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  • Lake deposits reveal directional shaking during devastating 1976 Guatemala earthquake

    Lake deposits reveal directional shaking during devastating 1976 Guatemala earthquake

    Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to researchers at the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting.

    The earthquake, which killed more than 23,000 people and left about 1.5 million people homeless, took place along the Motagua Fault, at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary.

    Severe ground shaking…

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  • AI Using What Nurses See Sinks Deaths Stunning 36%, But Grant Pulled

    AI Using What Nurses See Sinks Deaths Stunning 36%, But Grant Pulled

    An innovative use of artificial intelligence that essentially monitors hospital patients through the eyes of the nurses involved in care resulted in a stunning 36% drop in deaths. However, funding to extend the research with adults to sick children was abruptly…

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  • NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery

    NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery

    In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, the impact of NASA cuts, an FDA greenlight for BCIs, talking to dolphins with AI and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

    Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected what may be signs of life on a planet 124 light-years away: chemical signatures of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl…

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  • Early-life exposure to air and light pollution linked to increased risk of pediatric thyroid cancer

    Early-life exposure to air and light pollution linked to increased risk of pediatric thyroid cancer

    A new study led by researchers at Yale University suggests that early-life exposure to two widespread environmental pollutants — small particle air pollution and outdoor artificial light at night — could increase the risk of pediatric thyroid cancer.

    The study — a collaborative effort involving multiple Yale departments and institutions across the U.S. — found a “significant association” between exposure to ambient fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) and outdoor artificial…

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  • Insomnia and sleep medication use connected to disability in older adults

    Insomnia and sleep medication use connected to disability in older adults

    Insomnia is a significant health and quality of life concern for older adults, with up to half of all adults over the age of 65 experiencing insomnia symptoms. In a new study, researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and at Taipei Medical University analyzed five years of data from older adults in the United States. They found higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later.

    Every year a…

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  • A wearable smart insole can track how you walk, run and stand

    A wearable smart insole can track how you walk, run and stand

    A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson’s disease.

    Constructed using 22 small pressure sensors and fueled by small solar panels on the tops of shoes, the system offers real-time health tracking based on how a person walks, a biomechanical process that is as unique as a human fingerprint.

    This complex personal health data can then be transmitted via…

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  • Integrative approach reveals promising candidates for Alzheimer’s disease risk factors or targets for therapeutic intervention

    Integrative approach reveals promising candidates for Alzheimer’s disease risk factors or targets for therapeutic intervention

    A study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an avenue to explore potential biological markers and therapeutic targets.

    The researchers integrated computational and functional approaches that enabled…

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  • Researchers use machine learning to predict exercise adherence

    Researchers use machine learning to predict exercise adherence

    Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a University of Mississippi research team is using machine learning to uncover what keeps individuals committed to their workouts.

    The team — Seungbak Lee and Ju-Pil Choe, both doctoral students in physical education, and Minsoo Kang, professor of sport analytics in the Department of Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management — hopes to predict whether a person is meeting physical activity guidelines based on…

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  • Americans don’t think bird flu is a threat, study suggests

    Americans don’t think bird flu is a threat, study suggests

    In an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health, a team led by researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and preventing a larger-scale public health crisis.

    The authors, including CUNY SPH Assistant Professor Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Associate Professor Katarzyna Wyka, Professor Jeffrey V….

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  • Key enzyme in lipid metabolism linked to immune system aging

    Key enzyme in lipid metabolism linked to immune system aging

    Our immune systems weaken as we get older, making fewer cells that fight infection and help us recover from illness and injury. Scientists aren’t completely sure why. They may have a better idea now, however, thanks to a new study in GeroScience.

    “Immune cell changes occur during aging for a number of reasons, but we still don’t completely understand why we have fewer antibody-producing cells with age,” said Leslie Crews, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at University of California San…

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