Antidepressants prescription associated with a lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has found that community mental health patients who were prescribed…

Hiker finds Bronze Age pictographs in Norway |

A hiker has discovered a collection of pictographs in Norway’s Østfold region. The discovery was made by Tormod Fjeld who noticed mysterious shades of colour in a rockface where he…

Directly imaging quantum states in two-dimensional materials

Left, ultrafast light pulses excite and probe a tiny sample of WS2 one layer of atoms thick, emitting electrons that are collected by a new detector called a momentum microscope.…

Utilizing electron spin for faster charging, higher capacity batteries

Credit: POSTECH Charging an electric vehicle usually takes about 10 hours or longer, and even with fast-charging methods, it takes at least 30 minutes. That is assuming there is an…

Heart Beats and Minds Meet: Your Heart Influences Your Gut Instinct

Summary: Our hearts play a surprising role in shaping how suggestible we are to others’ opinions. The research indicates that evaluating an event during a heartbeat might lead individuals to…

Exploring Stephan’s Quintet with multiple senses

Take a multiwavelength tour of Stephan’s Quintet, learning how we study the same object with different wavelengths of light. When combined, telescopes’ observations can provide different information and clues about…

Social Isolation’s Health Implications: Unmasking the Mortality Risks of Loneliness

Summary: A comprehensive study underscores the alarming link between social isolation, loneliness, and heightened mortality risks. The meta-analysis, involving over two million participants, found a significant increase in all-cause mortality…

Lasers enable internet backbone via satellite, may soon eliminate need for deep-sea cables

The researchers tested data transmission by laser over 53 kilometres from the Jungfraujoch to Zimmerwald near Bern. Credit: ETH Zurich Optical data communications lasers can transmit several tens of terabits…

Small sensor ‘smells’ incipient seizures

A Sandia National Laboratories researcher works on a miniaturized sensor system able to detect specific gases warning of an impending seizure. Credit: Craig Fritz In people with epilepsy, seizure-alert dogs…

Argentina launches gas pipeline with overwhelming political support

Argentina’s political class is promoting fossil fuels as a patriotic national endeavour and demonising any environmentalists who oppose them Argentina’s national oil company has begun to fill up a key…