Astronomers capture the most detailed image yet of our galaxy’s center

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Dozens of Medical Schools Back Kennedy Plan on Nutrition After Pressure

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the commitments in Washington, even as some in the medical community questioned whether the government should try to influence curriculums.
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Applauds Administration’s Effort to Expand Nutrition Education in Medical Schools, but Curriculum Must Be Based on S…

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today an agreement among 53 medical schools to conduct ...
The Island

The art and science of communicating with your little child

The two input gateways of communication, sight and sound, are quite well developed at birth. In fact, the auditory system becomes functional around 24 weeks in the womb, and the normal newborn can ...

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells to advance medicine

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...
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Mapping the brain: Inside an expanding frontier of neuroscience

ME. AT MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...
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Study Exercise Science

The College of Idaho offers both a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Exercise Science, which use exercise as the lens to analyze human performance and human health. Through the ...
Medical Xpress

Restoring confidence: Proposed standards to identify and measure microplastics in the human body

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new framework for scientists detecting and measuring microplastics in the human ...
The Conversation

AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers ...
Phys.org

What air pollution does to the human body

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...
Futurism

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...
Psychology Today

What Makes Men Attractive? Science Reveals the Ideal Body

What makes a man physically attractive? Many people think big muscles are the key, but recent scientific studies suggest otherwise. Research published in Personality and Individual Differences reveals ...