Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent

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August 01, 2022

Health Care Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent Over two years, a machine-learning program warned thousands of health care providers about patients at high risk of sepsis, allowing them to begin treatments nearly two hours sooner By Sophie Bushwick

Medicine There Is an Effective Treatment for Monkeypox, but It's Hard to Get A smallpox antiviral that's effective against monkeypox is tied up in red tape, and gay-health advocates are pushing to make it easier to access By Tanya Lewis

Public Health What Could Actually Work to Curb Gun Violence Evidence-based solutions to firearm safety range from banning assault weapons to increasing green spaces By Lawrence O. Gostin

Climate Change How the Senate Climate Bill Will Boost Clean Energy The surprise climate bill's electricity provisions would help the country surge toward its emissions reduction goals By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Health Care Marker Tip--Without Ink!--Makes a Hardy Medical Sampler The marker material conserved samples for up to a week By Maddie Bender

Planetary Science New Satellite Is a 'Swiss Army Knife' in Space The hyperspectral probe can pick out extreme detail of materials on Earth's surface By Megan I. Gannon

Neuroscience Unexpected Brain Chemistry Is behind the Element of Surprise  Animals learn especially well from surprising events, and the hormone noradrenaline may be one reason why By S. Hussain Hussain Ather

Engineering This Sticker Looks Inside the Body A new stick-on ultrasound patch can record the activity of hearts, lungs and other organs for 48 hours at a time By Sophie Bushwick

Engineering Scientists Invent a Paper Battery--Just Add Water A new disposable battery is made of paper and other sustainable materials and is activated with a few drops of water By Anna Blaustein

Particle Physics Physics Particles Fly as Practical Tools Protons, muons, neutrinos and other particles are moving beyond the realm of physics to help in a myriad of ways By James Riordon

Education News Briefs from around the World: August 2022 In case you missed it By Joanna Thompson

FROM THE STORE Revolutions in Science Normally science proceeds in incremental steps, but sometimes a discovery is so profound that it causes a paradigm shift. This eBook is a collection of articles about those kinds of advances, including revolutionary discoveries about the origin of life, theories of learning, formation of the solar system and more. *Editor's Note: Revolutions in Science was originally published as a Collector's Edition. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on mobile devices.

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