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Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging poll report on addictive eating signs among adults age 50-80.

1 in 8 Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction

University of Michigan
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe’s mass. Hubble cannot see the dark matter directly. Astronomers inferred its location by analyzing the effect of gravitational lensing, where light from galaxies behind Abell 1689 is distorted by intervening matter within the cluster. Researchers used the observed positions of 135 lensed images of 42 background galaxies to calculate the location and amount of dark matter in the cluster. They superimposed a map of these inferred dark matter concentrations, tinted blue, on an image of the cluster taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. If the cluster’s gravity came only from the visible galaxies, the lensing distortions would be much weaker. The map reveals that the densest concentration of dark matter is in the cluster’s core. Abell 1689 resides 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. The image was taken in June 2002. Image credit: NASA, ESA, D. Coe (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Benitez (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain), T. Broadhurst (University of the Basque Country, Spain), and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)

A new model for dark matter

University of Michigan
Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
Squirrel researcher walking along the Alaska Highway in the Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Ben Dantzer

Squirrels that gamble win big when it comes to evolutionary fitness

University of Michigan
Categories Life & Non-humans
Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Reef fish must relearn ‘rules of engagement’ after coral bleaching

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Child using an iPad

Study: Frequently using digital devices to soothe young children may backfire

University of Michigan
Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
Green staining shows mTORC1 is significantly increased due to disruption in GATOR1 in a mouse model of colon cancer.

Dietary change starves cancer cells, overcoming treatment resistance

University of Michigan
Categories Health
When organ procurement organizations and transplant centers accept or select organs, they sometimes display a form of ageism known as left digit bias.

Bias against older organ donors may be leading to smaller organ supply for transplants

University of Michigan
Categories Health, Social Sciences
Senior beautiful woman wearing casual t-shirt standing over isolated pink background showing arms muscles smiling proud. Fitness concept.

Is weakness the new smoking? Muscle strength tied to biological age, study shows

University of Michigan
Categories Health

Sexual assault related ER visits increase more than tenfold

University of Michigan
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences

Immune marker in patients with heart failure predicts risk, death

University of Michigan
Categories Health
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