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The Sun’s magnetic activity might be far more “skin-deep” than we thought. Recent evidence shows its magnetic fields may form close to the surface, not deep in the core. Learn how this could change space-weather forecasts. www.scientia.global/sara-f-marti... #SolarPhysics doi.org/10.3389/fspa...
Sara F Martin | The Sun’s Magnetic Activity May Be More ‘Superficial’ Than We Thought • scientia.global
Scientists have long debated where solar cycle magnetic fields come from—deep within its interior or closer to its surface. Compelling new evidence suggests these fields may originate much closer to t...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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New research explores how light therapy could ease MELAS, a mitochon-drial disease that affects energy production in the body.
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Dr Liisa Laakso | Lighting the Way: Exploring Photobiomodulation to Ease MELAS • scientia.global
MELAS is a rare and serious genetic condition that affects how the body’s cells produce energy, leading to extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, and a range of other symptoms. With no cure currently avail...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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AI alone isn’t enough when data is noisy. New work by Nick Martin shows how combining data + physics via Data Assimilation, gives more reliable water resources models and avoids misleading results from bad da-ta. www.scientia.global/nick-martin-... #WaterScience #AI doi.org/10.3390/w161...
Nick Martin | Data Assimilation: Overcoming AI's Data Uncertainty Limitations for Water Resources • scientia.global
Water resources are essential for human life. Knowing how to manage water, both now and in the future, is necessary to continue using it as well as possible. Nick Martin and Jeremy White are examining...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Sound waves plus electricity target cancer cells with precision in a new immunotherapy breakthrough. Discover how acoustics meet medi-cine: www.scientia.global/professor-ab... #CancerResearch #Innovation doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
Professor Abraham P. Lee | Delivering Cancer Immunotherapy with Acoustic-Electric Precision, AESOP’s Fact not Fable • scientia.global
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy offers life-saving potential, particularly against blood cancers, but severe side effects such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) limit its safety. These...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Stories and spirituality can heal. The latest work shows how therapy grounded in meaning and faith helps people re-write painful pasts into hopeful futures.
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Dr Suzanne Coyle | Weaving Spirituality into Psychotherapy: How Stories Help Healing • scientia.global
As the practice of psychotherapy increasingly embraces the spiritual dimensions of the human experience, therapists are investigating new ways to weave faith and meaning into healing. Dr Suzanne Coyle...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Exploring innovative treatments for Alzheimer's disease, researchers are investigating mechanical and light-based therapies, such as transcranial ultrasound stimulation and photobiomodulation, to enhance brain function and slow symptom progression. www.scientia.global/new-approach... #Alzheimers
New Approaches to Treating Alzheimer’s Disease • scientia.global
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating condition that strips away people’s memory, thinking, and independence. By 2050, it is expected to affect over 100 million people around the world, making it a hig...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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How does light energise the living nerve? Dr Bo Song uncovers a powerful link between photons and neural function. www.scientia.global/dr-bo-song-l...
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Dr Bo Song | Light, Energy, and the Living Nerve • scientia.global
At University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, recent work by Professor Bo Song and colleagues suggests that light may play an unexpected role in the way our nerves use and transmit energy. The...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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How do we train AI to handle extreme events? Dr Kenric Nelson introduces a new approach to make artificial intelligence truly risk-aware. www.scientia.global/dr-kenric-ne... #AI #MachineLearning @kenricnelson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Dr Kenric Nelson | Modelling the Extreme: A New Technique for Training Risk-Aware Artificial Intelligence • scientia.global
Category 5 hurricanes, financial crashes, and global pandemics are just a few examples of rare events whose high risks necessitate understanding and mitigation. Developments in artificial intelligence...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Where does classical physics end and quantum mechanics begin? Dr Khaled Mnaymeh explores this boundary. www.scientia.global/dr-khaled-mn...
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Dr Khaled Mnaymeh | Does a Boundary Exist Between Classical and Quantum Mechanics? • scientia.global
Physicists typically have two frameworks for considering mechanics – a classical picture, looking at larger-scale objects, or a quantum picture, considering things on a subatomic scale. Where the boun...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Thousands of fossils are at risk of crumbling away. Professor Loren Bab-cock is fighting to preserve them before time runs out. www.scientia.global/professor-lo... doi.org/10.3390/d170... #Paleontology
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Professor Loren Babcock | The Race to Save Fossils From the Hands of Time • scientia.global
Ohio Wesleyan University’s geological collection, which was amassed in Delaware, Ohio, USA, is among the oldest in America, but decades after those who assembled the collection retired and passed on, ...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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New moon rock samples from Yi Gang Xu suggest a dramatic rethink of the lunar cataclysm theory. Rediscover the Moon: www.scientia.global/professor-yi... #MoonScience #LunarIm-pactHistory #Change6Samples doi.org/10.1093/nsr/...
Professor Yi-Gang Xu | It’s Written in the Stones - New Moon Rock Samples Demand a Rethink of Lunar Cataclysm Theory • scientia.global
A significant debate continues between scholars in the astronomical community regarding the early history of our solar system. It’s been hypothesised that the solar system experienced a dramatic catac...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Our future depends on how well we understand the past. In this issue of Scientia, we explore how education, history, and culture shape the innovations of tomorrow.
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Scientia Issue #155 | Our future relies on teaching of the past • scientia.global
This is the second issue of Scientia in its newest life. Our new Editor-in-Chief is Maria Machado, a physiologist turned consultant. You may not have noticed, but you met Maria when reading about gend...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Dr Ray Stewart exposes the crisis of dental care access for people with special needs — where limited training, insurance gaps and system inertia are leaving tens of thousands behind. www.scientia.global/dr-ray-stewa... #HealthEquity #DentalCare doi.org/10.1080/1942...
