Scientists announce discovery of supermassive binary black holes: Two black holes orbiting one another eventually will merge
A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions have discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems. The two black holes, which orbit each other, likely weigh 100 million suns each. One of the black holes powers a massive jet that moves outward at very close to […]
Brain-based computing chips not just for AI anymore
With the insertion of a little math, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown that neuromorphic computers, which synthetically replicate the brain’s logic, can solve more complex problems than those posed by artificial intelligence and may even earn a place in high-performance computing. The findings, detailed in a recent article in the journal Nature Electronics, show […]
An obesity treatment for women only?
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a potential way to battle the health effects of obesity and type 2 diabetes in women after discovering an important factor that could determine how their bodies use and store fat. Based on their new discovery, the researchers, led by Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Mete […]
Discovery of new immune process that regulates inflammation in human fat may help manage obesity
Irish and German scientists have just identified how specific immune cells can work together in fat to cause inflammation that leads to weight gain and obesity. Their work pinpoints new avenues to exploit the regulation of that inflammation in fat tissue, thereby suggesting new ways to manage obesity [Wednesday 9th March 2022]. There is a […]
COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Continue To Drop Globally, WHO Says
LONDON (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths globally have continued to fall in the past week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, with only the Western Pacific reporting an increase in COVID-19. In its latest report on the pandemic issued on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said new COVID-19 infections dropped […]
What Is ‘Trauma Dumping’? Here’s How To Know If You’re Doing It.
If you’re on the therapy side of TikTok, you may have seen a viral video posted by therapist Ilene Glance that drew so much backlash, she has since deleted her account, @sidequesttherapy. Glance titled the clip “When a client wants to trauma dump first session” and captioned it “Not happening on my watch ever again.” […]
Communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes: Area-level racial prejudice drives health inequities, research finds
People who live in communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes, including more heart disease and mental health problems and higher overall mortality rates, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. The researchers conducted a systematic review of fourteen papers that used data gathered from Google, Twitter and other […]
Masks Off: 9 Products To Restore Your Smile To Its Pre-COVID State Of Glory
We’ve all spent a lot of time alone or wearing a mask the past two years, so you may have skipped a flossing session or two. Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced their intention to ease mask guidance across the country, it may be crunch time to make sure your smile […]
Honing the Indications for Adjuvant CDK4/6 Inhibition in Breast Cancer
MIAMI BEACH — After a bumpy start, CDK4/6 inhibitors have started to gain traction in early hormone receptor (HR)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer, according to recent data. Two negative phase III trials of palbociclib (Ibrance) questioned whether the transformative impact of CDK4/6 inhibition in advanced HR+/HER2- breast cancer would carry over into early disease. More recently, the […]
Event horizons are tunable factories of quantum entanglement: Physicists’ research findings open a promising avenue for confirming the quantum origin of the Hawking radiation
LSU physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or “stimulating,” the production of entanglement in the Hawking effect in a controlled manner. Furthermore, these scientists propose a protocol for testing this idea in the laboratory using artificially produced event horizons. These results have been recently published in Physical Review […]