WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images – By Virginia Singla, Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Published: 2023 Dec 11 – Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady …
A solidified sono-ink structure (red) printed inside a heart model. Alex Sánchez, Duke University; Junjie Yao, Duke University; Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School – By Ben Coxworth 2023 Dec 08 – In order to keep surgeries minimally invasive, it would be great if …
Many modern cars watch occupants – a plus for safety but not so much for privacy. Courtesy LG – By M. Hadi Amini, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University Published: 2023 Dec 06 – Depending on which late-model vehicle …
Voters in a county election, 1854. Etching by John Sartain after painting by George Caleb Bingham; National Gallery of Art – By Thomas Coens, Research Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee Published: 2023 Dec 05 – From the time of the founding …
The plant-based diet came out well ahead of a healthy omnivore eating plan. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Dec 03 – The fact that eating less meat improves cardiovascular health is not a new revelation, but previous studies supporting this have often been …
If the new E-AB biosensor reaches production, painful finger-prick tests like these may no longer be necessary. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2023 Nov 30 – Daily finger-prick blood tests are an uncomfortable fact of life for diabetics, but they may not always have …
Possessing certain personality traits increases the risk of a dementia diagnosis, while others lessen it, research has found. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2023 Nov 30 – New research has found that some personality traits increase the risk of a dementia diagnosis, whereas others …
President Richard Nixon, left, speaks with national security adviser Henry Kissinger at the White House in September 1972. AP Photo – By Jarrod Hayes’ Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell Published: 2022 Dec 14, Updated: 2023 Nov 29 – Henry Kissinger, who …
Exposing male rats to simulated deep space travel led to long-lasting erectile dysfunction. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2023 Nov 26 – Adding to the growing research into the effects of long-haul spaceflights on the human body, researchers have found that the weightlessness and …
The AI most likely to cause you harm is not some malevolent superintelligence, but the loan algorithm at your bank. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey – By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University Published: 2023 Nov 21 – The turmoil at ChatGPT-maker …
