Doctor’s bills often come with sticker shock for patients − but health insurance could be reinvented to provide costs upfront

You have scheduled an appointment with a health care provider, but no matter how hard you try, no one seems to be able to reliably tell you how much that…

Photon qubits challenge AI, enabling more accurate quantum computing without error-correction techniques

Optoelectronic device mimics human vision for diversified in-sensor computing

Object tracking by the hybrid D-OEM and NV-OEM sensory system. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01794-z The device presented by the researchers leverages both electricity and light to concurrently process…

Presidency issues draft finance text without numbers

The draft text outlines two very different options on the post-2025 goal for finance for developing nations, leaving out amounts This article will be updated throughout the day and an…

No-burp syndrome: 20,000 people on Reddit’s “I can’t belch” subreddit spread the word of a Botox cure

In a video posted to Reddit this summer, Lucie Rosenthal’s face starts focused and uncertain, looking intently into the camera, before it happens. She releases a succinct, croak-like belch. Then, it’s…

SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics

Webstory:  https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-11-20-slac-celebrates-50-years-nobel-winning-discovery-particle-physics   On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The…

Major genetic defect linked to female infertility identified

Manhattan plots for female infertility. Credit: The American Journal of Human Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.018 Up to 15% of all couples suffer from infertility at some point in their lives.…

Plasma dynamic synthesis method produces carbide and carbonitride for industrial applications

Robotic inspection for steel bridge integrity

Social connections change our microbiomes, study of isolated villages suggests

The researchers mapped the social networks and collected microbiome data of residents of 18 remote villages in Honduras. Credit: Human Nature Lab at Yale Friends tend to share common interests,…