A team of archaeologists from the University of South Florida (USF) have excavated a Roman townhouse in the ruins of ancient Melite, located in present-day Mdina on the island of…
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AI Traces Emotional Contagion – Neuroscience News
Summary: Researchers artificial intelligence (AI) to measure the risk of “emotional contagion” among relationship professionals, such as social workers and psychologists. This emotional contagion, an unconscious transfer of emotions, can…
Study of cadmium in pregnant women yields crucial insights into fetal development
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can adversely impact fetal development. Now, researchers at the Rutgers School of Public Health…
New study finds the prealbumin gene alone is insufficient for diagnosis of heart failure
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new multi-center study led by doctors at Boston Medical Center and Columbia University found that having a genetic variant in the prealbumin gene alone is…
Astronomers shed new light on formation of mysterious fast radio bursts
The Chinese Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Credit: Bojun Wang, Jinchen Jiang & Qisheng Cui More than 15 years after the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs)—millisecond-long, deep-space cosmic…
Journeys Beyond: Contrasting Psychedelic Trips and Near-Death Experiences
Summary: A research study scrutinizes the parallels and differences between a near-death experience (NDE) during a coma and the experience induced by a potent psychedelic drug, 5-Methoxy-DMT (5MeO-DMT). The researchers…
A rocky path to Cop28
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events As wildfires ravaged southern Europe and heatwaves gripped large swathes…
Making smart city infrastructure watertight in Vietnam
Hạ Long Bay, Thành phố Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures offers guidance on securing water critical infrastructures and…
Hurricane Maria offered an opportunity to make Puerto Rico’s electric grid more resilient: It hasn’t happened
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After Hurricane Maria razed the electrical grid in Puerto Rico nearly six years ago, there was a lot of talk about making the energy system more…
New smartphone vulnerability could allow hackers to track user location
Hackers may use machine learning to exploit a text-messaging vulnerability, according to new research led by Northeastern Ph.D. student Evangelos Bitsikas. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University A newly discovered vulnerability in…
