China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision in 1st-of-its-kind space cooperation

China recently reached out to NASA over a maneuver to prevent a possible collision between satellites, a space sustainability official said, marking a first for space traffic management. “For years,…

How to keep dementia from robbing your loved ones of their sense of personhood – tips for caregivers

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. There are over 6 million people living with dementia in the U.S. and 57 million globally. These figures will only increase…

Why does your doctor seem so rushed and dismissive? That bedside manner may be the result of the health care system

We’ve all been there: You wait 45 minutes in the exam room when the doctor finally walks in. They seem rushed. A few questions, a quick exam, a glance at…

Qiwen Guo | Do trees adjust their underground schedule when living with different species? – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Qiwen Guo, a PhD student in the Institute of Forest Ecology at BOKU University in Vienna, discusses her new article  ‘Above- and…

Why fears of a trillion-dollar AI bubble are growing

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the…

The ‘hard, slow work’ of reducing overdose deaths is having an effect

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Illicit drug overdoses and the deaths they cause are trending down this year, despite spikes in a handful of states, according to a Stateline analysis of…

Urban living linked to chronic stress epidemic in modern humans

According to Shaw, protecting spaces that resemble those from our hunter-gatherer past is in the interest of public health. Credit: Barbara Simpson Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of…

Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time

DESI is a state-of-the-art instrument which maps distant objects to study dark energy. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab The universe’s expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at…

Oxidative Stress May Drive Repetitive Behaviors Linked to Autism, OCD

Summary: A new study shows that oxidative stress—an imbalance between damaging molecules and antioxidants—may contribute to repetitive behaviors observed in mice, similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorder and…

Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM

The NIRC2 image of dust around a young star named HD34282 (left) produced using an algorithm to construct images from aperture masking interferometry data. The light from the star is removed and…