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How Can We Better Support the Mental Well-Being of Veterans Returning from Service?

Military service is difficult, dangerous, and demanding. But for some veterans, returning to civilian life can also be a challenge. Going from the structure of active duty—with its purpose-driven roles, full-throttle environment, and sense of camaraderie—to the relatively humdrum life of a civilian can be jarring, particularly for veterans who’ve experienced trauma during their service and may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Researchers at Boston University, including Dawne Vogt and Casey Taft—both professors of psychiatry in the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine—are utilizing a variety of data-backed strategies to support veterans struggling to adapt to their new normal lives. 




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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Shows Promise in Treating PTSD

New research data offers much-needed hope for veterans wrestling with combat-associated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study explores the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to address symptoms that persist despite standard treatments.




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Chronic Brain Trauma Is Extensive in Navy’s Elite Speedboat Crews

The pounding that sailors’ brains take from years of high-speed wave-slamming in the Special Boat Teams can cause symptoms that wreck their careers — and their lives.




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NRC Commissioners Wright and Crowell Visit Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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Commissioner Wright and Commissioner Crowell visit Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Massachusetts. CFS is one of several firms seeking to use nuclear fusion (where hydrogen atoms combine to form helium) to generate electricity. The company is currently developing a system using powerful magnetic fields to control the extremely hot plasma that sustains a fusion reaction.

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NRC New Hires

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Karen Loomis is a new NRC environmental project manager and Ally Marra is a new NRC health physicist.

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NRC at Delaware State University

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Patrice Williams-Johnson from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer hosts a recruiting table at Delaware State University's Level Up to Public Service event speaking with students about the NRC’s Internship, Co-op and Apprenticeship Programs with opportunities at NRC headquarters and regional offices.

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NRC Teams Up With Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

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NRC staff members are #OnTheJob with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) staff members touring the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock facilities, where ship and submarine research and development are done for NAVSEA. This partnership explores how 3D printing might be used to create parts for nuclear reactor.

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New Cybersecurity Specialist

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Tim Marshall is a new cybersecurity specialist in our Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. He duties include working with regulations, research projects, converting plant controls from analog to digital, and fuel cycle facilities.

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Worldwide community of activists protest OverDrive and others forcing DRM upon libraries

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, November 28, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced its Defective by Design campaign's 17th annual International Day Against DRM (IDAD). It will protest uses of Digital Restrictions Management technology's hold over public libraries around the world, exemplified by corporations like OverDrive and Follett Destiny. IDAD will take place digitally and worldwide on December 8, 2023.




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EmacsConf joins Free Software Foundation fiscal sponsorship program

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, November 30, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that EmacsConf will join the Working Together for Free Software Fund. The one and only conference dedicated to the joy of Emacs is joining just before their event on December 2 and 3, 2023.




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Hayley Tsukayama will speak about grassroots activism at LibrePlanet 2024




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Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 27, 2024 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple's current line of graphics processing units (GPU), as keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2024. LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community is the sixteenth edition of the FSF's conference on ethical technology and user freedom and will be held on May 4 and 5 at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, as well as online.




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Free Software Awards winners announced: Bruno Haible, code.gouv.fr, Nick Logozzo




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Let's not celebrate CrowdStrike -- let's point to a better way




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Free Software Foundation to serve on "artificial intelligence" safety consortium

BOSTON (October 8, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that it is taking part in the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s consortium on the safety of (so-called) artificial intelligence, particularly with reference to "generative" AI systems. The FSF will ensure the free software perspective is adequately represented in these discussions.




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FSF associate members to assist in review of current board members




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FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications

BOSTON (October 22, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today that it is working on a statement of criteria for free machine learning applications, which will require the software, as well as the raw training data and associated scripts, to grant users the four freedoms.




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Dead Cells Release Wound-Healing Signals

Inflammation is the body’s natural response to injury and infections.  It promotes healing through immune cell activation to target bacteria and



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Hybrid Immune Cells from Skull Bone Marrow Suppress Brain Cancer

Brain tumors or glioblastomas are one of the most difficult cancer types to treat. These masses are malignant tumors that are made up of abnormal neuronal



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Successful ultra-rare cell isolation with the CGX10 System

The isolation and expansion of rare and ultra-rare cell populations are important for advancing cell therapy manufacturing. For example, Foxp3-positive na&



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Harnessing Automated Insulin Delivery: Case Reports from Marathon Runners with Type 1 Diabetes

How can machine learning help individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D)? This is what a study presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European As



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A New Type of System for Delivering Cargo Into Cells

A sea star oocyte that has been treated with a fluorescent marker of the novel system in shown in this image by D. Nathaniel Clarke



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Enabling diverse applications with the MA900 Cell Sorter

The MA900 Multi-Application Cell Sorter is a versatile and automated system that can transform laboratory workflow, enabling seamless sorting of a range of



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Low Manganese Levels Worsen Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Scientists have found a link between manganese deficiency and both inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and increased inflammation and damage in the intestine.



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New Biomarkers Reveal More About Unexplained Chronic Itch

There are millions of people around the world who deal with chronic itching with no clear cause, or chronic pruritus of unknown origin (CPUO)



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Revealing Why Some Organs Age Faster Than Others

There are different theories of aging, and scientists have found various ways to measure biological age. Mutations that happen in DNA as a result of exposu



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August GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali

Fifteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of August 31, 2024):




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Free software in the EU needs your help! Join the international effort before September 20