Tiger Woods said what needed to be said. Now let him do the work

There are moments in sports when the update itself matters. Then there are moments when the response to the update reveals ...

Giant Study Reveals Why Some Viruses Hide Inside Your Body For Life

The data revealed 82 specific locations (or loci) in the human genome associated with viral DNA load, especially in the Major ...
PlasticsToday

Gloves Off: How Lab Gear May Skew Microplastics Data

Study shows lab gloves release stearates, inflating microplastics data. Cleanroom gloves improve research accuracy.
Stars and Stripes

Fort Hood medics go underground to train emergency combat care

The training intends to prepare troops for future wars that could be fought underground because munitions targeting has ...

How time and space become one inside your brain—and what it means for Alzheimer's

If you develop Alzheimer's disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your sense of place. Could time ...
Futurism

You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You’d Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packagi…

Researchers found that plastic gloves can transfer microplastic particles onto environmental samples, potentially skewing ...

'St. Denis Medical' FINALLY Gave Us The Kiss We've Been Waiting For, And We're Swooning So Damn Hard

If you haven’t watched St. Denis Medical Season 2’s penultimate episode yet, get on it STAT! I didn’t go to medical school, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Did Neanderthals Use Birch Bark Tar as an Antibiotic to Treat Wounds and Infections?

Scientists created samples of the black resin using three methods and tested their effectiveness against two common bacteria ...
Psychology Today

When It Comes to Microdosing Psychedelics, Users Best Beware

Many of those who microdose psychedelics do so to feel less anxious or depressed, or enhance mental sharpness and boost ...

How to sound like an astronaut as you follow the first human moon mission in more than half a century

Don’t know the difference between the ground launch sequencer and the ICPS for the Artemis II mission? Here’s everything you ...
MIT Technology Review

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

Specialized chatbots might make a difference for people with limited health-care access. Without more testing, we don't know ...
IEEE

Data Augmentation: Synthetic Image Generation for Medical Images Using Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized medical imaging, significantly improving diagnostic accuracy via the evaluation of X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans. However, the effectiveness of ...