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Around the world 4.2 million people die every year within 30 days after surgery — with half of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a new study reveals. Source: More die after surgery than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined — study
A new breed of algorithms has mastered Atari video games 10 times faster than state-of-the-art AI, with a breakthrough approach to problem solving. Source: Atari master: New AI smashes Google DeepMind in video game challenge
If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees. Source: Mean streets: Self-driving cars will ‘cruise’ to avoid paying to park
A scavenger study that used fish carcasses as bait provides additional evidence that wildlife is abundant in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Source: Study reveals wildlife is abundant in Chernobyl
We’re here because there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. An article in Physical Review Letters explores the puzzle of the baryon asymmetry, one of the biggest unsolved problems in physics. Source: Why are you and I and everything else here?
Public health officials have blamed the shift from prescription opioids to injectable heroin as a cause of the rise in hepatitis C cases. A new study provides the best evidence to date that reformulation of the pain medicine OxyContin in 2010 to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a surge in hepatitis…
A team of researchers in China decided to learn more about whether current triglyceride-level guidelines make sense for people aged 80 and older. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Source: New wisdom about high cholesterol treatment for adults aged 80 and older
Zinc deficiency and high blood pressure? Zinc deficiency and high blood pressure? Lower-than-normal zinc levels may contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension) by altering the way the kidneys handle sodium. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology–Renal Physiology. #zinc #bloodpressure #hypertension Clintoria R. Williams, Monisha Mistry, Aswathy Miriam Cheriyan,…
Columbia Engineers have created a robot that learns what it is, with zero prior knowledge of physics, geometry, or motor dynamics. Initially the robot has no clue what its shape is. After a brief period of ‘babbling,’ and within about a day of intensive computing, the robot creates a self-simulation, which it can then use…
In a study published in Environment International researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how PFAS industrial chemicals, which are used in many consumer products, pass through the placenta throughout pregnancy to accumulate in fetal tissue. Further research is now needed to ascertain the effect that highly persistent PFAS chemicals have on the fetus. Source:…
For most of human history Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been a rare disorder. However, demography and the by-products of industrialization a now contributing to an impending a Parkinson’s pandemic, according to experts writing in a supplement to the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. Source: Emerging evidence of an impending Parkinson’s disease pandemic identified
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory report using two different laser-based methods to transmit various tones, music and recorded speech at a conversational volume Source: New technology uses lasers to transmit audible messages to specific people
A scientific analysis of the sentiment of popular music lyrics from the 1950s to 2016 showed that the expression of anger and sadness in popular music has increased gradually over time, while the expression of joy has declined. Source: Computer analysis shows that popular music lyrics become angrier and sadder over time
New simulations led by researchers working at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have combined decades-old theories to provide new insight about the driving mechanisms in plasma jets that allows them to steal energy from black holes’ powerful gravitational fields and propel it far from their gaping mouths. Source: How to escape a black hole:…
Chickens that are genetically modified to produce human proteins in their eggs can offer a cost-effective method of producing certain types of drugs, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests. Researchers say the findings provide sound evidence for using chickens as a cheap method of producing high quality drugs for use in research studies and,…
