Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ice cores could reveal future of sea level rise
The helicopter hovered overhead, whipping up snow. Shielding his face, Peter Neff grabbed the dangling cargo load and guided it to the Antarctic ice. The helicopter sped back to the South Korean icebreaker
RV Araon
, 20 kilometers away, to fetch more gear. One trip down, 17 more to go,
thought Neff, a polar glaciologist
at the University of Minnesota (UM) Twin Cities. Time was ticking away on this day in January. In the best-case scenario, Neff and his team would have just 10 days to drill ice cores on Canisteo, a peninsula on the west coast of Antarctica—and a blizzard was already looming.
Ever...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 18, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Claims of Anti-Christian Bias: A Cloaked Form of Racial Messaging?
To learn more, University of Washington News spoke with Clara Wilkins, an associate professor of psychology and Rosemary (Marah) Al-Kire, a postdoctoral research fellow of psychology (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 15, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability and Religion Source Type: news
Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism
Harvard University honesty researcher Francesca Gino, whose work has come under fire for suspected data falsification, may also have plagiarized passages in some of her high-profile publications.
A book chapter co-authored by Gino, who was found by a 2023 Harvard Business School (HBS) investigation to have
committed research misconduct
, contains numerous passages of text with striking similarities to 10 earlier sources. The sources include published papers and student theses, according to an analysis shared with
Science
by University of Montreal psychologist Erinn Acland.
Science
ha...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes
For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers. But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington professor and founding chief executive of the Allen Institute for A.I., became one of the first researchers to warn that a new breed of A.I.…#orenetzioni #alleninstitute #truemediaorg (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Manage Anxiety and Depression When You Have Kidney Cancer
When Katie Coleman was diagnosed at age 29 with a softball-sized tumor on her right kidney and a host of smaller growths in her liver, she was stunned. That astonishment quickly gave way to feelings of hopelessness. “I felt like my entire world was being pulled out from under me,” Coleman, now 32, says. “I went into a very dark spiral.”
Though her surgeon removed all the tumors, it wasn’t clear what her long- or even short- term prognosis was. What she found on the internet just freaked her out more. “One night I spiraled so deep I didn’t know whether life was worth living anymo...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Linda Carroll Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Neighborhood Poverty May Impact Women's Ovarian Reserves
FRIDAY, March 15, 2024 -- Living in a neighborhood with greater poverty in adulthood is tied to lower ovarian reserve, according to a study published online March 5 in Menopause.
Anwesha Pan, from the University of Washington in Seattle, and... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 15, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
‘I’m never going to be Tony’: Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor, vows a new direction at NIAID
When Jeanne Marrazzo started her residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in 1988, the world was a very different place. Marrazzo provided care for dying AIDS patients—mainly gay men and intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. “Stigma was alive and well and thriving, and in fact, really, really ugly at the time,” Marrazzo told an audience of young scientists on 3 March in Denver, just before the start of an HIV/AIDS conference. “You really sometimes had to work hard to get your patients what you needed. That made me interested in political and scientific advocacy and activism very early on.”
At th...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
University of Washington CT expert offers contrast conservation tips
It's definitely possible to reduce CT contrast volume, even in a busy radiology department, according to CT supervisor Gulnoor Sheriff at the University of Washington Medical Center, Montlake, in Seattle.
In fact, by taking practical action, Sheriff and colleagues have achieved an overall contrast volume reduction of more than 20% and saved the department $30,000 annually. How? In part through adopting new technology such as syringeless contrast injectors and making use of dual-energy CT scanners.
"Strategic investments in the right technology is key to CT contrast conservation, coupled with effective education and train...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 26, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
ADC optimal cutoff reduces MRI-prompted breast biopsies
Applying point-of-care apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) cutoffs from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) could reduce MRI-prompted breast biopsies, a study published February 13 in Radiology found.
Researchers led by Inyoung Youn, MD, PhD, from the University of Washington in Seattle found that applying these cutoffs led to a nearly 16% decrease in breast biopsies. They also reported a tradeoff of lowered sensitivity for in situ and microinvasive disease manifesting as nonmass enhancements.
“Our study results support adoption of [ADC] cutoffs in the clinical setting, with the caveat that radiologists may need to be mo...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news
At night, pollution keeps pollinating insects from smelling the flowers
Under the cover of darkness, countless moths and other insects furiously dart around woodlands and deserts, seeking nectar from night-blooming plants—and pollinating them in the process. But the scents the insects home in on have grown fainter. Nitrate radicals, a common pollutant, break them down before they can travel far, a research team reports today in
Science
. The team thinks the
olfactory disruption goes as far back as the Industrial Revolution
200 years ago.
The research, involving field studies, wind tunnel experiments, and the latest atmospheric models, has worrisome implications. For...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome
Researchers have crafted synthetic genomes for several types of bacteria, and
an 18-year-long project to do the same for brewer’s yeast is close to completion
. Now, a group in China has tackled a multicellular organism, synthesizing part of the genome of a type of moss. The achievement,
reported last week in
Nature Plants
, could smooth the way for creating artificial genomes for other multicellular organisms—and for turning the moss into a factory for medicines and other products.
The Chinese team only reworked part of one chromosome in its chosen species,
the spreading earthmo...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 30, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Gene therapies that let deaf children hear bring hope —and many questions
The past few months have brought electrifying news that, for the first time, a gene therapy has provided some hearing to children born with mutations that left them deaf. Eli Lilly
announced
this week, for example, that a profoundly deaf boy from Morocco given its treatment as part of a clinical trial in Philadelphia can now hear. And five children in China treated similarly at younger ages gained hearing with some able to verbally communicate without their cochlear implants. Their hearing recovery, first covered by the
press
in October 2023, is described in detail this week in
The Lancet
...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 26, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Getting More Education Can Help You Live Longer
Eating healthier foods, getting more sleep, and reducing stress can all help you live longer. But researchers reporting in the Lancet Public Health say that there’s another healthy habit that we shouldn’t forget: getting an education.
Analyzing data from hundreds of studies of people in 59 countries, the scientists studied the relationship between how many years of education people received and mortality. They found that people with more schooling tended to die later than those who had less. Every additional year of education reduced mortality by 2%.
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Source: TIME: Health - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Revealed: The three steps to prevent cervical cancer, according to a world-renowned expert
Professor Linda Eckert a Gynaecologist based at the University of Washington says she has 'reached the point of rage' as two women die from cervical cancer a day in the UK. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How To Watch Tonight ’s Michigan-Washington College Football Playoff Championship Game Online & On TV
Deadline may receive commission from some products and services linked in this post If only the Rose Bowl were hosting the College Football Playoff’s championship game. The top-ranked University of Michigan will battle the No. 2 University of Washington for the title Monday night indoors at NRG…#rosebowl #universityofmichigan #nrgstadium #houston #cfp #huskies #espn #chrisfowler #kirkherbstreit #hollyrowe (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
