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Before cancer radiation therapy even begins, the first day of scanning and imaging often brings a rush of stress and anxiety, especially for children. The Shaare Zedek Cancer Center, set to open in the summer, hopes to change the experience of cancer treatment for patients, families and caregivers. (Courtesy of the Ruth and Meir Rosental Brain Imaging Center/Reichman University Innovation Center)

Futuristic Tech Brings Healing Relaxation To Radiotherapy

February 12, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Oncologist and neuroscientist collaborate on multisensory gadgets to enhance wellbeing for cancer patients, families and staff.
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Artist's impression of Dolly, a diplodocid herbivorous dinosaur that lived 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period. Scientists suggest she may have been infected with aspergillosis, which also affects modern birds. The pulmonary disease infecting this animal would not have been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward symptoms would have included coughing, labored breathing, nasal discharge, fever and weight loss. (Woodruff et al., 2022/Corbin Rainbolt)

Pass The Tissues: First Evidence Of Dinosaur Respiratory Infection

February 12, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

A fungal infection may have caused the cough that killed a gigantic diplodocus.
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GeoX AI-assisted mapping provides granular details about properties for insurance, management and planning purposes. Photo courtesy of GeoX

Would Your Building Survive An Extreme Weather Event?

February 11, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

FEMA and the World Bank are using 3D aerial maps created by an Israeli startup to protect residents from extreme weather.
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Kando technology checks wastewater for environmental and public-health purposes. Photo courtesy of Kando

Israel Using Sewage As Early-Warning System For Disease Outbreaks

February 11, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Analyzing wastewater provides surprisingly accurate detection of viral outbreaks in specific areas before anybody feels sick.�
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Beresheet's launch on February 21, 2019 in Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket. Photo courtesy of SpaceIL

Getting Ready To Land On The Moon, Again

February 11, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

SpaceIL’s co-founder talks about the Beresheet 1 mission, plans for Beresheet 2; hopes to spark children’s interest in space.
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Manatees are given romaine lettuce to eat when algae is scarce in the winter. (Florida Atlantic University/Getty images)

Seagrass Nursery To Serve Starving Manatees In Florida

February 11, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Over 1,000 manatees died of starvation last year due to the loss of seagrass, their primary food source.
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Rhesus macaques resting in the remnants of a forest that was destroyed when Hurricane Maria directly hit Cayo Santiago Island and Puerto Rico in September 2017. (Noah Snyder-Mackler, Arizona State University)

Survivors Of Weather Disasters May Age More Quickly

February 10, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Rhesus monkeys were found to have changed at the molecular level following Hurricane Maria.
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Roxy and Thea, who belong to a band of 45 chimpanzees living in Loango national park in Gabon, are being investigated by a team from Osnabrück University in Germany and the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project, led by cognitive biologist Simone Pika and primatologist Tobias Deschner. (Tobias Deschner)

Chimps Tend To Each Other’s Wounds By Putting Insects On Them

February 9, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Wound-tending behavior among apes has never been documented before, giving evidence of intra-species empathy.
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Two 10-day-old bananas; the bottom one is protected by a cellulose coating developed by the Empa research institute in Switzerland. (Manifesto Films, Lidl Schweiz, Empa/Zenger)

Swiss Researchers Team Up With Lidl To Create Packaging Made Of Fruit And Vegetable Peels

February 8, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Cellulose coating keeps fruit fresher longer and could help curtail both plastic packaging use and food waste.
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Developed by University of Delaware researchers, new technology may boost fuel-cell vehicle efficiency and offer improved carbon-scrubbing for spacecraft and submarines. (Jeffrey C. Chase)

New CO2 Scrubber Can Capture 99 Percent Of Carbon Dioxide From Air

February 8, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Researchers turned a disadvantage in some fuel cells into tech that offers efficiencies for fuel-cell vehicles and spacecraft.
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