These snails give live birth, and it’s the babies that may do the labor

The oddball minority of animals that don’t lay eggs includes a tough little snail called a rough periwinkle. Unlike mammals giving birth to kittens and fawns and helpless little humans,…

Scientists Reveal New Images of a Black Hole – Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) researchers published the first image of a black hole and its shadow in 2019, showing a bright ring with a dark circular area in the…

1 in 6 parents say they probably wouldn’t know if teens were betting online

Most parents worry about online betting putting young people at risk of going into debt or developing a gambling addiction. Credit: University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National…

Filling the gaps of what we know about the first days and weeks of the developing human embryo

User experience was the innovation that launched a technology revolution

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right? Well, yes. And no. As the Apple Macintosh turns 40, what began as Apple prioritizing the squishy concept…

New criteria for sepsis in children based on organ dysfunction

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago were among a diverse, international group of experts tasked by the Society of Critical Care…

Finally, the edge of the universe and beyond

Deep field. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI Launched in 2021 on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex, precise and powerful space observatory ever built. The…

A cation replacement method to realize highly preforming electrolytes for multivalent metal batteries

Excessive social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated adolescent mental health challenges

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How does time spent online, and especially social media, affect the brains and behaviors of children and youth? Social media platforms are seemingly designed to capture…

Study shows a computerized decision support system reduces high-risk drug combinations in ICU patients

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A multicenter study led by Amsterdam UMC and conducted in nine Dutch Intensive Care Units (ICUs) has shown that tailoring a computerized decision support system (CDSS)…