Darkness can move faster than light without breaking relativity
A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say…
AI is transforming pediatric surgery, but with strong ethical concerns
Before a child goes into an operating room, a large screen displays a risk score. This score predicts…
Seniors Who Eat More Meat Are Less Likely to Develop Dementia Study Find
By Leonardo Carvalho Researchers in Sweden recently found that seniors were able to offset a genetic risk for…
Expanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universe
Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals,…
Map Shows Most Stressed States in America
Louisiana ranks as the most stressed state in the U.S, a new study has found. A report from…
Scientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fields
Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo…
Whale fossils reveal evidence of ancient shark attacks
A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls…
6,800 feet below ground, in the search for dark matter, something has gone very, very cold
Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has…
Pediatric sepsis contributes to significant hospital deaths in the United States
Nearly 1 in 5 pediatric hospital deaths in the United States involve sepsis, according to a new national…
The risk too many people are taking with Ozempic and other GLP-1s.
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Readout Newsletter: Eli Lilly’s ‘triple-G’ drug delivers striking results
Regulators are trying to push drug development into a post-animal testing era. Meanwhile, a Jennifer Doudna-founded company is…
Hands-on sound: IRCAM’s ASAP apps transform audio, free on iPad
Reach out and draw and manipulate sounds, directly from the spectrum. IRCAM Forum’s Pierre Guillot lets us know…