For many women, body image and sex life may suffer after episiotomy
ANN ARBOR — Women who have episiotomies after childbirth reported having poorer body image and less satisfying sex lives than women who tear and heal naturally. (more…)
Technology
Blick in komplexe Lichtwellenformen
Mit einer neuen Methode lässt sich erstmals erfassen, wie sich das elektrische Feld von schwacher Strahlung bewegt
Einem internationalen Forschungsteam unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Sansone vom Physikalischen Institut der Universität Freiburg ist es erstmals gelungen, die komplexe Entwicklung des elektrischen Feldes von schwachen Lichtpulsen vollständig zu charakterisieren. Das Team hat seine Ergebnisse im Fachjournal „Nature Photonics” veröffentlicht. (more…)
Summary of WHO’s latest repot on antibiotic-resistant Gonorrhoea
There are recent cases of gonorrhoea, a common sexually-transmitted infection, which are untreatable by all known antibiotics. However, these cases are from developed countries. It could be even worse in developing or third-world countries. (more…)
Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on’; research switches it back to ‘off’
Even a single, brief stress can induce days of relapse to cocaine-seeking among rats, but a new study shows how the tendency to relapse persists and how to shut it down, suggesting a new pathway for developing addiction treatment medications. (more…)
Ein neues Auge für Dunkle Materie
XENON-Kollaboration stellt Messergebnisse des weltweit empfindlichsten Detektors vor
Astronomische Beobachtungen legen die Anwesenheit von Dunkler Materie als wesentlichen Bestandteil des Universums nahe. Sie müsste etwa fünfmal häufiger sein als normale, sichtbare Materie. Um ihre Existenz zu beweisen, suchen Forscherinnen und Forscher mit extrem empfindlichen Detektoren nach Wechselwirkungen der Dunkle-Materie-Teilchen mit normalen Teilchen. (more…)
IBM Report: Half of Surveyed Chief Executive Officers Plan to Adopt Cognitive Computing by 2019
73 percent of surveyed CEOs also say cognitive computing will play a key role in their organizations’ future
ARMONK, N.Y. – 06 Jul 2017: Cognitive computing has nearly endless possibilities to improve business processes and functions with 73 percent of surveyed CEOs in a recent IBM (NYSE: IBM) study citing it will play a key role in their organizations’ future and all executives in the study anticipating a 15 percent return on investment from their cognitive initiatives. (more…)
Hydraulic fracturing vs. Global Anti-Fracking Movement
First let’s get to understand what fracking is:
According to Environmental Protection Agency, hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, produces fractures in the rock formation that stimulate the flow of natural gas or oil, increasing the volumes that can be recovered. Wells may be drilled vertically hundreds to thousands of meters below the land surface and may include horizontal or directional sections extending thousands of meters. (more…)
Students may forget relevant information in order to protect their own psyches
UCLA-led study suggests people often don’t recall memories that threaten the way they want to see themselves
“What’s too painful to remember/ We simply choose to forget.”
– Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were”
UCLA-led research has found that students in a college mathematics course experienced a phenomenon similar to repression, the psychological process in which people forget emotional or traumatic events to protect themselves. (more…)