The combination of two brain waves, called sleep spindles and slow waves, predict an increase in the body’s sensitivity to the hormone called insulin, which consequentially and beneficially lowers blood…
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Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, researchers find
Scientists grew human gastric organoids from stomach cells in a laboratory for two years, tracing patterns of genetic changes associated with pre-cancer. Credit: Wing Wong Cancer cells-to-be accumulate a series…
Bilateral total knee arthroplasty linked to increased complication rates
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients undergoing bilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are at an increased risk of several types of complications, as compared with matched patients undergoing unilateral TKA, reports…
Origins of Merging Black Holes in Galaxies Like Our Own
Stellar-mass black holes are celestial objects born from the collapse of stars with masses of a few to low hundreds of times that of our sun. Their gravitational field is…
Antarctic Experiment Maps the Milky Way Galaxy’s High-Energy Neutrinos
IceCube, an Antarctic telescope, has directly observed neutrinos, hard-to-detect subatomic particles, coming from our own galaxy, the Milky Way. For as long as humans have existed, we’ve been able to…
Pulsars: New Access to the Universe
Precise as a clock: pulsars in the Milky Way form large-scale observatory for gravitational waves. Astronomical observatories are usually based on Earth and study the extreme processes in the universe…
Engraved relief could reveal the lost name of the Maya city at Ocomtún |
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have uncovered an engraved relief at Ocomtún in the Mexican state of Campeche. Ocomtún, meaning “stone column”, is a Maya…
Nuclear Charge Distribution Measurements May Solve Outstanding Puzzle In Particle Physics
The Science What scientists call the “nuclear weak distribution” describes the distribution of “active” protons in a nucleus. These are protons that are eligible to transition into neutrons through what scientists call the “weak interaction.”…
Master Your Breath, Master Your Health: The Transformative Power of Controlled Breathing
Summary: Breathing, an autonomous function, also possesses a feature unique to a few bodily activities: we can control it. According to research, controlled breathing stimulates the nervous and cardiovascular systems,…
Study finds NPP-billed imaging increased 27% from 2016–2020
by Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by the Harvey L Neiman Health Policy Institute found that rates of diagnostic imaging interpretation by…
