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Researchers Warn: Common Antidepressant Should No Longer Be Used To Treat People With Dementia

A drug used to treat agitation in people with dementia is no more effective than a placebo, and might even increase mortality, according to a new study. A drug used to treat agitation in people...

The Russian director and actor returned from the ISS with a film

The Russian film director and actress, who stayed on board the International Space Station for 12 days to shoot the first film in space, returned safely to Earth, world agencies reported. The landing capsule of...

New Galaxy Images From the Most Powerful Telescopes Reveal a Fitful Start to the Universe

Image from SHARDS study. Credit: SHARDS research team New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in the Universe and suggest the formation of the galaxy got off...

4 Reasons Americans Are Still Seeing Empty Shelves and Long Waits – With No End in Sight

Consumers are still finding bare store shelves. Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every type of product – from toilet paper and sneakers to pickup...

The first completely solar-powered cable car in the world (as of 2012) is in Switzerland

It connects Wildhaus with the Gamplüt Alp. The maximum speed of the cable car is 19.8 km/h. The photovoltaic systems on the roof of the mountain restaurant and the machine hall supply about as...

FIFA proposes that referees explain their decisions publicly

Arsen Wenger, the director of global football development at the International Football Federation (FIFA), believes that football referees should explain their decisions publicly. According to the Frenchman, the referees should give press conferences after...

We Asked a NASA Technologist: Is There Weather on Mars? [Video]

Is there weather on Mars? Short answer: yes! And just like on Earth it varies wildly. Now, thanks to the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, or MEDA instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover, we’re learning...

Infrared Light Therapy Might Help People Living With Dementia

Tracy Sloan with the infrared light therapy helmet. Tracy used the helmet to try and help improve her memory. Credit: Durham University/North News & Pictures Infrared light therapy might have the potential to help people...

Clinical Trial Has Found Interferon Does Not Help Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19

A clinical trial has found that treatment with the immunomodulator interferon beta-1a plus the antiviral remdesivir was not superior to treatment with remdesivir alone in... The post Clinical Trial Has Found Interferon Does Not Help...

The oldest skis discovered in the ice of Norway

As a result of the melting ice, archaeologists have found in Norway a pair of wooden skis of amazing preservation, almost 1,300 years old. I must say that the first ski was discovered in the...

New robot that can walk and fly created

LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying. Researchers at Caltech have created a fearsome robot that can walk on two slender legs and even fly around our world. The...

CV for Celebrities

Eneya Georgieva, editor at Forbes, reflects the successes of Bulgarian entrepreneurs with a focus on the startup ecosystem, technology and social entrepreneurship at https://forbesbulgaria.com. When, two years after its inception, a company is still unable...

Electrodes in the brain replace painkillers

Stimulation with ultra-thin microelectrodes has no side effects, scientists say. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method of stimulating with ultra-thin microelectrodes to treat severe pain, according to the online edition...

Petar Vitanov: We do not want to stop technological progress, but to guarantee basic human rights

"We are trying to limit the use of artificial intelligence in those areas where we see it as a serious problem for the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens. Evaluations of this type of application...

Bacteria Evolved a Multitude of Defense Systems That Offer Strong Immunity for Protection Against Viruses

Credit: Dr. Tim Blower, Durham University A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, Northumbria University and New England Biolabs, hopes to exploit newly...

Extreme Geophysics: Quantum Phase Transition Detected on a Global Scale Deep Inside the Earth

Illustration to accompany Nature Communications paper, “Seismological expression of the iron spin crossover in ferropericlase in the Earth’s lower mantle.” Credit: Nicoletta Barolini/Columbia Engineering Multidisciplinary team of materials physicists and geophysicists combine theoretical predictions, simulations,...

Planetary Defense: Physicists Propose New Way To Defend Earth Against Cosmic Impacts

Is Planetary Defense PI in the Sky? In February of 2013, skywatchers around the world turned their attention toward asteroid 2012 DA14, a cosmic rock about 150 feet (50 meters) in diameter that was going...

International Observe the Moon Night: 10 Ways To Observe the Moon

Believe it or not, observing the Moon is something you can do no matter the weather, time of day, or location! We interpret “observe” very broadly. There are so many ways to celebrate and...

Research Team Unlocks Secret Path to a Bright Quantum Future

Artist’s illustration of hydrodynamical behavior from an interacting ensemble of quantum spin defects in diamond. Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab-led research key to next-gen quantum computing and technologies. In 1998, researchers including Mark Kubinec of...

The CEO of J.P. Morgan: Bitcoin is useless

This summer J.P. Morgan gave its customers access to cryptocurrency funds The CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co Jamie Dimon told a conference on Monday that cryptocurrencies would be regulated by governments and that...

Passengers in Moscow buy a subway ticket with facial recognition

Many of us happen to be looking for the wallet with the public transport card or ticket pennies, which are usually always at the bottom of the bag. While we are looking forward to...

EU plan to replace diesel trucks with electric ones

In early 2021, the EU has set a target of 20,000 environmentally friendly vehicles by 2030 The shift to electric vehicles will affect not only car manufacturers but also trucks. They will also be forced...

Not Science Fiction: German Scientists Harness the Power of Photosynthesis for New Way To “Breathe”

The injected green algae (green) sit inside the blood vessels (magenta) like a string of pearls. Credit: Özugur et al./iScience Photosynthesizing algae injected into the blood vessels of tadpoles supply oxygen to their brains. Leading a...

New Understanding of the Arctic’s Carbon Cycle – How Carbon Is Transferred Between Land, Ocean, and Atmosphere

Eroding cliff bluffs adjacent to Elson Lagoon near Utqiagvik, Alaska. Credit: Michael Rawlins New research from UMass Amherst shines light on poorly understood processes of how carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world. In a...

British Medical Journal: Daily Use of CBD Oil May Be Linked to Lung Cancer Regression

May be worth further exploring cannabinoids as potential cancer treatment, say researchers. It may be worth exploring further the use of cannabidiol (‘CBD’) oil as a potential lung cancer treatment, suggest doctors in BMJ Case Reports...
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