Day July 28, 2024

Panamanian gymnast Hillary Heron stretches as she trains for the Olympics at the No Limits Gymnastics Center in Panama City, Saturday, June 15, 2024, ahead of the Games in Paris. Stretching can help make you more flexible, improve range of…

You know that nail salon smell? That sharp hit of chemicals, the strangely sweet scent of polish, the faint tingle in your nose? That’s air pollution, and it’s been linked to a variety of health effects experienced by the workers…

Periods of extreme heat—even a single day when the thermometer hits 35°C—are associated with increased risk of injury, hospitalization and death. When the body gets too hot, the heart and kidneys don’t function properly. This physiological response to heat can…

Computer-generated image of non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteria. Credit: James Archer, Medical Illustrator, Courtesy of CDC/ Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit In the early 1900s, a cook named Mary Mallon, better known as “Typhoid Mary,” spread Salmonella Typhi, the causative agent…

Researchers at the University of Delaware are looking at how plants grown in space are more prone to infections of Salmonella compared to plants not grown in space or grown under gravity simulations. Credit: Evan Krape / University of Delaware…

Eating a vegan diet for eight weeks is associated with reductions in biological age estimations based on levels of DNA methylation—a type of chemical modification of DNA (known as an epigenetic modification) that alters gene expression but not DNA itself.…

It turns out there might be a scientific reason behind women needing extra “beauty sleep.” Studies show, on average, women require about 11 minutes more sleep per night than men do. Although this difference might seem small, it can have…

Stepping inside Erin Adams’ lab at the University of Chicago is a bit overstimulating. Adams’ work centers on molecular immunology. As the Joseph Regenstein Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and vice provost for research, she researches the molecular signals…

Images of RNA on neutrophil cell surface. Green color is RNA, whereas blue color is the nucleus. Credit: Ningning Zhang Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are the ultimate cellular insiders. They perform several critical jobs, such as ferrying genetic instructions from a…

A surface acoustic wave launched by an interdigital transducer ripples the surface of the biosensor, confining light at the nanoscale to make it interact more efficiently with the molecules. Credit: Jorge Pedrós, Raúl Izquierdo (UPM) and Enrique Sahagún (Scixel) A…

Organizational leaders may benefit from operating more like a jazz ensemble during crises in order to utilize their resources in unconventional ways, according to new research from Rice University. “When a crisis hits, getting jazzy will help leaders in any…

Credit: Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice/University of Pennsylvania A new research report providing the first-ever comprehensive analysis of presumptive drug field test usage across law enforcement agencies in the United States has been released by the Quattrone…

Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich from Pexels Researchers in Australia have found that when women are given accurate information about a test that indicates the number of eggs in their ovaries, they have less interest in taking the test compared to women…

Many people with stage II or III colon cancer receive additional, or adjuvant, chemotherapy following surgery. However, clinical trials have shown that this treatment doesn’t improve the chances of survival for every patient. A study published July 25 in Cell…

Low-income communities are up to 42% less likely to obtain stroke center certification. Hospitals in poor communities are significantly less likely to obtain certification for stroke services, which makes them unable to provide urgent, lifesaving treatment, UC San Francisco researchers…

When Ralda Nehme, a cell biologist and neuroscientist, first started her lab at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2018, she realized a gap in the field. She was adept at…

Tiffany McAllister and Andres Bernal try to rebook their flight to Iowa while at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Friday, July 19, 2024, as a major internet outage disrupts flights, banks, media outlets and companies across the world. Credit:…

Big tech companies are increasingly in the spotlight for their appetite to eat up smaller firms, prompting some concerns in Silicon Valley. It’s the case of the vanishing startup: some of Silicon Valley’s most promising names in the fast-developing generative…

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that making the tech giant’s AI software open to outside developers helps guard against the technology being limited to powerful companies or nations. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta,…

Credit: Yale University Self-amputation may seem like a drastic move, but it’s a survival tactic that’s proved particularly handy for numerous creatures. Yale roboticists have drawn inspiration from lizards, crabs, and other animals who shed parts of themselves without looking…

The high-level description of the feedback mechanism in the learning process. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07566-y Using AI-generated datasets to train future generations of machine learning models may pollute their output, a concept known as model collapse, according to a…

Credit: University of Sheffield A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield. Reported in Science Robotics and developed by Dr. Marco Pontin and Dr. Dana…

The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a “secret grip” on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day “of the average guy” from the…

MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and Niko Tsakiris (right) work on a new hydrogen reactor, designed to produce hydrogen gas by mixing aluminum pellets with seawater. Credit: Tony Pulsone A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda…

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong. More than 10 billion barcodes…

VR Set up. Top left: HDV. Top right: illustration of the road environment in VR. Bottom left: the second AV is equipped with two vertical blue light bands serving as eHMI. Bottom right: AV, no eHMI. Credit: Transportation Research Part…

Brand ads on Google are not effective for advertisers, a new study finds, but Google’s place in the market means advertisers still need to buy in. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University If you use Google—and chances are you do—then you’re used…

SAG-AFTRA captains Iris Liu, left, and Miki Yamashita, center, and SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland lead a cheer for striking actors outside Paramount Pictures studio, Nov. 3, 2023, in Los Angeles. While negotiators with SAG-AFTRA have made gains in bargaining…

The US Senate will vote on a pair of bills this week designed to protect children online which would be the first major legislation targeting the tech industry in a generation. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that…

SimPLE can transform unstructured arrangements of objects (i.e., laying arbitrarily on the table) into structured arrangements where the object configurations are known accurately (i.e., onto black pedestals in this image) by performing precise pick-and-place. This is a fundamental task in…

Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI)—from the development of the first “social robots” (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with humans) like Kismet in the 1990s to smart speakers such as…