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While some countries are doubling down on electrification due to fuel shortages caused by the Iran war, he also emphasized that aviation is an industry that can literally establish its foundation without using fossil fuels. Flight relies on fossil-based jet fuel, which is extremely difficult to decarbonize.Chinese researchers have now reported a process that could help reduce aviation’s carbon footprint while tackling the plastic waste crisis. This two-step process converts plastic waste into high-quality jet fuel more efficiently and at a much lower cost than other methods of converting plastic waste into fuel that researchers have previously reported.The team’s preliminary…

Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. Today we have an item from STAT’s new AAAS Media Fellow, Lauren Chan. She will be reporting with us this summer. Scroll down to read her report on sugary soda research. Diabetes leaders apologize for expulsion Less than a week after five American Diabetes Association members were removed from their annual meeting, the organization’s CEO has offered an apology to them and the broader diabetes community. “We recognize the impact that experience has had on each of you,” ADA…

Takeda has won the TYK2 inhibitor battle, defeating Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Sotiktu, and strengthening its position ahead of an expected launch for plaque psoriasis next year. The Phase 3 trial compared BMS’s Sotiktu with zasotitinib, a TYK2 inhibitor that Takeda acquired in 2022 for an upfront payment of $4 billion. In a cross-study comparison, up to 33.4% of patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis had clear skin after treatment in Takeda’s earlier Phase 3 trial, compared with up to 14% of Sotiktu’s patients, suggesting that zasocitinib easily wins the battle. On Thursday, Professor Takeda shared data showing that cross-examination comparisons…

Artificial intelligence is already playing a major role in helping cosmologists study the universe. Now, new research suggests that a machine learning technique called transfer learning could make exploring new physics much faster and cheaper. But the study also revealed some surprising shortcomings. AI can become too reliant on what it has already learned and have a hard time recognizing anything truly new. This research Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) considered how transfer learning can help researchers study theories beyond standard cosmological models. Exploring AI and new physics The current standard cosmological model, known as ΛCDM, successfully explains…

Being awake and moving around throughout the day consistently correlates with how energized and fulfilled people feel. People who tend to experience low mood show the strongest association between daily activities and well-being. These findings demonstrate that small amounts of daily activity are important components of public health and individual mental health. A large meta-analysis detailing these patterns was published in the journal nature human behavior. Historically, research into the relationship between movement and mood has been conducted in artificial laboratory settings or relied on questionnaires asking people to recall their mood over the past few weeks. This approach carries…

People who are not happy with their height often compensate for it by changing other aspects of their appearance, such as losing weight, building muscle, or wearing certain shoes. Recent research published in Journal of Social Psychology We provide evidence that body dissatisfaction extends far beyond traditional concerns about weight and shape. The results of this study suggest that people actively engage in a variety of behaviors to compensate for their unchanging physical characteristics. Body dissatisfaction is a well-known psychological problem that usually focuses on a person’s weight and overall body shape. People who are dissatisfied with their weight often…

SpaceX, Elon Musk The rocket launcher and data center operator plans to go public on Friday with a target valuation of more than $1.75 trillion. The move will make Musk, already the world’s richest man, significantly richer.An initial public offering would allow SpaceX to raise even more money and quickly fund its AI ambitions, including building more data centers.But even as Musk and other SpaceX investors expect huge profits, the community that hosts the already operational xAI data center is demanding accountability for the company’s use of polluting gas turbines and water treatment facilities that were shut down earlier this…

Limiting long-term global warming to below 1.5°C requires more than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The world also needs technologies that can remove and store the hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) already in the atmosphere, according to climate scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest assessment report. One approach that is gaining increasing attention is direct air capture (DAC), a process that removes CO2 directly from the air. Companies and research teams have spent years developing DAC systems, and Climeworks, a spinoff from ETH Zurich founded in 2009, was one of the…

In the shadow of the Miami skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, the endangered juvenile giant hammerhead spends its first two years of life. A few miles away from downtown, researchers recently pulled a 12-foot-long endangered sawfish from the same shallow water. The species has been disappearing in alarming numbers across South Florida waters since 2024, something scientists suspect was caused by record ocean heat. The bay is filled with creatures that most of the city has never registered. It is home to more than 30 threatened and endangered species and more than 100 species important…

Lunchables revolutionized children’s meals when they launched in 1989. The yellow boxes filled with crackers, cheese, and deli meats provided working moms with an easy way to pack lunches, and children with a tangible DIY experience. Sales reached $200 million in the first year alone. According to a study published in the journal Last Week, its appeal is no coincidence, but rather the result of the ultra-processed food industry’s adoption of tobacco marketing tactics, technology and behavioral science. Special issue of the American Journal of Public Health. After Philip Morris Companies acquired General Foods in the 1980s, the company “applied…