The discovery of bird flu in dairy cow milk highlighted a previously overlooked target for the H5N1 virus: mammary glands. A new study suggests it’s not unique to cows. An…
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Brain Area Linked to Mood Swings in Bipolar Disorder
Summary: A new study identifies brain areas linked to mood swings and pleasure response in bipolar disorder. Researchers found that people with bipolar disorder show heightened activity in the ventral…
Pathway for Migraine with Aura Discovered
Summary: Researchers have discovered why migraines are often one-sided, revealing that proteins released during aura are carried to pain-signaling nerves via cerebrospinal fluid. This study highlights a novel communication channel…
A new approach to realize quantum mechanical squeezing
Schematic of nonclassical mechanical states from a resonator–qubit combination. A transmon qubit couples capacitively to acoustic mechanical modes of a separate sapphire slab, one of which is represented as a…
NASA astronauts spend unexpected July 4 on the International Space Station
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent an unexpected Fourth of July aboard the International Space Station—but it was hardly a patriotic display of engineering prowess.…
Bring Your Own AI to Work Creates a Field Day for Cyberattackers
Security risk management software firm Panorays shed new light on the worsening network security problems workers cause. This internal threat occurs when employees use their organization’s network to experiment with…
A first physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor
Sam Dillavou, a postdoc in the Durian Research Group in the School of Arts & Sciences, built the components of this contrastive local learning network, an analog system that is…
