by Ben Daviss A multidisciplinary team of medical scientists from the University of Nebraska and Temple University’s medical school have, for the first time, eradicated the HIV virus from infected animals. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The infection has been incurable, in part, because HIV weaves its own DNA into that of host...
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CHEAP NEW WAY TO CLEAN WATER
by Ben Daviss One person in ten around the world lacks ready access to clean water. Those people spend hours a day hauling water in buckets and pots from faraway sources. Solar stills – usually a black-bottomed vessel covered by a clear dome that water vapor condenses on – can pull clean water from dirty,...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PREDICTS PSYCHOSIS
by Ben Daviss Psychosis – the mental illness in which people hear voices and otherwise hallucinate – often pops up in early adulthood and is hard to predict. Psychologists have to rely on conversations and paper-and-pencil tests to make their best guesses about whether a person will break with reality. Artificial intelligence now offers a...
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HOW COOL IS THAT?
by Ben Daviss When an international team of scientists came together to find the greatest source of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, they found it’s not cars or cow farts: it’s refrigerants. But it won’t be much longer if a new technology from Europe can be commercialized. Demand for air conditioners, especially in the developing...