• Ketones may enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks

    Updated: 2024-05-31 17:10:15
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Ketones may enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks May 31, 2024 University of Rochester From left : Siddharth Chittaranjan , Nathan A . Smith , MS , PhD , Tracy Bubel , MS , and Bartosz Kula , PhD , who is the first author of this research paper . As we age our brain naturally becomes more insulin resistant . This creates a breakdown in communication between neurons , causing symptoms like changes in mood , cognitive decline , and eventually neurodegeneration.  Nathan A . Smith , MS , PhD 13 associate professor of Neuroscience , and fellow researchers studied the mechanisms in the brain that break down when insulin resistance is suddenly present , like in trauma , but

  • Nearly One-Third of U.S Adults Know Someone Who’s Died of Drug Overdose

    Updated: 2024-05-31 17:07:40
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Nearly One-Third of U.S Adults Know Someone Who†s Died of Drug Overdose May 31, 2024 Johns Hopkins Losing a loved one to drug overdose has been a common experience for many Americans in recent years , crossing political and socioeconomic divides and boosting the perceived importance of the overdose crisis as a policy issue , according to a new survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public . Health A nationally representative survey of more than 2,300 Americans , fielded in spring 2023, suggests that 32 percent of the U.S . adult population , or an estimated 82.7 million individuals , has lost someone they know to a fatal drug overdose . For nearly one-fifth of

  • Clues to mysterious disappearance of North America’s large mammals 50,000 years ago found within ancient bone collagen

    Updated: 2024-05-31 17:05:18
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Clues to mysterious disappearance of North America†s large mammals 50,000 years ago found within ancient bone collagen May 31, 2024 Frontiers In USNM 23792, Mammuthus primigenius , or Woolly Mammoth composite Department of Paleobiology , Smithsonian Institution . Fifty thousand years ago , North America was a land of giants . Mammoths , mastodons , saber-toothed tigers , and enormous wolves roamed the continent , sharing the landscape with towering camels , giant beavers , and immense ground sloths . But as the Last Ice Age drew to a close , most of these magnificent creatures vanished , leaving behind a mystery that has puzzled scientists for . decades The debate over what caused the

  • Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Self-Interacting in Massive Galaxy Cluster Collisions

    Updated: 2024-05-31 17:03:13
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Self-Interacting in Massive Galaxy Cluster Collisions May 31, 2024 SISSA A recent study published in Astronomy Astrophysics” A A by Riccardo Valdarnini of SISSA’s Astrophysics and Cosmology group challenges the standard model’s view that dark matter is . non-interacting Through numerical simulations , Valdarnini analyzed the behavior of dark matter within El Gordo , 8221 a giant cluster merger located seven billion light years away . The results indicate that the observed physical separation between the points of maximum density of dark matter and those of other mass components in this cluster can be explained using the Self-Interacting Dark Matter SIDM

  • Lucy Spacecraft Discovers Unexpected Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid Dinkinesh

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:52:46
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Lucy Spacecraft Discovers Unexpected Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid Dinkinesh May 31, 2024 University of Maryland Panels a , b , and c each show stereographic image pairs of the asteroid Dinkinesh taken by the NASA Lucy Spacecraft†s L†LORRI Instrument in the minutes around closest approach on Nov . 1, 2023. The yellow and rose dots indicate the trough and ridge features , respectively . These images have been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast . Panel d shows a side view of Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam taken a few minutes after closest approach . Credit : NASA SwRI Johns Hopkins APL . NOIRLab NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has made a surprising discovery during its flyby of

  • New Dinosaur Species Discovered on the Shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:50:10
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search New Dinosaur Species Discovered on the Shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe May 31, 2024 University of the Witwatersrand Artist reconstruction of Musankwa sanyatiensis , walking in Triassic shallow waters past a metoposaur . A team of international scientists has unearthed a new dinosaur species , Musankwa sanyatiensis , on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe . This remarkable discovery , set to be published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica , marks only the fourth dinosaur species named from the country and the first from the Mid-Zambezi Basin in over half a . century The fossils , dating back approximately 210 million years to the Late Triassic period , consist of a single

