WEIRD SCIENCE
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood. María Paternina-Die, CC BY-ND – By Darby Saxbe, Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and by Magdalena Martínez García, Doctoral Student of Neuroimaging, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio …
The device is designed to augment Kangaroo Mother Care, a practice which involves chest-to-chest skin contact between an infant and a caregiver. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Jun 10 – For low-birth-weight (LBW) babies, skin-to-skin contact with their mother can literally be a …
MagicBloods/Shutterstock – By Eloise Stevens, Host, The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast Published: 2024 Jun 02 – Have you ever wondered how chameleons change color? And can they do this while they’re asleep? What about if they are able to dream? Does their dream …
Drops of insulin placed under the tongue could be a new alternative to injections for diabetics. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Jun 07 – Diabetics sick of daily injections may have renewed hope for a less invasive alternative. Scientists at the University of …
Prepare No Normal tubed coffee paste with the usual camp coffee gear, or with nothing more than a squeeze of the tube. No Normal Coffee – By C.C. Weiss 2024 Jun 06 – There’s no shortage of ways to get your coffee fix, even …
High hopes for the use of dostarlimab-gxly in successfully ‘reversing’ a type of colorectal cancer, with hopes it will be able to target other forms. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 Jun 05 – In what researchers have called an “unprecedented” response, a new …
Combining a new melanoma vaccine with an existing drug significantly reduced the risk of the cancer recurring. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Jun 03 Results from human trials coupling a new melanoma vaccine with an existing cancer drug showed that, at the three-year …
Protein wave oscillations open a window into living cells. Scott Coyle and Rohith Rajasekaran, CC BY-ND – By Scott Coyle, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Published: 2024 May 31 – Waves are ubiquitous in nature and technology. Whether it’s the rise and …
If your data was used to train an AI, it might – or might not – be safe from prying eyes. ValeryBrozhinsky/iStock via Getty Images – By Jordan Awan, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue University Published: 2024 May 23 – Machine learning has pushed …
A next-gen antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria while leaving good gut bacteria intact. Depositphotos – Antibiotics kill disease-causing bacteria as well as the beneficial ones living in our gut, disturbing the health-maintaining microbiome. A new antibiotic specifically targets hard-to-kill bacteria while leaving our good …
