Jérôme Remy, PhD 🇪🇺Hearing aids not only help people, some younger than others, to compensate for heavy hearing losses, they also help lower levels of depression and dementia. More in this issue of the BBC science focus:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/hearing-aids-boost-lifespan
High precision, millisecond range scans turn arm casts into a thing of the past. Manometric is the Dutch company buiding and selling the machine that makes that innovative approach feasible. https://raboenco.rabobank.nl/nl/articles/101756/
I have about half an hour every morning to listen to podcasts after dropping my kid to school and driving to work. I’ve been a planetary society member for decades now, and have recently started to follow the planetary radio. One of the old shows involved the concept of quasi-moon (the Earth has seven of them), and explained the story of Venus Zoozve quasi-moon. https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2024-radiolab-helps-name-a-quasi-moon
For those of you who still have babies at home, there is a reason why the truck outside might not wake you up at night whereas your baby crying surely will. And it all has to do with the 40-100 Hz frequency, which relates to uncomfortable (annoying?), alarm-related sounds. More about it here: https://rdcu.be/e4ToR