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Live Music-Assisted Relaxation Benefits Pancreatic Surgery Patients

Study Shows Cultural Background Impact on Mental Health Care Decision-Making

Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Predicting Benefits of Checkpoint Blockade

Study Reveals Improved Heart Transplant Survival in Nordic Kids

Deciphering How Fly Brain Filters Visual Information During Sleep

New Research Challenges Universality of Inflammaging

New Study Reveals Insights on Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

Metabolic Syndrome Linked to Higher Parkinson's Risk

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in BBB Linked to DiGeorge Syndrome

Study Reveals Daily Movement's Impact on Cardiovascular Health

Breakthrough Collaboration in Disease Classification

Home Covid-19 Tests vs. PCR: Accuracy and Speed

New Bird Flu Vaccine Developed by Texas Biomedical Researchers

Study Reveals 10% of Sepsis Patients Were Previously Healthy

Nfl Study: Wide Receivers, Tight Ends Face Acl Injury Risk

Global Impact: Stress Linked to Rising Mental Disorders

Polymer Material for Artificial Heart Valve Deemed Safe

Shift Mental Health Advice: Focus on Halting Harmful Habits

"Secrets to Aging Gracefully Unveiled: Why Some Thrive, Others Struggle"

Brazilian Researchers Develop Safe and Effective Zika Vaccine

Uncovering Immune Cell Peacekeeping Mechanisms

Study Challenges Multiple Sclerosis Subtypes Model

Why Significant Learning Experiences Stick Better Than Everyday Events

Study Shows Free Confidential Contraception Boosts Usage

Eyewitness Misidentification: A Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions

Study Reveals Lack of Testing for Portable Air Cleaners

Novel Imaging Approach Tracks Tirzepatide Interaction

Breakthrough Cancer Drug Induces Cell Death in Small Cell Lung Cancer

Legacy of Redlining Linked to Youth Injuries

Cancer Cells Break Nerve Covers, Triggering Chronic Inflammation

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Ozone Changes to Accelerate Global Warming

Experts Argue for Accountability in Ecocide Cases

"International Team Reveals XRISM Discovery of Black Hole X-ray Binary"

Novel Method for High-Entropy Alloy Films Without Expensive Targets

NASA's Chandra X-ray Image Reveals Hand-Shaped Pulsar

Parisians Anticipate Seine River Swim at 2024 Olympics

Ceres Reveals Potential for Microbial Life

Study Challenges Origins of Urban Civilization in Mesopotamia

Thawing Permafrost: Microbes Stabilize Soil Carbon

Improving Inhaled Medications: Role of Carrier Particles

Universe's Vast Bodies: Sun vs. Stars

Study Reveals Link Between Germline and Somatic Mutation Rates

Morning Hair-Care Routine Exposes to Nanoparticle Pollution

Engineers Pursue Efficient Silicon Chip Lasers

Biological Rhythm in Speech: A Study Reveals Natural Flow

Biology and Quantum Technology: Unlikely Compatibility

Geologists' Time-Consuming Puzzle: Mineral Identification Process

Transition to Agriculture in Europe: Hunter-Gatherers and Anatolian Farmers

Rare Western Santa Cruz Tortoises: 16 Newborns Steal Spotlight

Victims of Coerced Medical Research in Nazi Germany

Channel Islands Foxes Evolve Larger Brains Than Mainland Cousins

Importance of Isolated Spins for Quantum Computing

Federal Lands: Impact of Coal Extraction on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Centuries of Trans-Pacific Trade Influence on Medicine

Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary

Researchers Develop Strategies to Protect People from Rising Temperatures

Billions of Tons of CO2 Leading to Ocean Acidification

Insights from Extinction: Cave Bear's Lessons for Today's Bears

Balancing Light in Microscopy: Maximizing Detail, Minimizing Harm

Survival of Living Bacteria on Dust Particles in Desert Storms

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With human feedback, AI-driven robots learn tasks better and faster

Laser Powder Bed Fusion: Key Process for Industrial 3D Printing

Researchers release new standards for 3D printing with powders

Robot in UC Berkeley Lab Executes Perfect Jenga Move

Growing ultrathin semiconductors directly on electronics could eliminate a fragile manufacturing step

