Category: 4. Health

The landmark discovery, led by an interdisciplinary team at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University, with collaborators in India and Australia, identified Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes plague, in a mass…

Quitting smoking cigarettes could enable a person with a substance abuse disorder to recover from their addiction to alcohol or drugs, a recent study stated. The findings highlighted that there was a 42% increase in the odds of an individual staying in recovery from their addiction to alcohol or drugs once they quit cigarettes for…

In an analysis of the genomes of all known amblyopsid species, the researchers found that the different species colonized caves systems independently of each other and separately evolved…

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at SpaceX’s successful Starship flight, IBM and AMD’s plan to make quantum computing practical, why runners should strength train and more. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here.

One of the most challenging aspects of adulthood is making decisions, such as who you choose to date or marry, how you invest your hard-earned money, or where you want to live and work. Although people often seek advice from others, they tend to disregard other people’s suggestions and instead use their own intuition and self-reflection to make big life…

Meet Moxi, a humanoid robot that has become a valued member of medical teams at hospital networks across the US. The brainchild of two remarkable experts in robotics, Moxi may be the shape of things to come in assuming routine tasks that can free up medical professionals to focus more on direct patient care.

In a world where technical innovation may dazzle but fail to…

From cold plunges to digital detox retreats—there are now so many ways to regulate the nervous system, we can get decision fatigue in the search for stress relief alone. But the solution may be simpler than we’d expect—rather than looking outside ourselves for the latest trending treatment or mindfulness product, we can find support by turning inward. Enter: the vagus nerve. An essential nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system (our “rest and digest” system).

An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria.

Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it through urine, researchers report in the Aug. 12 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The most common poisoning in the world is carbon monoxide poisoning,” says biochemist Mark Gladwin of the University of Maryland in Baltimore. In the United States alone, more…

To make such a network possible, so-called quantum network…