The use of the decimal point is a century and a half older than historians thought
Excerpt from Bianchini’s “Compositio instrumenti”. Reproduced with permission from the Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Cod. Lat. 145, f. 7r). Credit: ...
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New elderly care robot could soon provide personal assistance, improving quality of life for older people
General diagram of ADAM elements seen from the front and back. Credit: Frontiers of neurorobotics (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1337608 Around the ...
Older people rely more on confidence in decision-making. This could expose them to scams
Task performance for (A) younger and (B) older adults in the standard Iowa gaming task (IGT; dashed red line), the ...
Sexually transmitted infections among older people are a global public health challenge, study finds
Age-standardized incidence rates in 2019 and estimated annual percentage changes in incidence rates from 1990 to 2019 for HIV and ...
Climate change threatens older elephants most, jeopardizing their future
Simon Nampindo (standing) helping to collar an elephant in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. Credit: Clinton Mwebaze/WCS A collaborative team ...
Brain changes that cause pain sensitivity may affect older women more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain A new study has found that the brain system that allows us to inhibit our own ...
How the brains of healthy older people perceive color
Procedure of the color pupillometry experiment. Experimental stimuli consisted of 26 broad-spectrum color fields that were displayed in a dark ...
Trial shows fun home exercises can help prevent falls in older adults
smart±step is connected to a television screen and once a game of choice is selected, the person must step on ...
Researchers study why vaccines don’t work as well in some older people
Functional antibody response to PCV13 and PPSV23 in older adults. Credit: Natural immunology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41590-023-01717-5 An important aspect of ...
Study shows risk of dementia in older people with hearing loss could be reduced with hearing aid use
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain A large team of medical researchers affiliated with several Danish institutions analyzed data from a national ...
