In 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven asked his brothers to request that his doctor, J.A. Schmidt, describe his health problems—his progressive hearing loss—to the world upon his death so that “as far as possible, at least the world will be reconciled to me after my death.”
The first step in our ability to see is the microscopic change of a protein called rhodopsin found in the retina. This protein is responsible for converting light into signals that our brain can interpret to form images. The process occurs within an incredibly small time frame, taking only a picosecond or one-trillionth of a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed around 7 million people worldwide (1.1 million in the United States) and made many more people sick. Vaccines and antiviral treatments helped save many lives and reduce sickness.
Cases of Candida auris, a highly contagious fungal infection, increased drastically between 2019 and 2021, and echinocandin-resistant cases also rose.
Over the past century, IQ scores in the United States have shown a significant increase. According to a phenomenon known as the “Flynn effect,” IQ scores have been increasing by around three to five points per decade. However, a recent study by Northwestern University found evidence of a reverse Flynn effect in a large U.S.…
Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. In order to make future space construction more feasible, it will be necessary to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts. StarCrete offers one possible solution.
Recently, a team of Japanese researchers has identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5 variant prevalent in the Western hemisphere, which has high transmissibility and infectivity, and is a cause of concern for public health.
In June 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made one of its first observations, capturing the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star in unprecedented detail. The star, WR 124, is located in the constellation Sagittarius and is 15,000 light-years away.
A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease.
During the pandemic, medical doctors and researchers noticed that children and adolescents infected with COVID-19 became less ill than adults. A possible explanation for this is that children already had a prior level of immunity to COVID-19 provided by memory T cells generated by common colds.
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Child Fund of America
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