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Healthcare professionals, pilots, truck drivers and shift workers have likely all experienced sleep deprivation, which negatively affects performance, safety, and quality of life. Researchers have developed a blood test that can accurately detect wheth… Continue reading Blood test detects sleep deprivation with 99.2% accuracy
The completion of the openVertebrate (oVert) project is a significant milestone for natural history museums, as well as researchers, educators, students, and the public. The digital library is the first to offer free access to incredibly detailed – and… Continue reading Video: 3D images of over 13,000 museum specimens now free to everyone
You know when you pour milk into a bowl of breakfast cereal and the floating cereal tends to clump together? In fluid mechanics, that phenomenon is known as the ‘Cheerios effect,’ and it’s inspired the development of a unique but more efficient water-h… Continue reading “Cheerios effect” unlocks high-efficiency water harvesting
Inflammation resulting from a viral infection has traditionally been thought to cause acute myocarditis, which can lead to fatal heart arrhythmias in otherwise healthy young adults. Now, a new study has shown for the first time that the virus itself da… Continue reading Myocarditis game-changer: We’ve blamed the wrong culprit
Studying a species of microscopic worms exposed to almost forty years of high radiation following an explosion at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, researchers couldn’t find signs of genetic damage caused by the exposure. They believe the findings will … Continue reading Radiation-proof Chernobyl worms offer answers about cancer
Implanting tiny solar panels into people’s eyeballs may sound like science fiction, but that’s exactly what a team of Australian scientists are working on. The next-gen tech could vastly improve quality of life for people with incurable eye diseases.Co… Continue reading Solar panels in your eyeballs: Self-powered bionics are on the way
Delivering a gentle automated tap to the outside of a hive and recording the honeybees’ collective response can give an indication of the colony’s health without having to look inside, new research has found.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTa… Continue reading Beekeepers can now check hives without upsetting the residents
Hospital workers hear up to 1,000 alarm noises per shift, and that sensory overload is costing hundreds of lives. New research suggests there’s a fix that could make a significant difference – while also making key equipment far less annoying.Continue … Continue reading Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year
By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have practical implications for anyone – not just musicians – wanting to get ‘in the zone’ to generate cre… Continue reading Flow: We really are unconscious when we’re ‘in the zone’
In a world first, researchers have printed multi-layered, living skin directly onto significant injuries in rats for scar-free skin repair. It’s not sci-fi – they’re genuinely 3D-printing skin (and possibly hair) right into damaged areas.Continue Readi… Continue reading Astonishing scar-free surgery prints living skin right into wounds