Mind Over Matter: Perception of Time Influences Wound Healing

Summary: Perceived time significantly impacts the healing of physical wounds. Researchers found wounds healed faster when participants believed more time had passed, challenging conventional beliefs about psychological effects on physical…

Here’s what AI will bring in 2024

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If 2023 was the year that AI finally broke into the mainstream, 2024 could be the year it gets fully enmeshed in our lives—or the year…

Harnessing quantum measurement and feedback

by Uthpala N. Ekanayake and Malin Premaratne

Better Cyber Coexistence, Productivity, Privacy

A scant three years ago, I wrote a tech trends article for TechNewsWorld with a headline that posed an insightful question in anticipation of the new year. I asked, “Is…

Ant face patterns like swirls and stubble might have practical value

National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From…

China’s Baidu cancels $3.6 bn purchase of livestreaming site

Baidu said it had not yet received government approval for the purchase of YY Live. Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it was cancelling the planned multi-billion-dollar purchase of livestreaming…

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

The Webb telescope has opened a new window into the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Scientists have been…

A New Way to Characterize Habitable Planets

For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of…

Understanding the downstream procedures and complications associated with lung cancer screening

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study of more than 9,000 persons screened for lung cancer found that rates of downstream procedures and complications associated with screening are substantially higher in…

New protein risk score shows strong clinical utility for predicting death from heart failure

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new protein risk score developed to predict the risk of death for persons with heart failure (HF) has demonstrated good calibration and may help clinicians…