An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA – By James L. Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury Published: 2024 Oct 03 – The ancient …
This shows how the I-Xray software works, from capturing the image to aggregating the data. AnhPhu Nguyen – By Joe Salas 2024 Oct 02 – In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 …
Steam billows from two cooling towers serving Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 2005. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster – By Todd Allen, Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan Published: 2024 Sep 27 – Constellation, an energy …
A patient has been functionally cured of type 1 diabetes with a new stem cell therapy. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Sep 30 – A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over …
Today’s AI models, pictured here using generative tools, are infants – and their understanding of truth is being held back by the human thinking and language they’re trained on. – By Loz Blain 2024 Sep 29 – AIs have a big problem with truth and …
Prenatal supplements are not the insurance plan that many doctors believe them to be. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images – By Mary Scourboutakos, Family Medicine Resident and Nutrition Expert, Eastern Virginia Medical School Published: 2024 Jun 03, Updated: 2024 Jun 04 – If …
Nearly 60% of respondents to one medical school survey said they received no nutritional education at all. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images – By Nathaniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Dakota and by Madeline Comeau, Medical …
Scientists have finally discovered just how static electricity works – and cats are particularly good at creating it. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 Sep 26 – Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates …
Once squirted into the nose, the spray forms a gel (blue) that traps and neutralizes microbes. Randal McKenzie, McKenzie Illustrations – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Sep 25 – Nobody wants to get a respiratory infection such as COVID-19 or the flu, but vaccines aren’t …
Changing the position of defibrillator pads could improve survival rates after a cardiac arrest. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Sep 24 – Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the …
