Nottingham University Hospitals Trust runs the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital. Credit: LDRS Seventy families have agreed to take part in an independent evaluation of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH). The review's goal is to "drive rapid improvements in maternity services. An examination discovered 46 newborns with brain injury and...
Loui (the juvenile male orangutan) using the core as an active element to vertically strike on the concrete floor of the testing room during the Flake Trading condition of Experiment 2. Credit: Motes-Rodrigo et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Untrained, captive orangutans can finish two significant steps in the routine of stone tool use:...
It's a compelling (and scary) theory Advanced Civilizations A Harvard researcher has a fascinating theory concerning just how our universe was formed: in a research laboratory by a superior "class" of lifeform. Avi Loeb, the bestselling author also the former chair of Harvard's astronomy department, wrote an op-ed in Scientific American recently positing that the universe might...
Credit: Vladislav Tchakarov Human beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human...
Laser-thermal propelled spacecraft in Earth orbit awaiting its departure. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Could a laser send a spacecraft to Mars? That is a proposed mission from a group at McGill University, made to fulfill a solicitation from NASA. The laser, a 10-meter vast array in the world, would certainly heat up...
Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia Commons Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later. Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri...
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light pictures of the surface of Venus from space Surrounded in thick clouds, Venus' surface is usually hidden from view. However, in two current flybys of the Earth, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the whole nightside in wavelengths...
When a pulse of current goes through a tube containing coal ash, a flash of light indicates rapid heating. Rare earth elements then become much easier to extract. Credit: BRANDON MARTIN/RICE UNIVERSITY As chemists struggle to discover methods to reclaim important metals from industrial waste and disposed electronics, one group has discovered an answer that...
Anxiety and other dysfunctional mental states are related to high levels of BETA brainwave activity. Credit: Steven Johnson If you or somebody you know experiences feelings of anxiety, mood swings, mild depression, panic attacks, or obsessive thoughts, this article could be what you have been searching for. Any dysfunctional mental state often results from a...
Researchers have carried out experiments on a parabolic flight to examine the efficiency of oxygen-evolving electrolysis on the Moon and Mars. Researchers Bethany Lomax and Gunter Just conducting experiments on a parabolic flight. Credit: Manchester University The discovery from the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow is stated to supply beneficial insights into establishing human habitats far...
