Ever since learning the surface of the planet Mars is cold and dead, scientists have wondered if there was a way to make it friendlier to life. A team including…
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Impact of concussion while playing sports is different in those who don’t play professionally, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sports-related concussions (SRC) may not be associated with long-term cognitive risks for non-professional athletes, a study led by a UNSW medical researcher suggests. In fact, study…
Viewpoint: Probiotics are not regulated by the FDA. Do they even work?
P robiotics, also referred to as live biotherapeutic products (LBPs), are products that contain live organisms, such as bacteria, that are found naturally in humans. The most common are bacteria that belong…
A sensory pen that can read Braille could improve literacy among the visually impaired
Braille-tip pen. Credit: George Jenkinson A pen that can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy is frequently reported as…
Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations may increase care engagement and quality among pregnant and postpartum patients
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that Medicaid ACOs in Massachusetts were associated with increases in prenatal and postpartum office visits, postpartum depression screenings, and timely postpartum…
NASA’s mini BurstCube mission detects its first gamma-ray burst
BurstCube, trailed by another CubeSat named SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation), emerges from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024. Credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has…
On-demand transit can disrupt commuting as much as Uber did taxis, say researchers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Is public transit ready for a gig economy-style shake up? A group of researchers at Concordia believes that the ride-share model made popular by companies like…
Underwater archaeologists discover ancient dagger on seabed
Underwater archaeologists from Akdeniz University have discovered a 3,600-year-old silver rivetted bronze dagger off the coast of Kumluca Municipality in Turkey. Since 2019, an excavation project, led by Assoc. Prof.…
Cold-atom simulator demonstrates quantum entanglement between electronic and motional states
Atoms in the optical lattice, trapped at a distance of 0.5 micron, are excited to the Rydberg state by the ultrafast excitation technique. Interaction between close Rydberg atoms results in…
UAH researcher wins NASA FINESST scholarship to st
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System,…
