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Groundbreaking research quantifies the health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels
Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected to dial down.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 4, 2022


MIT researchers sent the first quantum signal ever through a wormhole
Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics lead work on testing quantum gravity on a quantum processor.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 4, 2022


The real bias in news coverage is not what you might think, study finds
Researchers compared the two cable news networks using natural language analysis by quantifying key psychosocial and sociopolitical markers
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


A self-powered ingestible sensor will revolutionize gut health
Engineering researchers have developed a battery-free, pill-shaped ingestible biosensing system designed to provide continuous monitoring.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


8-year-old boy upends a century of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
Team revealed a much more complex type of myrmecochory that combined the wasp-oak gall interaction with the edible appendage-ant interaction
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


Single injection can reverse paralysis in severe spinal cord injury patients
In a new study, researchers have developed a new injectable therapy to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


Deep-learning AI system revolutionizes breast cancer treatment
AI can assist in making or verifying a diagnosis, it can help match the treatment to the individual patient, it can offer a prognosis.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


Alzheimer's patients benefit significantly from 40 Hz sensory stimulation
The therapy was well tolerated, produced no serious adverse effects and was associated with some significant neurological benefits.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022


Groundbreaking study points to an effective cure for brain cancer
These findings provide a promising basis for developing effective medications for glioblastoma, an aggressive, and thus far incurable cancer
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Groundbreaking pill can deliver the same results as physical exercise
New research could hold the key to developing a supplement capable of administering the health benefits of exercise to patients.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Researchers make a breakthrough in the ability to move things with our minds
A joint team of scientists have advanced the first step towards real-time, remote and wireless mind control of metamaterials.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Scientists identify sleep habits that significantly increase dementia risk
The link between sleep problems and dementia has, however, been found to be inconsistent in population-based studies, the researchers said.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Scientists alter fentanyl to make it less lethal, less addictive
Study indicates that the modified drug still is an effective pain reliever but likely doesn’t have as many potentially deadly side effects.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Study identifies why Alzheimer’s disease only damages certain parts of the brain
Memory loss is often the first sign of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by confusion and difficulty thinking. It comes down to the gene APOE.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Turning wastewater into fertilizer is feasible and will make agriculture more sustainable
The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage sludge has the potential to play a role in more sustainable agriculture.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 2, 2022


Revolutionary engine generates electricity from heat with no moving parts
Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency a performance better than steam turbines.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 1, 2022


White Graphene nanotubes will revolutionize the world
A single-atom-thin material that has been coined “white graphene” for its transparent appearance and its similarity to carbon-based graphene
Joseph Shavit
Dec 1, 2022


All life in our solar system may have begun on Mars
When Mars was a young planet, it was bombarded by ice asteroids delivering water and organic molecules necessary for life to emerge.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 1, 2022


Breakthrough robotic pill makes insulin injections obsolete
One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 1, 2022


Groundbreaking muscle discovery burns fat and increases metabolism while sitting
The soleus, one of 600 muscles in the human body, is a posterior leg muscle that runs from just below the knee to the heel.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 1, 2022
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