Kgusler
@kgusler.bsky.social
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I post news mostly about science and medical related research. Some music might slip in here or there! My brain is curious and my heart is caring, so that makes me a democrat, at least in my eyes!
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Large cohort study links allergic rhinitis to higher risk of vision-threatening optic neuritis
Sungkyunkwan University researchers in Korea ran a nationwide cohort analysis linking allergic diseases to increased optic neuritis risk, with allergic rhinitis showing the strongest association.
medicalxpress.com
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'Google Maps' approach provides cell-by-cell tumor mapping for more personalized lung cancer treatment
Researchers have developed a way to predict how lung cancer cells will respond to different therapies, allowing people with the most common form of lung cancer to receive more effective individualized...
medicalxpress.com
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A Message in a Bottle from Another Star
For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted through interstellar space, its origin, a distant planetary system. This summer, that fragment finally entered our Solar System, becoming only...
www.universetoday.com
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Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories
Earth's atmosphere has always been the enemy of ground based astronomy and don’t I know it. What would otherwise be crisp, clean datasets gets turned into blurry smudges. Space telescopes avoid the pr...
www.universetoday.com
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In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump
New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.
www.npr.org
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Hippos survived the Ice Age in Europe, new DNA evidence reveals
Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial per...
phys.org
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Calcium could be key to solving stability issues in sodium-ion batteries
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are a promising, low-cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries for both personal electronics and large-scale energy storage, but their adoption is limited by their poor sta...
www.eurekalert.org
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Brain cell discoveries reshape understanding of psychiatric disorders
A trailblazing Genomic Press interview with Dr. Bruce M. Cohen explores how cutting-edge brain cell technology is providing revolutionary new information on the biological origins of psychiatric disor...
www.eurekalert.org
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Heart rate changes predict depression treatment success with magnetic brain stimulation
Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, have discovered that heart rate deceleration within the first 45 seconds of brain stimulation predicts treatment success in major ...
www.eurekalert.org
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Cognitive decline before and after mid-to-late-life smoking cessation: a longitudinal analysis of prospective cohort studies from 12 countries
In middle-aged and older smokers with initially similar cognitive trajectories, smokers
who quit subsequently had more favourable trajectories than continuing smokers regardless
of age at cessation. A...
www.thelancet.com
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Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field
Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South A...
www.esa.int
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The Sun’s hidden poles could finally reveal its greatest secrets
High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...
www.sciencedaily.com
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A telescope larger than Earth just revealed the hidden heart of a mysterious galaxy
Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and sh...
www.sciencedaily.com
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JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark matte...
www.sciencedaily.com
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Scientists build artificial neurons that work like real ones
UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with...
www.sciencedaily.com