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Ever get stuck trying to solve a puzzle? You look for a pattern, or a rule, and you just can’t spot it. So you back up and start over. That’s your brain recognizing that your current strategy isn’t working, and that you need a new way to solve the problem, according to new research from […]
Kristina “Kat” K. was working her shift at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina on December 3, when a Wings of Rescue plane touched down. On the plane were nearly 20 dogs recently rescued from an overwhelmed owner in Texas and on their way to a variety of animal shelters. As Kat peered into […]
As average temperatures around the globe climb, a preliminary study has found people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may expect worsening symptoms, enough to send them to the hospital more often. The preliminary study released today, March 2, 2021, will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 73rd Annual Meeting being held virtually April 17 […]
On February 26, the ASPCA led a coalition of 65 non-profits, farming groups, and companies that envision a brighter future for agriculture, animals, people and the environment, in sending a letter to newly confirmed U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Vilsack. The letter urges Secretary Vilsack to take action on three vital issues that will improve […]
An open-source platform, OpenEP co-developed by researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London has been made available to advance research on atrial fibrillation, a condition characterized by an irregular and often fast heartbeat. It can cause significant symptoms such as breathlessness, palpitations and fatigue, as well as being […]
The Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) publishes the South African Child Gauge annually to review the status of children in South Africa and to inform policy and programming. The South African Child Gauge 2020 was launched on 18 February in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) […]
Humor helps us deal with the stress of juggling work and family commitments, but only when we seek it out, according to a new study led by The Australian National University (ANU). It turns out colleagues sending us cat videos to make us laugh before an important meeting might actually be making our blood pressure […]
While some people in the U.S. have already received the COVID-19 vaccine, there’s a lot of confusion about what they can and cannot do after getting it. We know that, per advice from infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, people shouldn’t be doing any unnecessary traveling yet, even if they’ve been vaccinated. We also know […]
The number of young adults without health insurance has plummeted since 2011, largely thanks to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which allowed more adults to qualify for the publicly funded health program, according to a new report by the Urban Institute. Young adults have historically had high uninsured rates because they are less […]
Hippocampal time cells can encode specific moments of organized experiences in time to support hippocampal functions of episodic memory. But little is known about the reorganization of time cells during timely changes of episodes. Akihiro Shimbo and a research team at the Riken center for brain science and the department of psychology, Keio University in […]