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Soccer Ball Heading Alters Brain: University of Sydney Study

Precision Psychiatry Roadmap Revolutionizes Diagnosis

Study Links Well-Being to Lower Memory Loss

Anti-Aging Drug Rapamycin Equals Life Extension

Intermittent Fasting Equals Traditional Diets for Weight Loss

Rising Unintentional Fall Deaths Among Older White Americans

Nutrition's Impact on Cancer Patients' Health

Patient Diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Due to Fusion Gene

Study: Inflation Reduction Act Won't Impact R&D Investment

Histamine's Impact on Exercise Performance

Puberty Hormonal Changes Impacting Transgender Youth

Weight-Loss Behaviors Overlooked in Eating Disorder Diagnoses

Cannabis Use Doubles Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Virtual Ward Bed Lowers Carbon Emissions for NHS

Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Benefit from Combination Therapy

Hospital Pharmacist Guidance Improves COPD Inhaler Use

UCLA Study: Cardiac Markers Link Cancer & Heart Disease

University of Twente Unveils First MDR-Compliant Open-Source Medical Device

Managing Age-Related Risks: Advances in Geroprotection

Novel Study: Anthropomorphizing Fitness Equipment Boosts Activity

Swedish Doctors' Antibiotic Prescribing Influenced by Peers

Chronic Artificial Light Exposure Linked to Depression

Stigma in Hospital Care for Mental Health: Research Findings

Digital Inhalers Aid in Predicting COPD Exacerbations

Arboviral Disease Cases Surge in 48 States

Abortion Providers Relocate Post-Dobbs Ruling

New Computational Model Predicts Lung Motion for Safer Biopsies

AI Innovations in Women's Health: Predicting Cancer & Detecting Endometriosis

Why Microwaving Fish Creates Lingering Smells

Study Finds Electronic Nudge Letters Ineffective for CKD Therapy

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Global Climate Change Study Warns of Carbon Budget Exhaustion

Canada Seeks Top US Scientists Amid Trump Crackdown

Volcano Eruption: Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki Alert Raised

Amazonian Scorpion Venom: Potential Cancer Drug

Plant Cell Wall Components: Abundant Sources for Biofuels

Study Reveals UK's Changing Extreme Hot Episode Trends

4,000 Tree Species in Mexico & Central America Face Extinction

Newly Discovered Armored Monstersaurian in Southern Utah

The Manchurian Candidate and The IPCRESS File: Brainwashing Revisited

Rare Earth Metals: Key Assets in Trade War

Willow Leaves Reduce Ammonia Emissions in Cattle Farming

Cloud Fraction Diurnal Variation Impact on Earth's Climate

Global Environmental Crisis: Urgent Need for Real-Time Data

E. Coli: Antibiotic Resistance Testing in Agricultural Environments

Europe Faces Devastating Floods: 335 Lives Lost

Genetic Markers Boost Meat Quality in Nelore Cattle

Disposable Face Masks: Impact on Environment and Health

Study Reveals Strategic Market Withdrawal Boosts International Firm Growth

Danish Primary Schools Rely on Google Tech

WVU Researchers Develop Flood Resilience Toolkit

NASA Astronauts Conduct Simulated Moonwalk in Northern Arizona

NASA Prepares Astronauts for Artemis III Moonwalkers

Study Reveals Impact of Violence on São Paulo Teens

Study Reveals Native Plant Seeding Reduces Invasive Species

Female Researchers Unveil Systemic Sexism in Early Academic Careers

Gender Equality Impact on Girls' Science Choices

Researchers Show Magnetic Fields Regulate Laser Demagnetization

Asteroid 2024 YR4: Moon Impact Threat in 2032

Widespread Applications of Lasers in Various Fields

Impact of LGBTQ-Friendly Policies on US Firm Innovation

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AI Model Uses Tokens to Generate Answers

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

Repurposing Coal Mines for Solar Panels: Unlikely Green Energy Solution

Energy transition: How coal mines could go solar

Meta Attempts $100 Million Bonuses to Lure OpenAI Talent

Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman

A new tool predicts when users will reject a new technology

Paradoxical Relationship: High Hopes, Tech Skepticism

Singapore Engineers Develop Flying Drum Robot

Two-actuator robot combines efficient ground rolling and spinning flight in one design

Study Reveals Language Models Overemphasize Start and End

Lost in the middle: How LLM architecture and training data shape AI's position bias

AI Video Reconstruction of Christopher Pelkey's Impact Statement Leads to Maximum Sentence

AI 'reanimations': Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries

Global Fossil Fuel Phase-Out by 2050: G20's Renewable Energy Potential

G20 countries could produce enough renewable energy for the whole world: What needs to happen

Dutch Government Urges Parents to Limit Social Media for Kids

Dutch suggest social media ban for under-15s

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA

Why stablecoins are gaining popularity

Global Oil Demand to Dip in 2030: International Energy Agency

US Senate to Vote on Regulating Stablecoins

Rising Popularity of AI Chatbots for Daily News

London Workshop Develops Prototype for Capturing Ship Emissions

UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions

Poll finds public turning to AI bots for news updates

Iberian Peninsula Power Outage Linked to Overvoltage

Spain says 'overvoltage' caused huge April blackout

Middle East: Beauty and Ancient Kingdoms Amid Instability

The Middle East is a major flight hub. How do airlines keep passengers safe during conflict?

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Thursday, 6 February 2020

Global panic deepens over China virus

China's coronavirus crisis worsened Thursday as the death toll soared to 563 and the plight of thousands trapped on quarantined cruise ships deepened global panic over the epidemic.

Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm about the virus dies

A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died after coming down with the illness Friday, a hospital reported.

How iron carbenes store energy from sunlight—and why they aren't better at it

Photosensitizers are molecules that absorb sunlight and pass that energy along to generate electricity or drive chemical reactions. They're generally based on rare, expensive metals; so the discovery that iron carbenes, with plain old iron at their cores, can do this, too, triggered a wave of research over the past few years. But while ever more efficient iron carbenes are being discovered, scientists need to understand exactly how these molecules work at an atomic level in order to engineer them for top performance.

Smartphone lab delivers test results in 'spit' second

Engineers with the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into your phone, connecting it automatically to a doctor's office through a custom app UC developed.

Apps could take up less space on your phone, thanks to new 'streaming' software

If you resort to deleting apps when your phone's storage space is full, researchers have a solution.

Beyond Goodfellas and The Godfather: the Cosa Nostra families' rise and fall

Italian American organized crime may conjure images of classic gangster flicks, but as James B. Jacobs explores in the Crime and Justice article "The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime in the United States," its history is unexpectedly nuanced and mutable. The Cosa Nostra families—popularly known as the Mafia—operated, at the height of their power, in at least twenty-four American cities, with five in New York City alone. Although no national body governed the families, they operated similarly to one another and were major urban power brokers.

Tinder a good example of how people use technology for more than we think

Tinder's meteoric rise in popularity has cemented its position as the go-to dating app for millions of young and not-so-young users. Although it is widely known as a platform to facilitate hookups and casual dating, some of the app's estimated 50 million+ worldwide users are employing it for something altogether different.

What is your risk from smoking? Your network knows!

How many people will die from tobacco use in developed countries in 2030?

Majority of US adults believe climate change is most important issue today

As the effects of climate change become more evident, more than half of U.S. adults (56%) say climate change is the most important issue facing society today, yet 4 in 10 have not made any changes in their behavior to reduce their contribution to climate change, according to a new poll by the American Psychological Association.

Chemical found in drinking water linked to tooth decay in children

Children with higher concentrations of a certain chemical in their blood are more likely to get cavities, according to a new study by West Virginia University School of Dentistry researchers.

Half of lupus rashes harbor high levels of bacteria responsible for infections

A new study finds that one side effect of lupus could also make patients with the autoimmune condition more vulnerable to a skin infection, or spreading the infection to others.

NASA satellite finds wind shear adversely affecting tropical storm Francisco

Forecasters use a variety of satellite imagery to understand what is happening in a storm, and sometimes just a visible picture can tell a lot. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the Tropical Storm Francisco in the Southern Indian Ocean that showed wind shear was pushing clouds away from the storm's center.

NASA sees tropical storm Damien form off Australia's Pilbara coast

The low-pressure area that formed off Australia's Kimberley coast and lingered there for a couple of days has moved west and developed into Tropical Cyclone Damien off the Pilbara coastline. NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and provided forecasters with a visible image of the new tropical storm.  The Pilbara Coast is also known as the northwest coast of Western Australia.

Artificial evolution of an industry

A research team from the University of Delaware and the Indian Institute of Management took a deeper look into the newly emerging domain of "forward-looking" business strategies and found that firms have far more ability to actively influence the future of their markets than once thought.

Physicists find evidence of previously unseen transition in ferroelectrics

In a recent study, University of Arkansas physics researchers found evidence of an inverse transition in ferroelectric ultrathin films, which could lead to advances in development of data storage, microelectronics and sensors.

How runaway healthcare costs are a threat to older adults and what to do about it

Empowering Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices, accelerating the adoption of value-based care, using philanthropy as a catalyst for reform and expanding senior-specific models of care are among recommendations for reducing healthcare costs published in a new special report and supplement to the Winter 2019-20 edition of Generations, the journal of the American Society of Aging (ASA).

How farmers' opinions determine success of plant-disease control strategies

To successfully combat a crop-threatening disease, it may be more important to educate growers about the effectiveness of control strategies than to emphasize the risk posed by the disease, according to new research by Alice Milne of Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, U.K., and colleagues. These findings appear in PLOS Computational Biology.

Stopping onchocerciasis on two sides of a border

Pathogens don't pay attention to international borders, with transmission and endemic areas often stretching between countries. In the new work, Moses Katabarwa of the Carter Center, USA, and colleagues report in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases the first known and successful coordinated cross-border mass drug administration (MDA) effort with ivermectin to stop onchocerciasis.

Collaboration lets researchers 'read' proteins for new properties

Clumps of proteins inside cells are a common thread in many neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease. These clumps, or solid aggregates of proteins, appear to be the result of an abnormality in the process known as liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), in which individual proteins come together to form a liquid-like droplet.

Key molecular machine in cells pictured in detail for the first time

Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine, Columbia University, and Rockefeller University have revealed the inner workings of one of the most fundamental and important molecular machines in cells.

Scientists discover how rogue communications between cells lead to leukemia

New research has deciphered how rogue communications in blood stem cells can cause leukaemia.

Two enzymes control liver damage in NASH, study shows

As much as 12 percent of adults in the United States are living with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an aggressive condition that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer. After identifying a molecular pathway that allows NASH to progress into liver cell death, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers were able to halt further liver damage in mouse models with NASH.

Water-conducting membrane allows carbon dioxide to transform into fuel more efficiently

Methanol is a versatile and efficient chemical used as fuel in the production of countless products. Carbon dioxide (CO2), on the other hand, is a greenhouse gas that is the unwanted byproduct of many industrial processes.