19+ hour, 58+ min ago   (483+ words) All six flight LALs shared an unresolved surface morphology CREDIT: Dr Morgan Micheletti An eye surgeon with a passion for space since childhood predicts that as astronauts start to make journeys to the Moon and Mars in the near future,…...

17+ hour, 7+ min ago   (991+ words) “I dreamed of going to school like other girls,” she said. “Instead, I became a wife before I had the chance to live my childhood, and a mother before I truly understood what that meant.” For a while, life with…...

17+ hour, 40+ min ago   (625+ words) For most of the history of medicine, this was not an optional ritual performed before ordering the “real tests.” This was medicine. Today, increasingly, it is treated as something quaint, inefficient, or unnecessary. I would never want to return to…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago   (655+ words) During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world faced the same basic challenge: measuring a fast-moving public-health crisis and communicating its severity to citizens. But did official data reflect what was actually happening? A new study by Ariel Karlinsky (Hebrew…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (358+ words) This work stems from the synergy between two lines of research developed at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, and the E. Menni Research Center of Fondazione Poliambulanza. The study’s lead authors are…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (245+ words) The Japanese rice fish, also called medaka, is a widely used model organism, as they are easy to breed and genetically modify. The findings of this study will help us understand how sensitive this fish’s brain chemistry is to antidepressants…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (819+ words) “We found we can get these kids to engage and tell us, in their own language, how they’re perceiving the world,” says Scott, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences. During a trial, he…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (663+ words) The problem with progressive institutional absorption is therefore deeper than centralization. It is the erosion of independent corrective capacity. This is where predation and closure meet. State expansion can intensify this condition because each additional domain brought under a common…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (706+ words) By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh A critical issue we ought to pay more attention to is the rapid urbanization seen across the Middle East and North Africa, which is undoubtedly reshaping the region’s demographic and economic landscapes. Many people are attempting…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (598+ words) By Africa Defense Forum The Ebola outbreak that started in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo about four months ago had sickened more than 6,000 people and killed nearly 3,000 by the end of August as the virus spread to the…...