New Research Reveals How Nuclear War Would Affect Earth Today
The threat of nuclear warfare is back to the forefront following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But how would modern nuclear weapon detonations impact the world…
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Reducing Protein in Diet Improves Health and Extends Lifespan
A Single Hormone Directs Body’s Responses to Low-Protein Diet. Mice live longer and lose weight while eating more when the hormone FGF21 is present. A…
Particle Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Report First-of-Its-Kind Neutrino Measurement
For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
Potential Supplement for Longer Human Lifespans: Natural Plant Extract Makes Worms Live 40% Longer
First study on how a natural plant extract of a particular kind of wormwood, Artemisia scoparia, could lead to longer lifespans, including potentially for humans….
Black Hole Event Horizons Are Tunable Factories of Quantum Entanglement
LSU physicists’ research findings open a promising avenue for confirming the quantum origin of the Hawking radiation. LSU physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques…
Metallic Nanostructures for Generating Exotic Forms of Light
LSU Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources. For decades, scholars have believed that the quantum statistical properties of bosons are preserved…
Octo-Tiger: Breakthrough Astrophysics Code Rapidly Models Stellar Collisions
“Octo-Tiger,” a breakthrough astrophysics code, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to…
Self-Learning, Self-Evolving Smart Quantum Technologies for Secure Communication
Researchers from Louisiana State University have introduced a smart quantum technology for the spatial mode correction of single photons. In a paper featured on the…
Mural Painted More Than 2,500 Years Ago Depicts Salt as an Ancient Maya Commodity at a Marketplace
The first documented record of salt as an ancient Maya commodity at a marketplace is depicted in a mural painted more than 2,500 years ago…
Tracking COVID-19 Trends in Hard-Hit States Using Computational Models
Currently, there are over 10 million confirmed cases and more than 240,000 casualties attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. LSU researchers have applied computational models…
Physicists Quiet the Quantum Whisper to Improve Gravitational Wave Detector Sensitivity
By quieting the quantum whisper, we can now listen to the more subtle notes of the cosmic symphony. Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new…
New Research Explains Multipronged SARS-CoV-2 Attack and Widepread COVID-19 Infection
A study of a gateway receptor for SARS-CoV-2 led by Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Ophthalmology at LSU Health New Orleans’…
Better Tool Created to Aid COVID-19 Diagnosis
A Louisiana State University Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed up to show the same techniques used for research on reptile and…
Doctors Shocked by Heart Damage in COVID-19 Patients – Unique Pattern of Cell Death Revealed by Autopsies
A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical…
Binary Star V Sagittae Will Explode by Century’s End – “Startlingly Bright in the Night Sky”
LSU astronomy researchers estimate the peak of brightness and explosion of luminous star brighter than any other in the Milky Way Galaxy. Currently, the faint…
Spaceflight Medical Risk 200+ Miles Above Earth: Astronaut Has Blood Clot in Jugular Vein
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead…
Study Shows That it is Possible to Clone Quantum Information from the Past
A newly published study shows that it is possible to clone quantum information from the past, allowing for a particle, or a time traveler, to…
