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New reserach shows fungi and mushrooms create electrical pulses and may be communicating with each other, or talking to each other.
Recovery Simulator and Analysis tool further strengthens PNNLâs short-term resilience planning efforts for Puerto Rico.
Researchers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UC Berkeley recorded electrical activity in the brains of epilepsy patients while showing them various images in an attempt to find out where persistent images are stored in the brain and how we consciously access those images. (Image credit: Hadar Vishne, Royal College of Art)
More than a quarter of all stroke victims develop a bizarre disorder â they lose conscious awareness of half of all that their eyes perceive.
After a stroke in the brainâs right half, for example, a person might eat only whatâs on the right side of the plate because theyâre unaware of the other half. The person may see only the right half of a photo and ignore a person on their left side.
Considering whether to downsize or renovate your home? Evaluating your priorities helps make the best decision for you. Hereâs what you need to know.
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson was on a Zoom call when she saw it for the first time.
She and two PhD studentsâMirco HĂŒnnefeld of TU Dortmund University in Germany and Steve Sclafani of Drexel University in the United Statesâhad received permission to review the results of their analysis. Using 10 years of data and 60,000 detections from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, they were trying to map the emission of tiny, ghostly particles called neutrinos from the band of the Milky Way.
Kurahashi Neilson remembers the three of them staring at the image together. Slowly, they realized that they were, indeed, looking at the first-ever neutrino image of our galaxy.
MIT researchers have discovered that when you mix cement and carbon black with water, the resulting concrete self-assembles into an energy-storing supercapacitor that can put out enough juice to power a home or fast-charge electric cars.
Weâve written before about the idea of using concrete for energy storage â back in 2021, a team from the Chalmers University of Technology showed how useful amounts of electrical energy could be stored in concrete poured around carbon fiber mesh electrodes, with mixed-in carbon fibers to add conductivity.
MITâs discovery appears to take things to the next level, since it does away with the need to lay mesh electrodes into the concrete, and instead allows the carbon black to form its own connected electrode structures as part of the curing process.
Misinformation about cancer is abundant on the internet and social media, including stories and videos that describe miraculous results from treatments that are unproven and potentially harmful. Researchers are now looking at the extent of misinformation and its impact on people with cancer.
With the summer holiday season now in full swing, the blog will also swing into its annual August series. For most of the month, I will share with you just a small sampling of the colorful videos and snapshots of life captured in a select few of the hundreds of NIH-supported research labs around the country.
To get us started, letâs turn to the study of viruses. Researchers now can generate vast amounts of data relatively quickly on a virus of interest. But data are often displayed as numbers or two-dimensional digital images on a computer screen. For most virologists, itâs extremely helpful to see a virus and its data streaming in three dimensions. To do so, they turn to a technological tool that we all know so well: animation.
This research animation features the chikungunya virus, a sometimes debilitating, mosquito-borne pathogen transmitted mainly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The animation illustrates large amounts of research data to show how the chikungunya virus infects our cells and uses its specialized machinery to release its genetic material into the cell and seed future infections. Letâs take a look.
CHICAGO â A cell-free DNA blood-based test displayed 83% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection and 90% specificity in an average-risk population, similar to the performance of current noninvasive screening options.
âColorectal cancer screening is recommended for everyone in the United States,â Daniel Chung, MD, director of the High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School, told attendees at Digestive Disease Week. âBut, despite the widespread availability of many screening options, there remain persistent and significant barriers, and unfortunately, screening rates remain suboptimal. In fact, only 59% of eligible individuals aged 45 and over are adherent, which is well below the acceptance target rate of 80%.â
He added: âA blood-based screening test that can be completed as part of a routine health care visit presents a unique and attractive opportunity to increase adherence to colon cancer screening.â