(Public Library of Science) Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE.

(The Journal of Visualized Experiments) In an effort to address information inequality around the world, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will now be offering free subscriptions through the HINARI initiative to developing countries in South America, Asia and Africa.

(University of California – Davis Health System) Two deans from the UC Davis School of Medicine have outlined several approaches to biomedical research workforce development, a topic that is currently under scrutiny by the National Institutes of Health.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) If future physicians are to best serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities, medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention, experts say in a supplement to October’s American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM).

(American Sociological Association) The drinking habits of a romantic partner’s friends are more likely to impact an adolescent’s future drinking than are the behaviors of an adolescent’s own friends or significant other, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) Eight investigators across the United States will receive funding over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programs for K-12 students and their teachers. These grants are funded by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Science Education Award and the Science Education Partnership Award Program of the National Center for Research Resources. NIDA, part of NIH and administrator of the grants, made the announcement.

(Penn State) A science- and energy-based program focusing on Pennsylvania counties with natural gas exploration and production, and developed by a multidisciplinary team of Penn State researchers, is part of a $2.5-million grant from the National Science Foundation.

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Stroke victims may have a longer window of opportunity to receive treatment to save their brain cells, demonstrates a literature review published by University of Alberta medical researchers in Lancet Neurology.

(Florida State University) Repeat after me: “I will not eat ice cream, I will not eat ice cream, I will not eat ice cream.”

(University of Utah) University of Utah organic chemist Peter J. Stang has won a National Medal of Science — the highest U.S. honor for a scientist or engineer — and is tentatively scheduled to be honored by President Barack Obama at the White House later this year.