Rice University Scientists Grow Ultrathin Semiconductors

Google's Pixel 10 phones raises the ante on artificial intelligence

Google Unveils AI-Infused Pixel Smartphones

Innovative Building Fastening System Developed at TU Graz

Researchers develop hook-and-loop fastener for building components

HydroBoost: Increasing hydropower revenue with realistic forecasting

Hydropower Operators' Revenue Boost from Day-Ahead Market

Modular robots assemble into bridges, shelters and tools for outdoor tasks

Dartmouth Researchers Develop Modular Robots for Outdoor Tasks

Korea develops core radar components for stealth technology

Korea Develops Radar Stealth Tech Locally

AI-Generated Model Graces Vogue Ad: Guess's Virtual Revelation

AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test, and it's changing our relationship with art

Advanced battery electrode processing technologies show promise for cutting energy use in half

Rising Demand for Lithium-Ion Batteries in Next 5 Years

Ultra-fast random numbers: New generator boosts security and speed

Enhancing Security: Improving Deterministic Random Bit Generators

Winged ferry that glides like a pelican tested for coastal transportation

Innovative Winged Ferry: Coastal Transport or Warship?

Diverse Shapes and Sizes: Robots Performing Automatic Tasks

Humans keep building robots that are shaped like us—what's the point?

Trump's Wind Turbine Claims Fuel Renewable Energy Conspiracy

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and inspire conspiracy theories

New Technique Enhances Magnetic Material Production

Frictional heating technique yields better magnets at a lower cost

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Monday, 5 August 2019

New app tests how mood affects cognitive performance

Researchers from UNSW and UCL are hoping that a newly launched app that tracks an individual's moods and emotions could lead to better management of mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/new-app-tests-how-mood-affects-cognitive-performance

Eye-controlled soft lens paves way to soft human-machine interfaces

A research team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a soft robotic lens whose movements are controlled by the eyes—blink twice and the lens zooms in and out; look left, right, up or down and the lens will follow.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/eye-controlled-soft-lens-paves-way-to-soft-human-machine-interfaces

Setting the stage for fuel-efficient fertilizer

Ammonia, the primary ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers, has helped feed the world since World War I. But making ammonia at an industrial scale takes a lot of energy, and it accounts for more than one percent of the world's total energy-related carbon emissions.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/setting-the-stage-for-fuel-efficient-fertilizer

Cigarettes with pro-environment marketing perceived as less harmful, study finds

Few people would consider a handgun with a sustainably harvested wood stock any less lethal than one with a steel stock. The same logic doesn't seem to apply to cigarettes—the leading preventable cause of death globally and in the United States. A new Stanford study finds that people perceive cigarettes with pro-environment marketing on the packaging as less harmful not only to the environment but also to the health of smokers and people around them.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/cigarettes-with-pro-environment-marketing-perceived-as-less-harmful-study-finds

For the presidential race, 'electability' could decide who wins and who loses

In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was deemed "electable" by analysts just four years after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney carried the same label in the race against President Barack Obama, a contest that Romney lost. This election, pundits have dubbed former Vice President Joe Biden as the most "electable" Democrat among a field of more than 20 candidates, in large part because early polls, including the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, indicate he is the favorite so far.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/for-the-presidential-race-electability-could-decide-who-wins-and-who-loses

Larger blood transfusions could halve deaths of children with severe anaemia

Giving larger volumes of blood transfusions to children with severe anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa could halve the number of deaths.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/larger-blood-transfusions-could-halve-deaths-of-children-with-severe-anaemia

Family influence key in spread of opioid use

Introducing an opioid painkiller into a home can double the chances someone else living in the home seeks out the addictive drugs on his or her own, according to a new paper from two UC Berkeley researchers.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/family-influence-key-in-spread-of-opioid-use

To understand how people think, look to their actions, not their words

Actions not only speak louder than words, they also happen first and faster, Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky says. Catching a falling cup, rolling one's eyes at a bad joke—responses like these happen before people find the words to describe their actions and emotions.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/to-understand-how-people-think-look-to-their-actions-not-their-words

Archaeologist works with tribe to explore its history and to repair historic injustices

Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann has been collaborating with the Pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico for two decades, having served as tribal archaeologist and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act program director for the Jemez Department of Natural Resources. Author of "Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico," Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches. Liebmann sat down with the Gazette to talk about his research, how his field has reckoned with the past, and how both influence his teaching.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/archaeologist-works-with-tribe-to-explore-its-history-and-to-repair-historic-injustices

CBD risks and the chance to rein in supplements

With medical and recreational marijuana being legalized in states across the country, cannabis and related products are hitting an eager market, but often without scientific studies to back up product claims.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/cbd-risks-and-the-chance-to-rein-in-supplements

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes on the sky

On 25 July, an asteroid the size of a football field flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet's surface during its closest approach—about one fifth of the distance to the Moon.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/asteroids-surprise-close-approach-illustrates-need-for-more-eyes-on-the-sky

Looking for warm dark matter

In the last century, astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize that most of the matter in the universe was not visible. About 84% of the matter in the cosmos is dark, emitting neither light nor any other known kind of radiation. Hence it is called dark matter. One of its other primary qualities is that it only interacts with other matter via gravity: it carries no electromagnetic charge, for example. Dark matter is also "dark" because it is mysterious: it is not composed of atoms or their usual constituents like electrons and protons. Particle physicists have imagined new kinds of matter, consistent with the known laws of the universe, but so far none has been detected or its existence confirmed. The Large Hadron Collider's discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 prompted a burst of optimism that dark matter particles would soon be discovered, but so far none has been seen and previously promising classes of particles now seem to be long-shots.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/looking-for-warm-dark-matter

500 years on, how Magellan's voyage changed the world

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/500-years-on-how-magellans-voyage-changed-the-world

Australia cancer sufferer first to use new assisted dying law

A 61-year-old cancer patient has become the first person in over two decades to die under controversial assisted dying laws in Australia, a charity said.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/australia-cancer-sufferer-first-to-use-new-assisted-dying-law

In French mountains, bear attacks leave shepherds skittish

As day breaks over the Pyrenees mountains, hundreds of sheep scuttle up a valley, the clanging of their neck bells echoing around the hills that fringe the French-Spanish border.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/in-french-mountains-bear-attacks-leave-shepherds-skittish

Ecological land grab: food vs fuel vs forests

The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction, and an unsustainable global food system are on a collision course towards what might best be called an ecological land grab.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/ecological-land-grab-food-vs-fuel-vs-forests

New Zealand government plans to ease abortion restrictions

New Zealand's government announced Monday that it plans changes to the country's abortion laws that would treat the procedure as a health issue rather than a crime.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/new-zealand-government-plans-to-ease-abortion-restrictions

Long-term declines in heart disease and stroke deaths are stalling, research finds

Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries, including Australia, and are even increasing in some countries, according to new research.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/long-term-declines-in-heart-disease-and-stroke-deaths-are-stalling-research-finds

MSI detection via liquid biopsy shows high concordance with results from tissue samples

Bottom Line: Incorporation of pan-cancer microsatellite instability (MSI) detection into the 74-gene panel Guardant360 liquid biopsy assay showed high concordance with matched tissue samples in nearly 1,000 patients.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/msi-detection-via-liquid-biopsy-shows-high-concordance-with-results-from-tissue-samples

Transgender women case study shows sperm production is possible but not certain

Scientists at Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), collaborating with clinicians at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh report two cases in which young transgender women attempted to recover their fertility after starting and stopping gender-affirming medications.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/transgender-women-case-study-shows-sperm-production-is-possible-but-not-certain

Whole body vibration shakes up microbiome, reduces inflammation in diabetes

In the face of diabetes, a common condition in which glucose and levels of destructive inflammation soar, whole body vibration appears to improve how well our body uses glucose as an energy source and adjust our microbiome and immune cells to deter inflammation, investigators report.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/whole-body-vibration-shakes-up-microbiome-reduces-inflammation-in-diabetes

Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago

A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern imagination 70,000 years ago.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/recursive-language-and-modern-imagination-were-acquired-simultaneously-70-000-years-ago

TV crews capture first evidence of leopard seals sharing food

Drone footage captured by crews filming the Netflix series Our Planet—narrated by Sir David Attenborough—has shown never-before seen behaviour of two leopard seals sharing food.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/tv-crews-capture-first-evidence-of-leopard-seals-sharing-food