Lifeboat Foundation

123 posts by Michael Taylor

• Lake and river foams study reveals high PFAS levels, even though underlying water may be less contaminated – July 9, 2024
• Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group – June 27, 2024
• New research points to possibility for testing to explore early-stage Alzheimer’s disease – June 24, 2024
• ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability—but it can improve – June 23, 2024
• U.S. men die nearly six years before women, as life expectancy gap widens – November 14, 2023
• Researchers develop network slicing technique for low-Earth orbit satellite communications – July 7, 2023
• Tiny nanopores can contribute to faster identification of diseases – June 15, 2023
• Reindeer show great performance at following human-given indications – June 12, 2023
• Engineered white blood cells can eliminate cancer, shows study – June 12, 2023
• Oceans warmer last month than any May on record – June 7, 2023
• ChatGPT designs its first robot – June 7, 2023
• Human factors affect bees’ communication, researchers find – June 5, 2023
• A shocking number of birds are in trouble – June 4, 2023
• ‘Hot pixels’ attack steals data through CPU readings – June 3, 2023
• As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking – May 29, 2023
• A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation – May 29, 2023
• Storing hydrogen in coal may help power clean energy economy – May 29, 2023
• The number of billion-dollar disasters from severe US storms is on the rise – May 29, 2023
• Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials – May 28, 2023
• Embracing chatGPT in the financial technology classroom – May 26, 2023
• A first step to designing better solid-state batteries – May 24, 2023
• Soft e-skin that communicates with the brain – May 20, 2023
• Machine-learning program reveals genes responsible for sex-specific differences in Alzheimer’s disease progression – May 20, 2023
• Stuck antenna freed on Jupiter-bound spacecraft – May 13, 2023
• Scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth – March 10, 2023
• Enzyme ATE1 plays role in cellular stress response, opening door to new therapeutic targets – March 10, 2023
• Study suggests changes in gambling behavior linked to suicide risk in young adults – March 1, 2023
• Quantum chemistry: Molecules caught tunneling – March 1, 2023
• Better metric for prioritizing conservation of ‘evolutionarily distinctive’ species – February 28, 2023
• Social deficits and seizures in autism genetic subtype tied to overexcited brain circuits – February 28, 2023
• Super-fast insect urination powered by the physics of superpropulsion – February 28, 2023
• Liquid nitrogen spray could clean up stubborn moon dust – February 28, 2023
• ‘Building blocks of life’ recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself – February 28, 2023
• Researcher develops new methods to measure ‘forever chemicals’ in both the atmosphere and in aerosol particles – February 27, 2023
• New testing approach diagnoses COVID-19 with near-perfect accuracy – February 27, 2023
• The weight of responsibility: Biomass of livestock dwarfs that of wild mammals – February 27, 2023
• Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo – February 26, 2023
• Unexpected protein interactions needed to build flowers – February 26, 2023
• A new epigenetic brain defense against recurrence of opioid use – February 25, 2023
• Psychedelics may help people reinvent themselves – February 24, 2023
• Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species – February 24, 2023
• Researchers link supplement to reduced biomarkers of Alzheimer’s in the brain – February 24, 2023
• Number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August-September 2022 was highest since 2010 – February 14, 2023
• Coral reefs in the Eastern Pacific could survive into the 2060s, new study finds – February 13, 2023
• EPA says contaminated soil was covered to rebuild rail line – February 13, 2023
• The Supreme Court may overhaul how you live online – February 13, 2023
• Residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens as authorities say it’s safe to return – February 13, 2023
• Beach erosion: Satellites reveal how climate cycles impact coastlines – February 12, 2023
• European farms mix things up to guard against food-supply shocks – January 27, 2023
• Device transmits radio waves with almost no power—without violating the laws of physics – January 24, 2023
• Tiny ion is crucial for HIV replication, say chemists – January 24, 2023
• ChatGPT found to be capable of passing exams for MBA and Medical Licensing Exam – January 24, 2023
• Study suggests a paradigm shift in our understanding of gamma ray bursts – January 24, 2023
• Researchers derive a unified topological speed limit for the evolution of physical states – January 24, 2023
• Geometry of brain, dimensions of mind: Researchers identify new ways to characterize states of consciousness – January 6, 2023
• A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate – December 25, 2022
• Speeding up bone healing in menopausal females – December 14, 2022
• Potential new treatment for ‘brain fog’ in long COVID patients – December 14, 2022
• A robust self-healing polymer made from a common chemical – December 14, 2022
• Study shows hazardous herbicide chemical goes airborne – October 27, 2022
• Toward next‐generation lava flow forecasting: Development of a fast, physics‐based lava propagation model – October 27, 2022
• Insect-eating mushroom could produce new antiviral and cancer drugs – October 22, 2022
• 8-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Using Robotic Exoskeleton – October 22, 2022
