New treatment for postpartum depression offers hope, but the stigma attached to the condition still lingers

Postpartum depression can affect anyone, and it often sneaks in quietly, like a shadow in the corners of a new mother’s life. It presents significant challenges for around 1 in…

Manipulating nonlinear exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor with artificial potential landscapes

Newswise — Exciton polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles caused by the strong exciton-photon coupling, constitute a unique prototype for studying many-body physics and quantum photonic phenomena traditionally in cryogenic conditions. Atomically thin…

China’s clean energy program Belt and Road gets ‘green’ reboot

Clean energy is a priority as China promises $100 billion of development funding – but don’t call it climate finance China has raised clean energy among the priorities of its…

Phonon engineering in Yb:La2CaB10O19 crystal for extended lasing beyond the fluorescence spectrum

Newswise — Electron and phonon are two fundamental particles (quasi-particles) of condensed matter and their interplay in single crystals can create many interesting physical phenomena, such as polariton, charge density…

HP, Qualcomm Aim To Prove the Best Defense Is a Great Offense

HP and Qualcomm, like much of the tech industry, currently find themselves in the doldrums for distinct reasons. HP, a stalwart in the PC and printer market, has continued to…

A Hebbian memory that achieves human-like results on sequential processing tasks

Figure summarizing the ‘remind’ process. Credit: Sangjun Park & JinYeong Bak. Transformers are machine learning models designed to uncover and track patterns in sequential data, such as text sequences. In…

Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk

Credit: CC0 Public Domain People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat…

Clouds of Tiny Quartz Crystals Fill Skies of Searing-hot Exoplanet

This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Quartz, also known as silica, exists everywhere: in beach sands,…

How octopi can edit their own RNA to rapidly respond to environmental changes

New study sheds light on long term effectiveness and safety of two widely used statins

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two widely used statins, rosuvastatin and atorvastatin, are equally effective at preventing heart attacks, strokes and death in people with coronary artery disease. But while rosuvastatin…