Dr Ray Stewart | Barriers to Dental Care for People with Special Needs: A Crisis of Neglect and Inaction • scientia.global
For people with special healthcare needs, something as basic as visiting a dentist can be nearly impossible. A ground-breaking paper by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Professor Dilip Kumar shares how a small maths department in Kerala grew into a leading research centre shaping India’s next generation of mathematicians. www.scientia.global/professor-di... #Mathematics #Education
Professor Dilip Kumar | From the Ground Up: The Making of a Modern Mathematics Centre in Kerala • scientia.global
In 1977, Professor Aleyamma George, head of statistics at Kerala University, dreamed of establishing a new centre for mathematical sciences in Kerala’s coastal capital Trivandrum. Her mission was to e...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Can we rebuild trust in science? Preprints and DORA are reshaping how research is shared, reviewed, and valued beyond the impact factor. www.scientia.global/preprints-tr... #OpenScience #ResearchReform
Preprints, Trust, and DORA • scientia.global
The journal article has long been the object that defines academic career trajectories. In this issue, we talk to one of the main disruptors of this status quo. Rebecca Lawrence is Vice President, Kn...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Professors Jun Tsuji and Steven Wathen are empowering diverse students through SHAPE STEM tackling sustainability and equity in science education.
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Professor Jun Tsuji - Professor Steven Wathen | SHAPE STEM: Building a Sustainable Future through STEM Education • scientia.global
The SHAPE STEM program at Siena Heights University is transforming how students engage with science, tackling urgent environmental challenges in Michigan while preparing the next generation of problem...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Light particles never stop moving even in the coldest solids. New work by Matjaž Gomilšek and team uses muons to map how quantum “jitters” affect materials at the deepest level.
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Assistant Professor Matjaž Gomilšek | Ghost in the Material: Using Muons to Study the Effects of Quantum Jitters • scientia.global
Nothing can ever be perfectly still, no matter how cold you make it. Take solid nitrogen, for example, which freezes at a bone-chilling -210 °C. You might expect its molecules to be frozen rigidly in ...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Professor John Paul Pezacki is engineering proteins to stop disease progression by targeting key miRNAs driving viral and cancer growth.
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Professor John Paul Pezacki, PhD, FRSC (UK) | Engineering Proteins for the Prevention of Disease Progression • scientia.global
The way in which viruses invade and replicate within their hosts involves a multilayered system of protein-based interactions, and understanding the mechanisms at play is crucial when developing poten...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Understanding the future of floods. Nick Martin explores smarter risk tools for sustainable water management in a changing climate. Discover more: www.scientia.global/nick-martin-... #ClimateResilience #WaterSecurity doi.org/10.3390/w170...
Nick Martin | The Future of Floods: Smarter Risk Tools for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate • scientia.global
Sustainable decision-making requires balancing the costs borne by today’s society with those that will fall on future generations. Climate change is intensifying extreme weather, making floods more se...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Probing plasmas that last mere trillionths of a second, Professor Luca Volpe and team harness ultra-fast proton beams to unlock the dynamics of extreme states of matter. Discover more: www.scientia.global/professor-lu... #FusionResearch #HighEnergyPhysics doi.org/10.3390/s241...
Professor Luca Volpe | It’s All in the Timing: Probing Plasmas with Ultra-Fast Protons • scientia.global
Studying the behaviour of plasma – a state of matter beyond the familiar three: solid, liquid, and gas – is crucial for our understanding of planets, stars, and the possibility of generating unlimited...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Science isn’t just for the lab, it’s for everyone. Introducing Open Impact, the next step beyond Open Science, making research clear, meaningful, and usable by all. Let’s close the gap be-tween discovery and impact. www.scientia.global/open-impact-...
Open Impact: Making Science Truly Accessible to All • scientia.global
We are all familiar with the term Open Science. Over the past decade, the global research community has made enormous strides towards ensuring that publicly funded research is openly available—that jo...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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🌿 Meet Janine Galliano a environmental researcher and storyteller exploring biodiversity, ecosystem health and sustainable futures. Dive into her journey and work:
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October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Rebecca States shows how exercise choices can improve balance for people with Parkinson’s, small moves, big impact. www.scientia.global/professor-re... Discover more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ct... #ParkinsonsResearch #HealthyMovement
Professor Rebecca States | Better Balance with Exercise: Choices for Parkinson’s • scientia.global
Parkinson’s disease is the most rapidly growing neurological disease worldwide. At present, there are no treatments that can prevent or reverse the damage caused by this disease. Therefore, there is a...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Exploring the brain’s command hub Professor Hong-Wei Dong dives into how our minds direct the body’s every move. www.scientia.global/professor-ho... Fascinating science ahead! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #neuroscience #neurobiology
Professor Hong-Wei Dong | Mapping the Mind’s Command Centre for the Body • scientia.global
The brain’s ability to manage stress and guide behaviour, including making decisions or interacting with others, relies in part on an area called the medial prefrontal cortex. But exactly how this reg...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Meet Dr Laura Hemmingham, a palaeoecologist and scientific content producer passionate about making science accessible. From fossil data to conservation, she bridges the past and present in her writing. Discover more about her journey and process here: www.scientia.global/featured-wri...
Featured writer: Laura Hemmingham • scientia.global
I’m a scientific content producer with a strong academic background in zoology, environmental science, and ecology. I hold a PhD in palaeoecology, and throughout my academic and professional journey, ...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM