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2 weeks ago | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
In the world of Harry Potter, one’s memory can be manipulated with the flick of a wand. Albus Dumbledore reels wispy memories out of his head and puts them in a Pensieve. If he later dunks his head in that magical basin, he can see his past experiences with lifelike clarity. Hermione Granger, meanwhile, uses the spell “Obliviate” to remove herself from her parents’ memories to protect them from the wizarding world. In real life, memories are not storable liquids or files that can simply be deleted.
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4 weeks ago | 
breastcancer.org | Andrea Tamayo
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1 month ago | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
Everything Is TuberculosisJohn GreenCrash Course Books, $28A few years ago, renowned author John Green met a boy named Henry at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Henry was small and, at first glance, looked about 9 years old to Green. Everyone at the hospital seemed to know and love him, making Green believe he was the child of a health care worker. That is until staff revealed that Henry was a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — and that he was 17.
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1 month ago | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
About 18 years ago, a 4-year-old girl with a rare nerve cell cancer received an infusion of immune cells that were genetically engineered to fight the disease. Since then, she has remained cancer-free, possibly making her the longest-surviving patient with cancer who received this tailored treatment, researchers report February 17 in Nature Medicine.
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1 month ago | 
snexplores.org | Carolyn Wilke |Andrea Tamayo
behavior: The way something, often a person or other organism, acts towards others, or conducts itself. biologist: A scientist involved in the study of living things. data: Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones.
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1 month ago | 
snexplores.org | Andrea Tamayo
Alzheimer’s disease: An incurable brain disease that can cause confusion, mood changes and problems with memory, language, behavior and problem solving. No cause or cure is known. attention: The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a specific object or event. behavior: The way something, often a person or other organism, acts towards others, or conducts itself. cell: (in biology) The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
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1 month ago | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air. Before the month’s end, 58 members were infected and five fell gravely ill. Across the United States, the virus wreaked havoc. Within weeks, thousands of people died, schools and businesses shuttered and 700,000 people lost their jobs.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
Citations B. Chan et al. Buprenorphine discontinuation in telehealth-only treatment for opioid use disorder: A longitudinal cohort analysis. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment. Vol. 167, December 2024, 209511. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209511. T. Liu et al. Primary care practice telehealth use and low-value care services. Jama Network Open. Published online November 7, 2024. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.45436. Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s fastest microscope, these superlative feats captured our imagination. Some 2.5 million years ago, an asteroid combusted in Earth’s atmosphere before it could hit the ground and leave a crater, making the event the oldest known midair explosion. That conclusion is based on a chemical analysis of nearly 120 microscopic rocks buried deep underneath Antarctic ice.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Andrea Tamayo
Rates of cervical cancer have decreased since a vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, was introduced in 2006 (SN: 10/6/08). Now, a new study is the first to show a steep decline in cervical cancer deaths among the first women who were eligible for that vaccine in the United States.
