Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did not need to happen. A missed cancer screening, a fatal…
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Single device amplifies signals while shielding qubits from unwanted noise
Optical micrograph of the traveling-wave parametric amplifier and converter chip. The periodic square structures along the central transmission line are Josephson junctions, while the larger rectangular structures are the capacitors…
New personalized risk score could improve ovarian cancer detection
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated a new tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve patient outcomes…
Cybersecurity training programs don’t prevent employees from falling for phishing scams
Researchers found that there was no significant relationship between whether users had recently completed an annual, mandated cybersecurity training and the likelihood of falling for phishing emails. Credit: Ioana Patringenaru/University…
Mediterranean diet may offset much of the genetic risk of Alzheimer’s
Many observational studies have linked a Mediterranean diet to better cognitive health. … Now, new research suggests that people at high genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease may benefit the most…
Bout of cystitis may signal presence of urogenital cancers in middle-aged adults
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A bout of the common bladder infection, cystitis, may signal the presence of urogenital cancers—which affect parts of the body involved in reproduction and excretion—in middle-aged…
Olmec rubber balls preserved with anoxia technology
Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have developed a new anoxia technique to preserve ancient Olmec rubber balls found in southern Veracruz. The Olmec are the…
How NASA’s Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known…
Machine learning unravels quantum atomic vibrations in materials
Credit: Rosa Romano, EAS Communications/Caltech Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of the quantum interactions that take place in materials. In new…
