Manuel Herz encloses curvilinear hospital in Senegal with lattice brickwork
Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects has unveiled the curvilinear Maternity and Paediatric Hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal, which is defined by its lattice-like brickwork. Read more Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects has unveiled the curv.....»»
Apple Vision Pro is motivating a giant California health provider
A hospital system in San Diego is now exploring how the Apple Vision Pro could be an indispensable tool beyond static data, but also for overlaying scans and other health information over a patient being examined.Apple Vision Pro could be used by doc.....»»
Apple Watch helps deputy sheriff discover lung blood clots that hospital originally missed
Apple Watch has been helping customers discover life-saving ailments for nearly a decade now. The latest is a situation out of Florida involving a deputy sheriff and a persistent warning from the watch. more….....»»
A new way to visualize brain cancer at the nanoscale level
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled unprecedentedly detailed images of brain cancer tissue through the use of a new microscopy technology called decrowding expansion patholog.....»»
Sahara dust shrouds Senegal capital prompting air quality warning
The Senegalese capital is usually bathed in sunshine but for a fourth consecutive day on Friday the city on the Atlantic coast was shrouded in a pallid cloud......»»
Study finds S. aureus" surface-sticking ability not evenly distributed over cell envelope
Infections caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus have a significant impact on human health, with tens of thousands of hospital patients dying every year from infections due to the S. aureus "superbug." Stopping the spread of bacteria like S......»»
Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find
Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Private equity firms are increasingly buying hospitals across the US, and when they do, patients suffe.....»»
New technique uses optical orbital angular momentum lattice to enhance information storage capacity
In the realm of optical holography, the conventional limitations of polarization, wavelength, and incident angle are giving way to a new era of possibilities. A breakthrough technique known as optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing has e.....»»
AI “Black Box” placed in more hospital operating rooms to improve safety
Questions about liability linger, but fans say it offers a trove of useful surgical data. Enlarge / A camera in a hospital. (credit: Getty | Arne Dedert) AI-powered surveillance technology is quickly making its way into.....»»
What do Threads, Mastodon, and hospital records have in common?
"Federated learning" keeps patient data at hospitals while training AIs. Enlarge (credit: Reza Estakhrian) It’s taken a while, but social media platforms now know that people prefer their information kept away from cor.....»»
Police raid gone wrong sends 17-month-old boy to hospital, Ohio family says
Police raid gone wrong sends 17-month-old boy to hospital, Ohio family says.....»»
A bride and groom spent their wedding night in hospital after the venue floor collapsed, sending them plummeting 13 feet
A bride and groom spent their wedding night in hospital after the venue floor collapsed, sending them plummeting 13 feet.....»»
Researchers develop algorithm to determine how cellular "neighborhoods" function in tissues
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new AI-powered algorithm to help understand how different cells organize themselves into particular tissues and communicate with one another. This new tool was tested on two.....»»
A new approach can address antibiotic resistance to Mycobacterium abscessus
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are tackling Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab) antibiotic resistance. This naturally antibiotic-resistant pathogen is becoming more prevalent, highlighting the urgent need for novel therapeutics. To add.....»»
Elusive cytonemes guide neural development, provide signaling "express route"
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists found that cytonemes (thin, long, hair-like projections on cells) are important during neural development. Cytonemes connect cells communicating across vast distances but are difficult to capture with.....»»
Engineers pair laser light to crystal lattice vibrations to enhance optical properties of 2D material
Engineers at Columbia University and theoretical collaborators at the Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have found that pairing laser light to crystal lattice vibrations can enhance the nonlinear optical properties of a layered 2D m.....»»
GPCR structure: Research reveals molecular origins of function for a key drug target
Through an international collaboration, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have leveraged data science, pharmacology and structural information to conduct an atomic-level investigation into how each amino acid in the receptor that bi.....»»
The hacker who leaked Grand Theft Auto VI has been sentenced
A U.K. court sentenced the hacker behind the 2022 leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 to an indefinite hospital order......»»
Embedding nanodiamonds in polymer can advance quantum computing and biological studies
A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the crystal structure of diamond, where a nitrogen atom replaces a carbon atom in the diamond lattice and a neighboring site in the lattice is vacant. This and other fluorescent defects in diamond, known.....»»
Researchers show excited electrons straightening the skewed lattice of perovskite nanocrystals
Researchers from ETH Zurich, Empa and Stanford have taken snapshots of the crystal structure of perovskite nanocrystals as it was deformed by excited electrons. To their surprise, the deformation straightened out the skewed crystal structure rather t.....»»
Google to pay Canada’s “link tax,” drops threat of removing news from search
Google previously threatened to remove Canadian news links from search and News. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Manuel Augusto Moreno) Google has agreed to pay Canadian news businesses $100 million a year to comply with.....»»