An Olentangy Orange student developed a cap for infrared scans that helps solve a problem he found while interning at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of epidural and spinal anesthesia techniques on neonatal cerebral oxygenation during cesarean surgery using near-infrared spectroscopy. The ...

Thanks to modern LED bulbs, light is cheaper than ever to make—except for one particular kind. Three University of Chicago scientists have announced an innovative way to create infrared light, which ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend, and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...

Punch-drunk syndrome, boxer’s madness, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The name has changed over the years, but the cause is clear: repeated impacts can affect long-term brain health, with ...

The world of wellness has exploded in the last decade, with huge amounts of conflicting advice and endless products hitting the market – meaning, it can be a right old minefield to navigate when ...

Those who study near-death experiences are occasionally confronted with cases that resist straightforward interpretation. The broader phenomenon is well established: Millions of people worldwide have ...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a brain imaging technique used to estimate neuronal activity by measuring blood oxygenation. In this paper, we develop and evaluate an extensive set of ...

Mercedes Somich was on the operating table when she said she left her body. It was the 24-year-old’s first pregnancy, and her labor had already been painful and dramatic. But then she needed an ...

Dr. Bruce Greyson can’t say for certain what happens when you die, but he’s talked to many people with unique perspectives: They were technically dead before being revived. “Most who have near-death ...