Credit: James Yarema on UnsplashFor the millions of people living with diabetic issues, insulin is a life-saving drug. Unlike many other medicines, however, insulin can not be easily provided by swallowing a pill-- it needs to be injected under the skin with a syringe or pump. Scientists have been making steps towards an insulin...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the left picture– on Jan. 5, 2023. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in AIA 171 orange. Credit: NASA/SDOThe sun...
Lake Gossenköllesee is located in the Tyrolean Alps. Credit: Christopher BellasThough human beings, along with other vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, do not photosynthesize, we're certainly the downstream beneficiaries of the life forms that do. Phototrophic organisms at the bottom of the food chain convert plentiful sunlight into the energy that ultimately powers all other...
(Dougal Waters/Getty ImagesYou've driven home from work along the same course for the past five years. However, lately, you've been stopping at the same intersection, struggling to remember if you must turn left or right. Many occasions in everyday life could make us question whether lapses in memory are common, a sign of cognitive...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainThe outcomes represent an initial step toward developing what scholars expect will become the capacity to foresee whether a slow-moving landslide will fail and slide downhill.Climate modification is leading more volatile precipitation patterns worldwide-- very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large quantities of rain or snow in a short...
Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting/Moment/GettyThe wonderful step taken by physicistsPhysicists have just taken an wonderful step regarding quantum devices that seems like something out of science fiction.For the first time, isolated sets of particles acting like unusual states of matter known as time crystals have been connected into a single, advancing system that could...
Schematic representation of the geographic distribution of Q-Z780 and sub-lineages. Colored circles represent geographic distribution and sub-lineage membership as shown in the inset tree. Credit: PLOS ONE (2022).Discovery of chromosomal evidenceA team of scientists affiliated with many institutions in Argentina has discovered chromosomal proof of people residing in South America as far back as 18,000...
Credit: MedtronicAn early diagnosis means early treatment and a better chance of a positive result.Patient end results are often better when a disease is diagnosed and also cured early; however, some diseases do not trigger symptons until a patient is already sick-- ovarian cancer, for instance, can go undiscovered for ten years or...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainResearchers examining the effects of an organic compound on drug resistance bacteria have found how it could impede and exterminate a germ that causes extreme sickness or sometimes fatalities.Pseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas aeruginosa is a kind of microorganism usually discovered in patients, which can cause infections in the blood, lungs (pneumonia), or...
WISE W4 (22.19 µm) image of the IC 1396 HII region. The BRCs are labeled with their names. Credit: Pelayo-BUtilizing different telescopes, a worldwide group of astronomers has studied into IC 1396-- a close-by area of ionized atomic hydrogen. Outcomes of the research, released October 21st on arXiv.org, yield essential understandings concerning the star...
