University of Adelaide researchers are helping humanity explore among the stars by developing off-Earth agriculture and––in the process––finding interstellar solutions that could transform plant cultivation here at home. Climate change…
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Most Americans comfortable with AI in health care
Harrison Jackson, MD, explains the ambient listening app that he uses in appointments to his patient at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The app uses artificial intelligence to…
SpaceX rolls out new booster for Cape Canaveral launch
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster reflight, but a Starlink launch Tuesday morning rolled out a brand new first stage. A…
The influence of optimism bias and loss aversion in cyber risk management decisions
by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. The left panel displays indifference curves describing the optimality of staying on the reference point, whereas the right panel shows the indifference curve of the…
Memory can be strengthened by unrelated experiences, study finds
Homosynaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) stimulus minutes before, after, or 24 hr after a weak associative conditioning produces lasting memory. Credit: eLife (2023). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.91421 There is a legend that many…
Elite pre-Mongol burial uncovered in Mongolia
A Multi-institutional team of archaeologists have uncovered an elite burial belonging to a Khar Nuur steppe nomad from the pre-Mongol period in Dornod Province, Mongolia. The excavation involved researchers from the…
New device captures CO₂ and converts it to useful products
Yang Yang, an associate professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, works with a device that helped develop his triple-phase device that captures and converts carbon dioxide. Credit: Antoine Hart In…
The UN can set a new course on “critical” transition minerals
Comment: A high-level panel is working to define principles for responsible mining, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September Claudia Velarde is Co-director of the Ecosystems…
Molecule Discovery Could Revolutionize Chronic Pain Treatment
Summary: Researchers have identified a natural molecule, phosphatidic acid, that reduces the sensitivity of touch-sensing ion channels, providing a promising new avenue for managing chronic pain. By increasing levels of…
This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct giant ground sloths
Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored rocks. Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider new to science. The…
