Category: BSJ Blogs

For most, the horrors and inconveniences of COVID-19 are becoming a distant memory. However, for the case of many who suffer from Long COVID, patients don’t see a recovery period. In fact, their symptoms only seem to get worse.

Every 8 minutes, one more person in America is added to the organ transplant waiting list. Sadly, many never make it off that list; 17 patients die everyday waiting for an organ donor. 

Hawk-Eye is a computer vision system, and, since 2005, has been one of the first instances of artificial intelligence (AI) being fully-integrated into an elite sport, and subsequently 23 of the 25 other top sports leagues and federations globally. But, does AI always make a sport better?

n the distance, abundant red flows out of a glacier like blood from an open wound, as if someone had carved a gash directly onto earth itself. What kind of feeling did this sight evoke within the expedition team? Did shivers run down their spine at the eerie appearance of an impossible, inorganic injury?

If you’ve ever heard that ‘milk makes your bones stronger,’ you may be surprised to discover that milk has strengthened far more economies than bones, all in its nearly 100-year reign over the U.S diet.

Imagine if curing genetic blindness was as simple as taking antibiotics, much like treating an infection with penicillin. Recent research from this year proposed the possibility of such a revolutionary approach to treatment of retinal disease, formerly known to be incurable.