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Joseph Shavit
Oct 24, 2021
Inflatable housing start-up Spartan Space is preparing for lunar habitation
TechTheMoon, the first incubator dedicated exclusively to the Moon, welcomes its first five start-ups. They will facilitate life on the moon
Joseph Shavit
Oct 24, 2021
New study suggests that breastfeeding may help prevent cognitive decline
Women over the age of 50 who had breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests compared to women who had never breastfed.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 24, 2021
Digital technology didn’t kill media but gave it new life
Piracy did not wreck the recording industry, Netflix isn't killing Hollywood movies, and information does not want to be free.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 23, 2021
Do humans actually cause global climate change?
More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to 88,125 climate studies
Joseph Shavit
Oct 23, 2021
Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct—climate change did: study
For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until they vanished for good nearly 4,000 years ago - scientists finally proved why
Joseph Shavit
Oct 22, 2021
People love the billionaire, but hate the billionaires' club
Americans may respect and admire how individual billionaires made their billions, even as they rage against the "top 1%" as a group.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 21, 2021
Surgeons have successfully tested a pig’s kidney in a human patient
The test, in a brain-dead patient, was very short but represents a milestone in the long quest to use animal organs in human transplants.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 21, 2021
How would nuclear war impact global climate change and food supplies?
Nuclear war would cause many immediate fatalities, but smoke from the resulting fires would also cause climate change lasting up to 15 years
Joseph Shavit
Oct 21, 2021
A spacecraft could use gravity to prevent a dangerous asteroid impact
The ‘gravity tractor’ method of asteroid deflection involves flying a spacecraft close enough to an asteroid so its gravitational attraction
Joseph Shavit
Oct 21, 2021
Amount of information in visible universe quantified
Researchers present a numerical estimate for the amount of encoded information in all the visible matter in the universe.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 20, 2021
Did the Earth tip on its side 84 million years ago?
We know that the continents are moving slowly due to plate tectonics, but continental drift only pushes the tectonic plates past each other.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 19, 2021
Eating Mushrooms May Lower Risks of Anxiety and Depression
Mushrooms have been making headlines due to their many health advantages. Not only do they lower one’s risk of cancer and premature death...
Joseph Shavit
Oct 19, 2021
Our DNA is becoming the world's tiniest hard drive
Genetic code is millions of times more efficient at storing data than existing solutions, which are costly and use immense amounts of energy
Joseph Shavit
Oct 19, 2021
New portable device opens the way for at-home skin cancer treatment
A new prototype photodynamic therapy (PDT) device that can be used at home significantly reduces pain levels during treatment.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 19, 2021
What our wandering thoughts can teach us about mental health
Researchers analyzed idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 19, 2021
Gene therapy can restore vision after stroke
Most strokes happen when an artery in the brain becomes blocked. Blood flow to the neural tissue stops, and those tissues typically die.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 18, 2021
1 in 3 Americans might consider abolishing or limiting Supreme Court, Annenberg survey finds
Respect for judicial independence appears to be eroding according to an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 18, 2021
Ability to produce humor linked to higher intelligence levels in schoolchildren
Children with higher levels of general knowledge and verbal reasoning are better able to produce humor, new research suggests.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 17, 2021
Researchers discover a more targeted treatment for cancer
Several years ago, it was discovered that a group of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer also have mutations in one of two genes
Joseph Shavit
Oct 16, 2021
New opportunities to mitigate climate change to promote human health
A new report involving an Exeter expert shows how action to mitigate climate chance could promote human health.
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