Vigilant monitoring is needed to manage cardiac risks in patients using antipsychotics, doctors say

The use of the antipsychotic drugs quetiapine and haloperidolis associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) caused by drug-induced QT prolongation, reports a new study in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by … Read more

Fossil holdfasts show kelp far predate animals we see in kelp forests today

An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue). Credit: Dula Parkinson/Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific Coast support a varied ecosystem that was thought to have evolved … Read more

Physicists identify overlooked uncertainty in real-world experiments

The equations that describe physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system — temperature or chemical potential, for example — can be known exactly. But the real world is messier than that, and uncertainty is unavoidable. Temperatures fluctuate, instruments malfunction, the environment interferes, and systems evolve over time. The rules of statistical physics … Read more

Climate change threatens global forest carbon sequestration, study finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Climate change is reshaping forests differently across the United States, according to a new analysis of U.S. Forest Service data. With rising temperatures, escalating droughts, wildfires, and disease outbreaks taking a toll on trees, researchers warn that forests across the American West are bearing the brunt of the consequences. The study, … Read more

Emmys 2024 LIVE: Succession leads nominations ahead of TV’s biggest awards red carpet

Succession final season trailer Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will finally be held on Monday (15 January) following a four-month delay. The annual celebration of the year’s best TV shows takes place half … Read more

Chasing the light: Study finds new clues about warming in the Arctic

The Arctic, Earth’s icy crown, is experiencing a climate crisis like no other. It’s heating up at a furious pace — four times faster than the rest of our planet. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are pulling back the curtain on the reduction of sunlight reflectivity, or albedo, which is supercharging the Arctic’s warming. The … Read more

Obtaining hydrogen from vine shoots for biofuel production

Credit: Industrial Crops and Products (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2023.117317 A research team from the universities of Jaén and São Paulo in Brazil has confirmed that hydrogen can be obtained from vine shoots through a process that does not require fossil fuels and does not emit pollutants. With their work, they manage to give new value to … Read more

Annotated version of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on human anatomy up for auction | Science

When the Renaissance physician Andreas Vesalius wrote his magnum opus on human anatomy in 1543, he transformed the study of medicine and revolutionised the way scientists investigate the world. A “mind-blowing” edition of his De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, estimated to be worth up to £1m, is to be sold at auction for the … Read more