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Increased Risk of Breast Lymphomas Postmastectomy Reconstruction

Enhanced Survival Chances with Combined Senses

Pop-Up Screening at Pharmacies & Events Identifies Cardiovascular Risks

Impact of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy on Health

Impact of Great Irish Famine on Human Height

Summer Heat, Outdoor Fun and Cold and Flu Symptoms

Pond Worms: Key to Schizophrenia Treatment & Drug Testing

Study: Spironolactone Ineffective for Heart Risks in Dialysis

Survey Reveals Exaggerated Benefits of Electroconvulsive Therapy

Experts Recommend SGLT-2 and GLP-1 for Type 2 Diabetes

Eye Tracking Reveals Prosthetic Arm Integration Challenges

Study Links Renal Response to Lupus Relapse Survival

Study: DASH and DII Diets Impact CKD Risk

Optimal Route: Left or Right for Park Stroll?

Faster Airway Wall Elasticity Measurement Technique Unveiled

Pandemic's Toll on Mothers: Rising Stress and Identity Loss

New Diagnostic Platform Amplifies Optical Signals for Alzheimer's Detection

Novel Brain Study: Striatum's Role in Decision-Making

Cerebral Palsy: Dystonia in Children - Impact on Movement

Study Reveals ORC's Key Role in Human Gene Regulation

Rise of Childhood Contact Allergies in Finland

Immune Cells Vital for Organ Transplant Success

Cholera Outbreak in Sudan's Darfur: 40 Lives Lost

Cancer Survival Rates Surge, But Slow in Recent Years

Study Reveals Chronic Pain Disparities in Rural vs. Urban U.S.

Revival of Ancestral Healing Knowledge by Indigenous Ethnobotanist

Smartphone App Offers Hope for Low-Income Smokers

Researchers Uncover Key Epigenetic Markers in Cell Fate

Breakthrough Monoclonal Antibody Halts Sepsis

Uncovering Factors Behind Rise in Young Colorectal Cancer

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Report by Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future: Strengthening Governance

Mit Researchers Develop Innovative Method for Efficient RNA Therapy Delivery

Scuba Diver Murat Draman Discovers Warm Waters

Austrian Artist Jonas Griessler Measures Sweltering Heat in Vienna

Fisherman Alphonse Akadie Exhumes Relatives to Protect from Ocean

Global Talks Fail to Reach Agreement on Plastic Pollution Treaty

Florida Wildlife Officials Approve Plan to Reopen Apalachicola Bay

Breakthrough in Terahertz Radiation Control

Telomeres: DNA Sequences Safeguard Chromosome Tips

Crew-11 Astronauts Launch Space Farming Chapter

Secrets of Fragrant Garden Staples Unveiled by Michigan State Study

Boost Your Child's Learning with Puzzles and Blocks

Bird Flu's Dairy Sector Impact: A Call for Unified Response

Rising Demand for Vegan Protein Alternatives

Algae Photosynthesis Fueled by Ocean Iron Dust

New Sensing Technology for Farmers: SonicBoom Locates Crops

Leveraging Cultural Heritage for Climate Adaptation

Ireland's First Satellite Tests Advanced Space Control

Microbes in Oxygen-Free Environments Major Methane Emitters

Planetary Parade: Six Planets Align in Sky

Study: Anger Boosts Men's Financial Decisions

Climate Data Aids Neotropical Frog Conservation

Human Influence on Soil Erosion: Tracing Back Millennia

Sw Southwest Research Institute Develops Custom Large Language Model for Drug Discovery

University of Alabama Scientists Develop Bio-Engineered Inflammation Treatment

New Inventory Modeling Technique for Unpredictable Demand

Trump Administration, Harvard Near $500M Settlement

Dog Paw Problems: Signs of Slowed Routine

The Pros and Cons of Freelancing

Do Gratitude Statements Encourage Kindness?

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Australian Researchers Discover Peer-to-Peer Solar Power Sharing

Sharing is power: Doing the neighborly thing when it comes to solar

YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults

YouTube Utilizes AI to Detect Child Users Impersonating Adults

Apple Unveils Redesigned Blood Oxygen Sensing in Top Smartwatches

Apple Watch gets revamped blood oxygen feature

Graph AI Models for Industrial Analysis: Limitations in Full Graph Learning

Graph analysis AI model achieves training up to 95 times faster on a single GPU

New Method for Realistic Water Flow Simulations

Two-phase model incorporates interactions with air to facilitate realistic simulation of fluids

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Sparks Controversy

Grok 4's new AI companions offer 'pornographic productivity' for a price

Sea slug research advances soft robotics

Engineers Draw Inspiration from Nature for Robot Designs

Innovative Solution: Relocatable Modular Buildings for Sustainable Construction

Digital twin framework enhances sustainability and efficiency of modular buildings

First Detailed Study on School-Based Online Surveillance Services

Study finds that school-based online surveillance companies monitor students 24/7

Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop and martial arts

Humanoid Robots Showcase Hip-Hop, Martial Arts, Music

Energy Efficiency Boost: PNNL Tests Enhance Nuclear Fuel

New research effort could boost nuclear fuel performance

Challenges of Regular Warm Clothing in Cold Weather

Sweat-sensitive jacket adjusts its thickness to keep you comfortable when it's cold

US Military Spaceplane X-37B Set for Eighth Space Flight

Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane

Innovative Oil Recovery Method: More Oil, Carbon Storage

Alternative carbon carrier technology could improve both oil production and carbon storage

Older Americans Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Older Americans are using AI. Study shows how and what they think of it

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Monday, 5 August 2019

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

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

Antineutrino detection could help remotely monitor nuclear reactors

Technology to measure the flow of subatomic particles known as antineutrinos from nuclear reactors could allow continuous remote monitoring designed to detect fueling changes that might indicate the diversion of nuclear materials. The monitoring could be done from outside the reactor vessel, and the technology may be sensitive enough to detect substitution of a single fuel assembly.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/antineutrino-detection-could-help-remotely-monitor-nuclear-reactors

Team uses AI to detect fast radio bursts

A Swinburne Ph.D. student has built an automated system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise our ability to detect and capture fast radio bursts (FRBs) in real-time.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/team-uses-ai-to-detect-fast-radio-bursts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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