Almost one in 10 people in the US visited the hospital for nonfatal injuries in 2013 for a total cost of $1.8 trillion. Falls and being hit by objects were the most prevalent causes of injury.
Pregnant women recognize baby expressions differently depending on mental health history
A pilot study has found that pregnant women who have suffered from depression or bipolar disorder (i.e. both mania and depression) recognize babies’ faces and how babies laugh or cry, differently to healthy controls. This happens even if they are not currently experiencing depressive or manic symptoms and may represent an early risk-factor for children of these women, although the authors stress that research would be needed to confirm any long-term effects.
Novel technology enables detection of early-stage lung cancer when surgical cure still is possible
To improve outcomes for patients with non-small-cell lung carcinoma researchers are developing a blood test to detect lung cancer earlier in the disease. A report describes a new technology, electric field-induced release and measurement (EFIRM) that is both highly sensitive and specific in detecting two epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations associated with lung cancer in the blood of NSCLC patients with early-stage disease. This platform is relatively inexpensive and capable of high-throughput testing.
When is a nova not a nova? When a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collide
Astronomers have found for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.
A Long Goodbye to Baxter, a Gentle Giant Among Robots
Baxter is a legend in these early days of advanced robotics. But now its maker, Rethink Robotics, is folding.
The end of Telltale games: all the updates about the fall of the studio
OnePlus 6T: Removing the headphone jack was a tough decision, says CEO – CNET
In an exclusive interview, OnePlus’s CEO dishes on the 6T’s fingerprint sensor, lack of a headphone jack and a possible higher price.
iPhone XS beauty-gate: Here’s why your selfies look different on the new phone – CNET
Is there a so-called “beauty mode” on the iPhone XS?
This beautiful data visualization shows what Middle Eastern thinkers discovered long before the West
The history of scientific discovery is very focused on the discoveries of the West, so it’s wonderful to see this beautiful infographic from Information Is Beautiful, which visualizes what Middle Eastern thinkers discovered before their Western counterparts.
Drawing from books about Arab history, as well as Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Encyclopedia Britannica, the graphic plots the discoveries of East versus West, by year. For example, almost a thousand years before Copernicus, the Persian scientist Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī believed that the Sun was the center of the Solar System. And, almost 500 years before Columbus, the Iranian scholar Al-Bīrūni proposed that there was a land to the West — America.
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Homeland Security backs Apple and Amazon’s denials of Chinese microchip hack
Following last week’s bombshell report from Bloomberg Businessweek that claimed that Chinese spies infiltrated commercial servers in the US with hidden microchips, the Department of Homeland Security says that it has “no reason to doubt the statements from the companies named in the story.”
The statement concurs with what UK cybersecurity officials said on Friday: that they were aware of the reports, but didn’t have any reason to doubt Amazon and Apple’s forceful denials that their systems were compromised. DHS notes that it is aware of the report, and said that it recently launched several “government-industry initiatives to develop near- and long-term solutions to manage risk posed by the complex challenges of increasingly global…