Since the opioid crisis, more patients seeking relief from pain and turning to alternative forms of treatment, including the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture.
PNNL chemical engineer Reid Peterson helped develop the process to pretreat Hanford Site tank waste by removing cesium-137.
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington developed 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. This allows the system to learn to pick up new foods during one meal.
New sociological research investigates the relationship between family and gender wage gaps--looking at the full labor market, and also separately looking at Black, Hispanic, and White workers.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: Meu médico recomendou incluir mais frutas e vegetais na minha dieta. Aumentei o consumo pouco a pouco ao longo dos últimos dois meses, entretanto, ultimamente, comecei a sentir aumento de gases e inchaço abdominal. Existem frutas que devem ser evitadas para limitar o incômodo abdominal? Como posso adotar uma dieta mais saudável e evitar o desconforto?
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 16, 2023—Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D. – a leading researcher into the causes, manifestation and treatment of mood disorders, particularly major depression – has been named the founding director of a transdisciplinary depression research institute at the University of California, Irvine, following a nationwide search.
السادة مايو كلينك: أوصاني الطبيب بإضافة المزيد من الفاكهة والخضروات إلى حميتي الغذائية. وحرصتُ على زيادة حصتي منها تدريجيًا على مدار الشهرَين الماضيَين، ولكن مؤخرًا بدأتُ أشعر بزيادة الغازات والانتفاخات. هل توجد أطعمة معيّنة يجب تجنّبها للحد من تهيّج المعدة؟ كيف يمكنني أن أتبنى حمية غذائية صحية مع البُعد عن الاضطرابات؟
Despite a record year for organ donation last year in the U.S., an estimated 17 people die every day waiting for a transplant. Yet Mayo Clinic transplant experts are optimistic that solutions to some of the biggest transplant challenges are on the horizon, thanks to new technology, research and innovations.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: Mi médico me recomendó que incluyera más frutas y verduras en mi alimentación. En los últimos dos meses he ido aumentando la cantidad de a poco, pero últimamente tengo más gases e hinchazón. ¿Hay que evitar determinados alimentos para reducir el dolor abdominal? ¿Cómo puedo tener una alimentación más saludable sin sentir molestias?
Eight OQI undergraduate fellows recently completed quantum research experiences that contributed to R&D at the Q-NEXT quantum center. In this Q&A, they share what they did last summer.
New research published today provides new evidence that households with lower incomes are facing greater financial pressures than existing inflation measures are capturing.
Laura Gee, an associate professor of economics at Tufts, and her colleagues recently completed a study that looked at how calls and messages from children's schools are split along gender lines. One of their findings surprised exactly no one: Mothers get the lion’s share of the interruptions.
Compared with the general population, epilepsy is more common in people with autism—and autism is more common in people with epilepsy. How can autism affect the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, and vice versa? Joy Mazur spoke to Dr. Colin Reilly and Dr. Stéphane Auvin.
Dr. Raphael Mechoulam was an organic chemist and the father of cannabis research. He passed away in March 2023. This episode is a remastering of a conversation between Dr. Mechoulam and Dr. Meir Bialer, held in 2018 at the 13th European Congress on Epileptology.
Saint Louis University professor Ricardo Wray, Ph.D., was named a 2024 Climate and Health Scholar by the National Institutes of Health, beginning a year-long research fellowship to combat climate change and its public health consequences.
A research team led by Dr. Jae-woong Ko from the Department of Engineering Ceramics at the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS) has succeeded in localizing silicon nitride bearing ball manufacturing technology for electric vehicle drive modules.
For years, Rutgers ecologist Brooke Maslo has studied how to redesign flood-prone landscapes so they can best protect the communities they border from the ravages of swollen brooks and rivers and rising seas.
The George Washington University has announced the formation of a sweeping new university-wide initiative that will reach across schools and disciplines to create a strategic alliance dedicated to the mission of combating climate change and promoting healthy and thriving resource systems for all.
Flint residents have learned to question everything in the decade since the city's drinking water first began showing signs of lead contamination. Even now, after seven straight years with water meeting federal safety guidelines, the lack of trust remains for many.
From air-sealing windows and checking for leaky ducts to insulating the attic, PNNL researchers offer tips on how to keep a home warm in winter weather.
Started in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium (SEPCON) was established to address the challenges posed to bring biofuels to market faster and more efficiently. Separating biomass — organic material from plants, agricultural waste and wet waste, among others — is costly and uses a lot of energy.
