Oxygen chamber can boost brain repair years after stroke or trauma
Volume rendered Brain SPECT perfusion maps. The results are of a patient in the treated group suffering from left hemiparesis due to ischemic stroke...
Oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses brain damage in drowned toddler
A low-risk medical treatment appears to have had a profound effect on the recovery of a toddler-age drowning victim who suffered serious neurological damage.
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Is this Gulf of Mexico tubeworm the longest living animal in the world?
The tubeworm species Escarpia laminata.
Credit: Image courtesy of the Chemo III project, BOEM and NOAA OER
Large tubeworms living in the cold depths of the...
Dig it! Two new shrimp species found in burrows at the bottom of the...
This is a female specimen of the new shrimp species Alpheus margaritae.
Credit: Dr. José Salgado-Barragán CC-BY 4.0
Although the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in...
The past, present and future of African dust
Arrival of a density current made visible by the soil particles it lifts as it progresses, in Hombori, Mali. This phenomenon, which is of...
Oil impairs ability of coral reef fish to find homes and evade predators
This is a damselfish of the Chromis species.
Credit: Jacob Johansen/Univ. of Texas at Austin
Just as one too many cocktails can lead a person to...
How cats and cows protect farm children from asthma
Milking cow (stock image).
Credit: © Ror / Fotolia
It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even...
Observing the Birkeland currents
Plots of AMPERE magnetic perturbations and radial current density from the northern hemisphere for 24 February 2014 with start times from 1530 UT through...
‘Space tsunami’ causes the third Van Allen Belt
This is an illustration to explain the dynamics of the ultra-relativistic third Van Allen radiation belt, by Andy Kale.
Credit: Andy Kale
Earth's magnetosphere, the region...
Earth’s magnetosphere: Discovery of zebra stripes in space resolves a half-century mystery
The Earth's magnetosphere is home to the plasma waves being studied by Yuri Shprits and colleagues.
Credit: NASA
In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to...
Space sound waves around Earth: Electrons whistle while they work?
Space is not empty, nor is it silent. The region around Earth is filled with magnetic field lines and trapped energetic particles, zooming about...
