Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smoking in pregnancy can harm developing babies, especially their growth. Current guidelines recommend that pregnant smokers who find quitting difficult should be provided with nicotine replacements…
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Drinking kombucha may reduce blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, pilot trial suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with type 2 diabetes who drank the fermented tea drink kombucha for four weeks had lower fasting blood glucose levels compared to when they consumed…
Personal Music Choices Enhance Fitness Experiences
Summary: Personal music selection significantly improves the motivation, emotional response, and satisfaction of gym-goers. Participants choosing their own music were found to be more motivated compared to those for whom…
Rare Roman steelyard beam found at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall |
Archaeologists excavating at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall have discovered a rare Roman steelyard beam. Milecastle 46 was a small fortlet north of Magna (Carvoran Roman Fort) on Hadrian’s Wall,…
AI vs Human Reasoning: GPT-3 Matches College Undergraduates
Summary: In an eye-opening study, researcher revealed GPT-3, a popular artificial intelligence language model, performs comparably to college undergraduates in solving reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and…
Research offers solutions through machine learning, blockchain
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Time is of the essence as a deluge of updates spreads across the internet and social media feeds. Members of the public are eager to find…
School meals would be even healthier if compliant with US nutrition standards, study finds
Estimated deaths prevented and health care-related cost savings later in adulthood associated with implementation of the 2020 DGA-aligned school meal standards in the United States, by dietary factors. Note: Bars…
Big improvements in new probe design for smokestack emission monitoring
The NIST pitot tube (top) has a hemispherical face with five ports used to measure gas flows in three dimensions, which gives it a better ability to measure complex flows…
Optimizing heat exchange flow in microgravity
Interior of CM-HT test section: Test fluid (normal perfluoro hexane or nPFH) is vaporized and pumped through the steel tube embedded in an insulating material section at the entrance and…
Bronze Age arrowhead made of meteoritic iron identified by study |
A study of archaeological collections from the greater area of Lake Biel in Switzerland has revealed that a Bronze Age arrowhead housed in the Bern History Museum was made from…
