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A haunting song comes on the radio. A stranger on a bus has the same voice as an intimidating bully from your past. Whatever the trigger, it brings back something you'd rather forget as the past takes over, blurring the present.

Cardiovascular diseases are common among people living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Understanding drug utilization patterns in these populations is important for ensuring safe and effective ...

Teenage pregnancy is often explained in simple terms. Girls are said to lack knowledge about contraception, take sexual risks or make poor choices.

Crystals are usually thought of as rigid and brittle. Yet some molecular crystals can bend, jump, twist or even change shape when exposed to light. Understanding how tiny molecular movements inside an ordered crystal can ...

Ultrashort laser pulses can be used to generate X-rays. Normally, however, only certain specific frequencies are produced. A team from TU Wien and the University of California San Diego has developed a method that makes it ...

Imagine a neighbor who persistently claims you make noise at night. Others initially disagree, but the neighbor keeps trying to convince them. Their success depends not only on their stubbornness but also on how well connected ...

When prompts to draft work emails and job applications contain language commonly used by women, AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, offer less sophisticated responses than they do to requests for office correspondence containing ...

Photonic integrated circuits route information with optical signals instead of relying only on electrical currents. Silicon (Si) and silicon nitride (SiNx) are excellent photonic platforms for waveguides, but they cannot ...

Harnessing generative AI to help doctors make critical medical decisions requires more than raw technology. A new review study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that adapting existing language models is key ...

"I don't want the pain to define me. I want me to define me."

While burnout in the medical field is well documented, affecting about half of health care workers, far fewer studies have explored ways to address it. A Northwestern Medicine study has found one simple intervention may help.

As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue degeneration and inflammatory ...