  • Astronomers Uncover Surprisingly Massive Galaxy from the Dawn of the Universe

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:46:37
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Astronomers Uncover Surprisingly Massive Galaxy from the Dawn of the Universe May 31, 2024 NASA JPL This infrared image from NASA†s James Webb Space Telescope JWST was captured by its Near-Infrared Camera NIRCam for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey JADES program . NIRCam data helped identify galaxies for further spectroscopic study . One such galaxy , JADES-GS-z14-0 highlighted in the pullout was found to be at a redshift of 14.32 0.08 0.20 making it the most distant known galaxy , seen less than 300 million years after the Big Bang . In the main image , blue represents light at 0.9, 1.15, and 1.5 microns filters F090W , F115W , and F150W green represents 2.0 and 2.77 microns

  • Innovative bird-eye-inspired camera developed for enhanced object detection

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:44:19
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Innovative bird-eye-inspired camera developed for enhanced object detection May 31, 2024 Institute for Basic Science Structures and functions of bird†s eye . a Bird vision . b Deep central fovea and four types of cones . c Foveated vision and tetrachromatic vision . Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science IBS and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology GIST have developed a new type of camera that draws inspiration from the unique structures and functions of bird eyes . The perovskite-based camera , designed to specialize in object detection , incorporates an artificial fovea and a multispectral image sensor that responds to both ultraviolet UV and visible light red ,

  • Menstrual Cycles Starting Earlier and Taking Longer to Regulate

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:41:09
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Menstrual Cycles Starting Earlier and Taking Longer to Regulate May 31, 2024 Harvard University A new study from the Harvard T.H . Chan School of Public Health , the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences , and Apple has revealed that the average age at which girls in the United States begin menstruating has been decreasing over the past several . decades The study , which analyzed data from more than 71,000 participants in the Apple Women’s Health Study , also found that the time it takes for menstrual cycles to become regular is increasing , with these trends being most pronounced among racial minorities and those from lower socioeconomic . backgrounds The study , published

  • Infants hear significantly more speech than music at home

    Updated: 2024-05-31 13:38:05
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Infants hear significantly more speech than music at home May 31, 2024 University of Washington Speech and music are the dominant elements of an infant†s auditory environment . While past research has shown that speech plays a critical role in children†s language development , less is known about the music that infants . hear A new University of Washington study , published May 21 in  Developmental Science is the first to compare the amount of music and speech that children hear in infancy . Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music , with the gap widening as the babies get . older “We wanted to get a snapshot of what†s happening in infants†home

  • Transparent Skull Implant Enables High-Resolution Brain Imaging in Awake Patients

    Updated: 2024-05-30 14:17:34
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Transparent Skull Implant Enables High-Resolution Brain Imaging in Awake Patients May 30, 2024 USC Clear experimental skull implant may enable functional ultrasound imaging of the brain for patients with serious head injuries . Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology Caltech have designed and implanted a transparent window in the skull of a patient , allowing them to collect high-resolution brain imaging data using functional ultrasound imaging fUSI The preliminary findings , published in the journal Science Translational Medicine , suggest that this sensitive , non-invasive approach could open new avenues for patient monitoring ,

  • Public have no difficulty getting to grips with an extra thumb, study finds

    Updated: 2024-05-30 14:14:59
    , Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Public have no difficulty getting to grips with an extra thumb , study finds May 30, 2024 University of Cambridge The Third Thumb helping the user to open a bottle Cambridge researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable , prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate . objects The team tested the robotic device on a diverse range of participants , which they say is essential for ensuring new technologies are inclusive and can work for . everyone An emerging area of future technology is motor augmentation – using motorised wearable devices such as exoskeletons or extra robotic body parts

