Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drug dapagliflozin, widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, also shows improvements for patients with progressive liver disease, finds…
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Baby’s microbiome may protect against later childhood viral infection
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A baby’s makeup of gut bacteria—their microbiome—which starts to form as soon as they are born, could help protect against viral infections later in childhood, a…
Hallucinogens Linked to Milder PTSD
Summary: In a unique real-world study, researchers examined the psychological effects of trauma on survivors of the October 7 Nova Festival attack in Israel, focusing on their use of mind-altering…
Royal tomb unearthed in Gordion could belong to King Midas’ family
Archaeologists from the Gordion Project have uncovered a Phrygian royal tomb, potentially belonging to a member of King Midas’ Family from the 8th century BC. Gordion was the capital city…
Team achieves 3D recognition of transparent objects in less than two seconds
The measurement scene is irradiated with a thermal point pattern in the single-shot method. The 3D result is processed in just a few seconds. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF What used to…
Nostalgic Tunes Trigger Stronger Urge to Dance Than Familiar Hits
Summary: A new study reveals that nostalgia plays a powerful role in making us want to dance, even more so than familiarity with a song alone. Researchers asked young adults…
Bedtime Procrastination Linked to Personality Traits
Summary: New research reveals that bedtime procrastination in young adults is linked to specific personality traits, especially higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness and extraversion. These associations remained significant even after…
Universal law of quantum vortex dynamics discovered in superfluid helium
From left, postdoctoral researcher Yiming Xing, Professor Wei Guo, and graduate student Yousef Alihosseini at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The researchers injected tiny frozen particles into superfluid helium…
Outdoor earthquake shake table contributes to greater structural safety
In June, this 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building will be put to the test at the UC San Diego outdoor earthquake simulator. This is the latest in a long line of…
