If a virtual world has ever left you feeling nauseous or disorientated, you're familiar with cybersickness, and you're hardly alone. The intensity of virtual reality (VR)—whether that's standing on the edge of a waterfall ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) analyzed data at the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and found public health measures designed to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 ...
Jun 14, 2021
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Have you ever been cut off in traffic by another driver, leaving you still seething miles later? Or been interrupted by a colleague in a meeting, and found yourself replaying the event in your head even after you've left ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Languages differ in the sounds they use. The Japanese language, for example, does not distinguish between 'r' and 'l' sounds as in 'rock' versus 'lock.' Remarkably, infants become attuned to the sounds of their native language ...
Jan 29, 2021
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University of Maryland (UMD) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers are working together to develop a new X-ray based technique that has the potential to advance understanding of Alzheimer's disease in a ...
Dec 24, 2020
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In a new paper published in Stem Cell Reports, Bhanu Telugu and co-inventor Chi-Hun Park of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Animal and Avian Sciences show for the first time that newly established stem cells ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that late 19th century misconceptions about outbreaks of plague in the ancient ...
Dec 17, 2020
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After Julia had a minor stroke, she was thankful for receiving rapid treatment and recovering well. But she did notice an unexpected aftereffect as she returned to normal activities. In meetings at work, she was unable to ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses in the U.S., has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults ...
Oct 19, 2020
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In a study published in Autophagy, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) shed new light on how Zika virus hijacks our own cellular machinery to break down a protein that is essential for neurological development ...
Sep 28, 2020
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