• ‘Forever chemicals’ found in water systems serving millions: GAO – October 22, 2022
• Reducing noise pollution with acoustic walls and rubberised roads – October 22, 2022
• Scientists discover they can pull water molecules apart using graphene electrodes – October 7, 2022
• As winters warm, nutrient pollution threatens 40 percent of US – October 5, 2022
• Heat-loving bacteria from an Antarctic volcano could help tackle oil contamination – October 3, 2022
• ‘Iconic’ plant family at risk: Scientists estimate more than half of palm species may be threatened with extinction – September 27, 2022
• The invention of a flexible endoscope thinner than a needle – September 5, 2022
• New study says rainwater is now unsafe to drink – August 16, 2022
• Inefficient building electrification risks prolonging fossil fuel use – July 28, 2022
• Natural clean-up: Bacteria can remove plastic pollution from lakes – July 26, 2022
• Strange new phase of matter created in quantum computer acts like it has two time dimensions – July 20, 2022
• Nanomembrane system could help diagnose diseases – July 20, 2022
• Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction—And It’s Making a Comeback – July 6, 2022
• Methane converted into methanol at room temperature — just add light – July 2, 2022
• Monkeypox found to be evolving at a faster rate than expected – June 28, 2022
• Lyme Disease Is Even More Common Than Experts Realized, New Research Finds – June 23, 2022
• Scientists serendipitously discover rare cluster compound – June 18, 2022
• Synapse Study Explores the “Dark Matter of the Brain” – June 10, 2022
• Scientists cover robotic finger with living skin made from human cells – June 9, 2022
• Training a robot to recognize and pour water – June 9, 2022
• World Bank warns world economy in danger as “stagflation risk rises” – June 8, 2022
• Common drug-resistant superbug develops fast resistance to ‘last resort’ antibiotic – June 7, 2022
• A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down—if it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia – June 7, 2022
• ‘This might be a housing bubble,’ says Dallas Fed economist—here’s an exclusive look at the latest housing market analysis – June 3, 2022
• Global plastic use and waste on track to triple by 2060 – June 3, 2022
• Study finds groundwater depletion causes California farmland to sink, suggests countermeasures – June 3, 2022
• 21 oil wells now found leaking methane near California homes – June 3, 2022
• Genetic data indicate at least two separate monkeypox outbreaks underway, suggesting wider spread – June 3, 2022
• Why the search for a privacy-preserving data sharing mechanism is failing – June 2, 2022
• Previously unnoticed mathematical property of cosmological models discovered – May 28, 2022
• WOW! Sugar Found In Ocean Waters Reportedly Equivalent To 32 Billion Coca Cola Cans – May 25, 2022
• Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air – May 24, 2022
• Scientists just brought light-sensing cells in human eyes back to life – May 13, 2022
• Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS – May 12, 2022
• MDMA for PTSD just crushed its phase 3 trial – May 12, 2022
• A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the Moon – May 12, 2022
• Drone swarms can now fly autonomously through thick forest – May 8, 2022
• Storing 25 exabytes in a 2-inch Kenzan diamond wafer – May 3, 2022
• Have a protein you want inhibited? New software can design a blocker – March 26, 2022
• A way to deliver oxygen directly to the bloodstream intravenously – March 24, 2022
• Protein subunit COVID vaccine, which can be manufactured using engineered yeast, shows promise in preclinical studies – March 17, 2022
• Facial recognition in schools: Here are the risks to children – October 29, 2021
• Serious Concerns That AI Self-Driving Cars Cybersecurity Will Be A Hacker Leak Like An Open Sieve – October 28, 2021
• World facing ‘catastrophe’ as countries’ climate commitments fall far short — UN – October 27, 2021
• Successful artificial reefs depend on getting the context right due to complex socio-bio-economic interactions – October 12, 2021
• Greenlight for Ivermectin in Japan – August 29, 2021
• Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve – July 23, 2021
• Two-for-Tuesday vulnerabilities send Windows and Linux users scrambling – July 20, 2021
• Studies suggest finding automatic ways to spot fake news may be more complicated than anticipated – June 22, 2021
• Human-generated noise can contribute to deplete Seagrass Posidonia populations – June 15, 2021
• How might Earths atmosphere, land, and ocean systems respond to changes in carbon dioxide over time? – June 11, 2021
• The dark personality trait known as Machiavellianism predicts support for mind upload technology – June 9, 2021
• Researchers create new CRISPR tools to help contain mosquito disease transmission – May 28, 2021
• The Biohacking Movement And Open Source Insulin – May 28, 2021
• Floating ocean plastic can get a boost to its wave-induced transport because of its size – May 27, 2021
• The efficacy and safety of Favipiravir in treatment of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials – May 26, 2021
• Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen of Wnt/β-catenin signaling identifies therapeutic targets for colorectal cancer – May 25, 2021
• RAB39B-mediated trafficking of the GluA2-AMPAR subunit controls dendritic spine maturation and intellectual disability-related behaviour – May 25, 2021
• Science Gets Closer To Making Human-Animal Chimeras – May 24, 2021
• Antibiofilm and antivirulence potential of silver nanoparticles against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii – May 24, 2021