What do people think about smartglasses? New research reveals a complicated picture

Credit: Vika Glitter from Pexels Smartglasses, a type of wearable device, have evolved rapidly since the pioneering yet ill-fated Google Glass received social backlash in 2013. Early adopters were nicknamed…

AI Tool Reveals Long COVID May Affect 23% of People

Summary: A new AI tool identified long COVID in 22.8% of patients, a much higher rate than previously diagnosed. By analyzing extensive health records from nearly 300,000 patients, the algorithm…

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 136 — SpaceX Ascendant

SpaceX Ascendant – Can Anyone Compete? – YouTube Watch On On Episode 136 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with journalist and author Eric Berger…

Why Human Culture Never Stops Evolving

Summary: A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its “open-endedness.” Unlike animal cultures that reach…

Childhood Stress Disrupts Attention, Sleep, and Dopamine Balance in Adults

Summary: New research links childhood adversity with later attention deficits, sleep disruptions, and specific dopamine imbalances in the brain. Focusing on critical developmental windows, scientists found that disrupted care early…

First practical application of viscous electron flow realizes terahertz photoconductivity in graphene

Researchers develop promising new genetic breast cancer model

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Michigan State University researcher’s new model for studying breast cancer could help scientists better understand why and where cancer metastasizes. Professor who teaches in the…

How climate change affects health

Pakistan’s second biggest city Lahore recently recorded air pollution at a level 40 times level deemed acceptable by the WHO. Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread…

50 countries warn UN of ransomware attacks on hospitals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization and some 50 countries issued a warning Friday at the United Nations about the rise of ransomware attacks against hospitals, with the…

NASA astronauts won’t say which one of them got sick after almost eight months in space

The SpaceX crew of the Dragon spacecraft, from left, cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick and mission specialist Jeanette Epps gather for a photo after arriving at…