deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
FDA Investigates Stem Cell Clinics Selling Suspicious Treatments
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a plan today to crack down on stem cell clinics claiming they offer treatments for a variety of diseases, but don’t provide any scientific evidence that they work.…
Antarctic ice safety band at risk
[caption id="attachment_7590" align="alignright" width="170"] Astrolabe Glacier[/caption] Antarctica is surrounded by huge ice shelves. New research, using ice velocity data from satellites such as ESA’s heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where…
NASA Turns the Super Bowl Into Lesson in…
[caption id="attachment_7586" align="alignright" width="320"] Student intern Joe Burces at NASA’s Ames Research Center observes football in fluid dynamics chamber.Credits: NASA Ames / Dominic Hart[/caption] Aerodynamics is the study of how air and liquids, referred to…
Researchers developed a new method of measuring blood…
A group of researchers, led by Prof. Yuji Matsuura of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at Tohoku University, Japan, has developed a method of measuring blood glucose using far infrared light, which is both…