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23 hours ago | 
phys.org | Ingrid Fadelli |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
When placed under a powerful laser field (i.e., under strong-field ionization), electrons can temporarily cross the so-called quantum tunneling barrier, an energy barrier that they would typically be unable to overcome. This quantum mechanics phenomenon, known as quantum tunneling, has been the focus of numerous research studies.
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1 day ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Adam Taylor |Gaby Clark |Andrew Zinin
Ozempic and Wegovy have been hailed as wonder drugs when it comes to weight loss. But as the drug has become more widely used, a number of unintended side-effects have become apparent—with the weight loss drug affecting the appearance of everything from your butt to your feet. "Ozempic face" is another commonly reported consequences of using these popular weight loss drugs. This is a sunken or hollowed out appearance the face can take on in people taking weight loss drugs.
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2 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Ingrid Fadelli |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Throughout the course of their lives, humans can establish meaningful social connections with others, empathizing with them and sharing their experiences. People's ability to manage, perceive and understand the emotions experienced by both themselves and others is broadly referred to as emotional intelligence (EI).
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3 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Keith Martin |Gaby Clark |Andrew Zinin
Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates that it might be 20 times easier to crack such codes than previously thought. Cryptography underpins the security of almost everything in cyberspace, from wifi to banking to digital currencies such as bitcoin.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Christine Buckley |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
When assistant professor of communication Amanda Cooper was in graduate school, her grandparents began to decline. She watched her large family, comprising of her father, his nine siblings, and 50 of her first cousins rally around her grandparents. Because their home was in the Idaho woods, near Yellowstone National Park, their distance from the hospital meant they needed round-the-clock care. "It's like a crazy storm hits your family," she says.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Jerry Grillo |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who'd been grappling with Alzheimer's disease. "I hadn't seen her in six years, but she recognized me," said Jeong, a former graduate researcher in the lab of Annabelle Singer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. "I didn't expect that.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Olivia Hall |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Dogs share our homes, our habits and sometimes, our diseases. Gastric cancer is rare in dogs, but when it does strike, it closely resembles gastric cancer in humans: subtle clinical signs, comparable tumor subtypes, late-stage diagnosis and poor outcomes. That similarity, combined with unique genetics, makes purebred dogs a powerful model for studying this devastating disease, which is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Ingrid Fadelli |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Depression, characterized by persistent sadness, hopelessness and a lack of interest in previously enjoyed activities, is one of the most common mental health disorders. Recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest that approximately 5% of the global population suffers from depression. For decades, researchers have been trying to devise safe and effective treatments for depression that cause minimal or no side effects.
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6 days ago | 
phys.org | Justin Jackson |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument rises in tiers of sculpted marble, sunlight appears to have been drawn into the heart of the tomb timed to the winter solstice. There was a time when humans paid a great deal of attention to the heavens.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Alistair Jones |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Imagine waking up in a foreign country where you do not speak the language and have no understanding of social etiquette, much less the norms or expectations for engaging with others. This would surely be stressful. In fact, extensive research has found that people do experience stress when interacting with individuals from backgrounds that are different from their own.
