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Potatoes Can Be Part of a Healthy Diet
When we think of healthy vegetables, we don't think of potatoes, but we should. Potatoes have developed a reputation for causing weight gain and an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, and often find themselves on a list of foods to avoid, especially for individuals with insulin resistance. However, a new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, published in the Journal of Medicinal Food, says that potatoes actually did not increase that risk, are filled with key nutrients, and packed with health benefits.
Kameshwar Studying the Effect of Debris on Structures in Natural Disasters
In Louisiana, the main concern for several months out of the year is hurricanes, or more specifically, the wind and storm surge that accompany them. However, an overlooked aspect of these storms is the resulting debris, which accounts for nearly 25% of all disaster costs.
Want Safe Roads? 蘑菇tv Researchers Think Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Understand Driver Behavior
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded the 蘑菇tv Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety a competitive grant to build an AI engine to better understand driver behavior that leads to crashes in order to help prevent them.
蘑菇tv Improves Storm Surge and Flood Predictions with AI
The 蘑菇tv-developed tool to predict storm surge and flooding during severe weather events鈥攖he Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment, or CERA, website鈥攈as become an essential resource for thousands of emergency managers and first responders in Louisiana and the nation鈥檚 coastal states to help protect people and infrastructure. Now, the tool will become even smarter and faster, thanks to artificial intelligence.
Hacking the Metaverse
蘑菇tv Cybersecurity Professor Abe Baggili is one of the first people in the world to study immersive virtual reality safety to provide solutions to the VR software industry and protect people who use these new products.
蘑菇tv Geoscientists Analyze Fans' Earthshaking Reaction to Win
Fans inside and outside of Tiger Stadium erupted with excitement as they watched their team beat Alabama in overtime. At the same time, a seismometer on 蘑菇tv's campus captured the excitement, recording two distinctive seismic wave events.
蘑菇tv Researchers Use AI to Track Cybercrime in Louisiana And Beyond
蘑菇tv cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using AI.
蘑菇tv Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force
Physical Review Letters, the world鈥檚 premier physics letter journal, has published two papers by a team of 蘑菇tv nuclear physics researchers to advance the knowledge on the important implications for understanding the physics of the weak nuclear force.
蘑菇tv Research Team Leads Federal Study of Underwater Mudslides in the Gulf of Mexico to Understand Impacts on Energy Infrastructure, Shipwrecks
An interdisciplinary team of 蘑菇tv researchers is coordinating the largest-ever collaborative study of the seabed where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico with $3.8 million in support from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM.
Researchers at 蘑菇tv Health Shreveport and 蘑菇tv Shreveport Use AI to Better Understand and Treat Brain Tumors
Medical doctors are collaborating with computer scientists to improve care for patients with cavernous malformations, some of the most difficult-to-treat tumors in the head and spine.