Just when schools were getting ready to reopen for the new school year, cases of COVID-19 started surging in the United States, driven in large part by the more contagious delta variant. School administrators around the country are working to…
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Can we defeat the long Covid epidemic too?
So can we defeat the long Covid epidemic too? As the numbers affected soar to two million in England alone — and the list of symptoms it causes multiplies — we reveal how an army of scientists is going into…
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Can You Really Turn a Jigsaw into a Massage Gun? We Tried.
Perhaps now more than any time in history, hacks are hot. As the pandemic appears to be ebbing and we start picking up the pieces, we sit at a rare confluence: peak technological advancement — and peak desperation for anything…
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Not-so-blind mice can make strategic and acute visual choices
New research from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science shows that mice can teach us about decision-making strategies. Mice in the study autonomously trained themselves to make decisions about detailed pictures on a screen. A dataset of over 1.3 million…
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Nanotech device can detect risk for serious complication during pregnancy
Researchers from UCLA and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to detect a potentially life-threatening condition that can occur during pregnancy. The condition, placenta accreta spectrum disorder, occurs when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall and fails…
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Can eating hot chili peppers actually hurt you?
We all know the burning sensation we get when eating chillies. Some can tolerate the heat, while others may be reaching for the milk carton. Some people even actively choose to participate in chili-eating competitions, seeking out the world’s hottest…
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DR ELLIE CANNON: What can I do about the music playing in my head?
DR ELLIE CANNON: What can I do about the music constantly playing in my head? I can constantly hear music in my head. It can be when I wake up, when walking the dogs, or in the car. It’s really getting…
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Autism can be detected during toddlerhood using a brief questionnaire
New research led by the University of Cambridge suggests that autism can be detected at 18-30 months using the Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT), but it is not possible to identify every child at a young age who…
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How Fitness Trackers Can Aid In The Treatment And Study Of Covid-19
As the global COVID-19 pandemic rages on, new research is being ever completed on its virality, its relationship to vaccines, and its lingering effects both in those who have had it and on society as a whole. For example, the…
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Study unravels the link between chromosomal instability and cellular senescence
Chromosomal instability is a feature of solid tumors such as carcinoma. Likewise, cellular senescence is a process that is highly related to cellular ageing and its link to cancer is becoming increasingly clear. Scientists led by ICREA researcher Dr. Marco…
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