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Cleft Summit 2025: How to Ensure Psychosocial Assessments Actually Improve the Lives of Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Objective The 3 rd Cleft Summit examined whether and how cleft teams assess the psychosocial impact of facial differences on children and their families and sought to develop actionable strategies for improving psychosocial outcomes. Design Expert consensus study followed by a de...

Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists

Societal Impact Statement Soil is a vital resource for life on Earth. Although many soils are degraded, societal awareness of soil‐related issues is limited. To highlight soil as a key resource and fascinating study system, we initiated a citizen science project together with 100...

Beyond the Western paradigm: re-evaluating the 15-minute city through the lens of Japanese transit-oriented urbanism

The 15-minute city, formalised by Carlos Moreno in 2016, has become a dominant framework for sustainability discourse. Yet its diffusion from Paris to Melbourne and Portland has proceeded without interrogating whether a home-centred proximity model is universally applicable. This...