcement

European Research Council has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Laur Kanger, Associate Professor of Technology Research at the University of Tartu, to investigate why future technologies can aggravate environmental problems rather than solve them.

Funder: European Research Council

On the trail of the 2011 mega earthquake

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Business Announcement

What was the cause of the great Tōhoku earthquake of 2011, and how can we better understand geological processes in order to protect coastal infrastructure in the long term – for example, from a tsunami like the one 13 years ago? These questions are currently the focus of a scientific expedition as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), in which researchers from the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen are participating.

Long-term survival and cardiac efficacy of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy evaluated the long-term survival and cardiac efficacy of the gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec in a rat model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

Journal: Human Gene Therapy

Study exposes high injury rates in transgender women

Radiological Society of North America
Reports and Proceedings

A new study found that injury rates among transgender women are significantly higher than injuries among cisgender women, based on radiological imaging. The findings will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Meeting: 110th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America

Mexican American women less likely to take stroke prevention medications as prescribed

American Heart Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Female stroke survivors who were older or married were also more likely to report missing prescribed doses than men, finds new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association

Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association