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Kosaku Aoyagi, PT, Ph.D. (right), assistant professor of physical therapy and movement sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, is leading research into a new approach to relieving knee pain. In collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston University, his team conducted a pilot trial testing a novel method for treating osteoarthritis-related knee pain by stimulating the vagus nerve via the ear. The results appear in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open.

Ear Stimulation Shows Promise for Knee Pain Relief

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

FAST & ACCURATE: Predicted motions of hundreds of particles inside a fusion reactor show that a new computational method (orange, red) closely matches the results of traditional Newtonian calculations (blue, green)—but with a speed boost of 10x. (Image credit: University of Texas at Austin)

Major Fusion Energy Hurdle Cleared

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Bus stop

Bus Shelters Turn Deadly Ovens During Heatwaves

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Social Sciences

Aging man smiling on a park bench

Immune Resilience Grants 15-Year Survival Advantage in Aging

Categories Health

A generated image showing a human gut with various types of bacteria, accompanied by a personalized treatment plan featuring antibiotics, probiotics, and prebiotics

Gut Bacteria Imbalance After Stroke May Worsen Brain Inflammation

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a possible way to make glioblastoma cells vulnerable to different types of immunotherapy. The strategy, which they demonstrated in cells in the lab, forces brain cancer cells to display targets for the immune system to attack. Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive cancers, as illustrated by these brain scans from a patient with glioblastoma at initial diagnosis (left) and the same patient with a recurrent tumor (right).

Drug found to more than double survival time for glioblastoma patients

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

A sorbent created using biomass that can pull drinkable water out of thin air.

Kitchen Scraps and Seashells Pull Drinking Water from Thin Air

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

An artist’s interpretation of Vegavis iaai diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company.

Ancient Antarctic Bird Had a Spear for a Beak, Revealing Lost World of Avian Diversity

Categories Life & Non-humans

Zahra Fatahimeiabadi, a graduate student in the lab of Sudip Bajpeyi, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at The University of Texas at El Paso (not pictured), demonstrates a resistance workout while using neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Bajpeyi leads a team of researchers whose new meta-analysis study, published this month in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, found that combining NMES with resistance training leads to greater muscle mass and strength compared to resistance training alone.

Adding Electrical Stimulation to Workouts Boosts Muscle Gains, Study Shows

Categories Health, Technology

The team analyzed genetic material from microbes in a one-of-a-kind archive of water samples collected over 20 years from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin.

Lake Bacteria Reveal a Stunning Seasonal Evolution Loop That Defies Expectations

Categories Life & Non-humans

illustration of mice and DNA

Drug Restores Social Communication in Fragile X Newborns

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

illustration of tax investigator

Tax Whistleblower Law Proves Highly Effective at Reducing Corporate Tax Avoidance

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

Researchers test a 3D-printed femur design in a universal testing machine, which measures a variety of properties.

Researchers Aim To Get Leg Up on Bone Repair with 3D-Printed Femur

Categories Health, Technology

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