Viewpoint: Righteous Risks — Here’s how (and why) environmental advocacy groups misrepresent the risks from innovations but cynically ignore genuine dangers

Data-driven app results in 25% fewer emergency hospital admissions from care homes

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The use of a digital remote monitoring technology in care homes has been found to reduce hospital A&E attendances by 11% and emergency admissions by 25%…

Dance Your Way to Better Mental Health

Summary: Structured dance programs are as beneficial, and sometimes superior, to traditional physical activities for enhancing psychological and cognitive health. This systematic review and meta-analysis, involving a broad age range…

How automation is assisting forensic scientists in shoe print identification

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On the morning of Dec. 21, 1999, William Fyfe went to a clothing drop-off at Trinity Church in Toronto and left three pairs of running shoes.…

970-metre-long prehistoric megastructure found submerged in Baltic Sea

Geologists have discovered a 970-metre-long megastructure of linear arranged stones, located at a depth of 21 metres on the seabed of Mecklenburg Bight in the Baltic Sea. The megastructure consists…

Astronauts from NASA’s Expedition 71 to conduct research aboard space station

Brain organoid cells from the previous investigation Cosmic Brain Organoids are made of cells from people with Parkinson’s Disease and primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Credit: New York Stem Cell Research…

Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN report details

Migratory species don’t travel with a passport, but they cross borders all the time. This makes the animals’ conservation a uniquely challenging, international effort. That effort needs a lot of…

Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past 20 years, people living with HIV in the United States have seen a drastic improvement in their overall quality of life. But the…

US ‘pause’ on future liquefied gas exports throws doubt on fossil fuel’s place in energy transition

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Since the first cargo of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) left a terminal on the Gulf of Mexico bound for Brazil in February 2016, US exports…

How semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology