Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains
A large study has found that women who used hormone therapy later in life had a lower risk of developing dementia. The findings were pu...
A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself
When laboratory mice experience brain damage, e.g., from an injection, Jan Deussing repeatedly notices the same response. A particular ...
Short- and long-term shifts in food purchasing behaviours and nutrition disparities in the USA during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
WHO Director-General’s Opening Remarks at the Media Briefing on COVID-19 (WHO, 2020).Declaring a National Emergency Concerni...
Getting started is not getting it right
The gap between what AI is reliable for and what it looks reliable for is where damage happens, and enablement failsHow to lead the cha...
Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
For decades, scientists have generally viewed the brain's immune system as largely separate from the immune defenses operating througho...
Uneven patterns of cross-border media coverage following natural disasters
Primary data sourcesWe drew on two primary data sources. First, we used the EMM, an open-source intelligence pl...
Why America’s prisons are shrinking and racial gaps are closing
Robey, J. P., Massoglia, M. & Light, M. T. A generational shift: race and the declining lifetime risk of imprisonment. D...
The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communiti...
What Star Wars got wrong about AI (so far)
Two generations learned what a thinking machine looks like from a production line of individuals and the picture is not holding. AI ass...