La epilepsia descontrolada de Lisa Lindahl la obligó a ser creativa a la hora de trabajar. En 1977 inventó el sujetador deportivo, que cambió la vida de miles de millones de mujeres y niñas en todo el mundo, y ahora es un mercado global de 40.000 millones de dólares.
Alzheimer’s disease slowly erases memories and cognitive abilities, upending families ― and it’s incurable. But there are steps you can take to slow and prevent it, says a Penn State Health expert.
A team of scientists from Jefferson Lab and the University of Virginia have turned to machine learning in the quest to streamline beam tuning on the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility – and reduce accelerator downtime.
With today’s fast and automated analysis tools, the field of biology is bursting at the seams with datasets about gene sequences and expression in the microbiomes around us – and inside us.
Sitting in his cardiologist’s office at Cedars-Sinai one Friday afternoon in 2022, Cornelius Albert suddenly was unable to move or speak. “I had an attack,” said Albert, 76, who runs a court filing service and lives in View Park.
After a distant star’s explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months – a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before.
Hackensack University Medical Center's physicians performed in a Battle of the Bands and won! Raising money for a good cause while having some fun!
Now that ChatGPT has revealed connections in meaning that can emerge from the simple premise of predicting the next word, a team of researchers led by the University of Michigan aims to do the same for atoms strung together to build molecules.
This fall, when students visit a local STEM fest (a fair themed around science, technology, engineering and mathematics), if the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has been invited to participate at that event, the students will discover that Argonne offers a fun activity to explore at STEM fests: hydropower.
Press release regarding MS Center Designations as Centers for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care
The story of a clinical trial that is unlocking a new, personalized treatment approach with the power to save the lives of thousands of people living with an aggressive and deadly form of leukemia was screened at the American Public Health Association Film Festival this week.
A world-first research programme that will identify adults at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes has opened for recruitment in the UK.
Discovery of “cooperative” interactions among battery components points to an exciting new approach for designing batteries beyond lithium-ion.
Nov. 28 event to focus on multiple dimensions of food safety research and practice.
Making room for the world’s first exascale supercomputer took some supersized renovations.Frontier’s 74 cabinets cover more than 7,300 square feet in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s data center located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That’s a space roughly 1,700 square feet larger than that occupied by its high-speed predecessor Summit and more than three times the size of the average American home for a machine that runs on 30 million watts of electricity.
Battery energy storage systems are being proposed in municipalities across the U.S. PNNL researchers can help community planners guide safe siting and operations.
The team that built Frontier set out to break the exascale barrier, but the supercomputer’s record-breaking didn’t stop there.“The exascale number marks a major milestone itself, but it also marks the beginning of a new chapter in high-speed computing,” said Feiyi Wang, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory computer scientist who leads research into artificial intelligence and analytics.
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University is part of a national effort to “reimagine” steel production, developing an innovative and low-cost process that could replace blast furnaces for ironmaking.
November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about this common disorder of the nervous system, its challenges, symptoms and treatment options.
In a groundbreaking achievement for cancer treatment, research, and medical technology, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for the HistoSonics’ Edison histotripsy device to treat liver tumors.
Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston launches Code Lilac to provide emotional support to workforce members who have experienced stressful patient or work-related events.
More than one-third (35%) of Americans have used an electronic sleep-tracking device, and of that group the majority of them said that they found the sleep tracker helpful (77%) and have changed behavior because of what they learned (68%).
In the eighth annual The State of Open Data report released today, almost three quarters of surveyed researchers overwhelmingly said they are still not getting the support they need to share their data openly. Such data highlights the increased need for greater community collaboration and tools to support researchers in the move to sustainable open science practices.
Findings will help scientists understand how microgravity impacts the ability of human heart cells to withstand the stresses of space travel
Khaled Abdelghany, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at SMU (Southern Methodist University), has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant by the Federal Highway Administration. The grant aims to develop a computer program that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance the safety and efficiency of intersections for both vehicles and pedestrians.
Non-toxic and scalable water-based flow batteries would be a good solution for storing renewable energy in urban areas – if it weren't for their very low energy density. Empa researcher David Reber wants to remedy the situation with clever materials design.
Before surgery, people with epilepsy undergo evaluation, extensive testing, and lots of time with medical teams. But some professionals and advocates argue that after surgery, people are unfairly left to manage treatment and care without much help or guidance.
Argonne National Laboratory leads the Fast Reactor Program, which provides key support to industry in demonstrating clean, green advanced nuclear reactor technologies.
Gemini north, one half of the international gemini observatory operated by nsf’s noirlab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new igrins-2 instrument.
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