  • Babies’ Babbling Reveals Patterns of Vocal Play and Practice

    Updated: 2024-05-30 14:13:55
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Babies’ Babbling Reveals Patterns of Vocal Play and Practice May 30, 2024 PLOS ONE Wearable digital recording devices are used to capture day-long home audio recordings of each infant's natural language environment . Babies spend a significant portion of their first year making noises , from responding to caregivers with vocalizations to engaging in self-directed . babbling A new study , published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE suggests that these seemingly random noises may actually be part of a deliberate process of vocal play and practice . Researchers Hyunjoo Yoo from the University of Alabama , Pumpki Lei Su from the University of Texas at Dallas , and their colleagues analyzed

  • Study shows unexpected pockets of biodiversity pepper Los Angeles

    Updated: 2024-05-30 14:11:35
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Study shows unexpected pockets of biodiversity pepper Los Angeles May 30, 2024 UCLA UCLA biologists have some good news and some bad news for lovers of urban wildlife in Los Angeles . The good news Unexpected pockets of biodiversity pepper the city . The bad news It will be a challenge to elevate the level of overall biodiversity of the city . Of all the major taxonomic groups studied , only snails and slugs are ‘easy†to find in Los Angeles , probably because of the abundance of landscaping , gardens and . irrigation The research points toward ways Angelenos — and people elsewhere — can make their city more hospitable not only to urban-tolerant species such as coyotes , but also to

  • Urban office buildings pump out volatile chemicals to the outdoors, comparable to traffic emissions

    Updated: 2024-05-30 14:09:56
    , Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Urban office buildings pump out volatile chemicals to the outdoors , comparable to traffic emissions May 30, 2024 Purdue University Brandon Boor , a Purdue associate professor of civil engineering , studies indoor air quality . The air coming out of office buildings in urban areas may be more polluted than once believed , Purdue University researchers . say A research team led by  Brandon Boor associate professor in the  Lyles School of Civil Engineering   published a new study in the journal  Cell Reports Sustainability  that states modern buildings continually release volatile organic compounds VOCs to outdoor air and are likely to be an important contributor to the VOC burden of

  • New technique offers more precise maps of the Moon’s surface

    Updated: 2024-05-30 13:57:56
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search New technique offers more precise maps of the Moon†s surface May 30, 2024 Brown University Pre-existing models for the Ina irregular mare patch A , C , D compared to more detailed and sharper shape-from-shading models from the study B , E A new study by Brown University researchers may help redefine how scientists map the surface of the Moon , making the process more streamlined and precise than ever . before Published in the  Planetary Science Journal the research by Brown scholars Benjamin Boatwright and James Head describes enhancements to a mapping technique called shape-from-shading . The technique is used to create detailed models of lunar terrain , outlining craters , ridges ,

  • Medicated foam could make gene therapies more accessible

    Updated: 2024-05-30 13:55:09
    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Medicated foam could make gene therapies more accessible May 30, 2024 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Professor Matthias Stephan working in his lab , May 17, 2024, in Seattle , . Washington Foam mixed with medications is already used to treat conditions such as varicose veins , hemorrhoids , wounds on the skin and even hair loss . Now , Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists have found that foam might also be used as a vehicle to deliver expensive gene . therapies Published May 28 in   Nature Communications bioengineer  Matthias Stephan , MD , PhD and his Fred Hutch team report that a foaming liquid worked better than a standard liquid formulation at transferring gene therapy components to

  • Cheap, dirty leftovers can produce pure oxygen

    Updated: 2024-05-30 13:51:02
    , Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Cheap , dirty leftovers can produce pure oxygen May 30, 2024 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Frida Hemstad Danmo with a material that seems promising for producing oxygen cheaply . New materials for producing oxygen may challenge traditional production methods . This is exciting news , because pure oxygen is in demand from many areas in industry and . medicine “We have identified materials that can store and release pure oxygen much faster and at much lower temperatures than known materials currently used for this purpose,” says Professor Sverre Magnus Selbach at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU†s Department of Materials Science and .

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