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Study Reveals NIPT Superiority Over STSS in DS Screening

Study Reveals Tumor Biology Differences in Black vs. White Veterans

Wearable Pulse Oximeter for Sleep Apnea Monitoring

New Study: Methotrexate as Alternative to Prednisone

Improved Lung Transplant Outcomes with New Allocation Guidelines

Astroglial Cells Lead Brain Activity Regulation

Helping Your Primary School Child Navigate Romantic Relationships

The Importance of Homeostasis in Living Organisms

Waist-to-Height Ratio Predicts Heart Failure Incidence

How Mindfulness Eases Anxiety & Boosts Focus

Single Gene's Key Role in Liver Energy Storage

Pharmaceutical CEO Reveals Vast Cannabis Stockpile

Study Links Rising Temperatures to Severe Sleep Apnea

Heart Failure Patients Lack Regular Cardiologist Visits

Personalized Treatments for Cancer, Heart Disease & More

Struggling to Focus? Regain Productivity with These Tips

Impact of Parental Ancestry on Child Genetic Changes

Study: Monoamine Neurotransmitters in Hippocampal Activation

AI Algorithm Excels in Heart Failure Detection Kenya Study

UCLA & UCSD Researchers Create Injectable Sealant

US Approves First Blood Test for Alzheimer's

Texas Measles Outbreak Slowing: Fewer Than 10 New Cases

Pharmaceutical Cannabidiol Formulation Shows Cardiac Safety

Stress Link to Alzheimer's in Postmenopausal Women

Revolutionizing Health Care: Overcoming Design Limits

"Second-Highest Measles Cases in U.S. Since 2000"

Elusive HIV: Researchers Struggle to Find Vaccine

3,500 Sleep-Related Infant Deaths Annually in US

Study Finds OTC Hearing Aids Less Effective

Air Pollution Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Women

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Larger Hilbert Space Key for Quantum Error Correction

Technological Advances in Precision Physiological Monitoring

"Parthenon: Iconic Temple of Athena on Acropolis Hill"

Residents of Jemna Transform Lives with Palm Grove Takeover

Deadly Storms Devastate Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia

Indian Space Agency's Earth Observation Satellite Launch Fails

21 Dead as Severe Storms Hit Missouri & Kentucky

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Cemeteries in Tangier

Quantum Transformations: Molecule's Light Absorption Dance

Moon's Dark Nearside vs. Rugged Farside: NASA's Lunar Interior Insight

Study Reveals Ultraweak Photon Emission in Living Systems

New Findings in Archaeopteryx Fossil, Voyager 1 Thrusters Revived, Evolutionary Assumptions Challenged

Abandoned Tugboat Found in Lake Michigan

Black Shark Fins Spotted on Central Israel Beach

University of Seville Study: Fiscal-Monetary Policy Impact on Eurozone Growth

British Poets Explore Childhood and Masculinity with Lawnmower Poetry

"Engineers Mimic Marine Shells for Enhanced Energy Absorption"

Belgian Researchers Find Low-Emission Zones Improve Air Quality

"Harmony of Corals and Microbes: Vital Ecosystem Indicators"

Melting Glaciers in Boulder Expose Sulfate Minerals

New Method Identifies Genetic Changes in Oxygen-Producing Microbes

Boosting Radiative Cooling Efficiency for Climate Control

From Hull to Grain: The Rice Milling Process Explained

New Research Reveals Widespread Animal Behavior Patterns

Ozone Hole's Reversible Impact on Southern Ocean Carbon

Ancient Sediment Cores Reveal Global Cooling Event

Evolution of Efficient Light-Emitting Materials

Uncovering Fundamental Mechanism of G Protein-Coupled Receptors

Researchers Uncover Antibiotic Resistance Mechanism

Unveiling EP1: Key GPCR Subtype in PGE2 Signaling

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Cryptocurrency Users Face Security Threats

Paris kidnap bid highlights crypto data security risks

Tin-Halide Perovskites: Promising Semiconductors for TFTs

A new strategy to fabricate highly performing thin-film tin perovskite transistors

Fortnite Unavailable on Apple App Store: Epic Games Battle

'Fortnite' unavailable on Apple devices worldwide

Musk's xAI blames 'unauthorized' tweak for 'white genocide' posts

Elon Musk's AI Startup Blames Unauthorized Modification

Establishing electromagnetic wave measurement standards to ensure the performance of Korea's Starlink

Korea Research Institute Sets Standards for 6G Satellite System

Expansion of Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks Reshaping Communications

Algorithms aim to make real-time data processing possible anywhere on Earth

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Sparks Controversy

Elon Musk's AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa's racial politics was 'unauthorized'

US Government Relinquishes Internet Control After 30 Years

How a decades-old tech battle remains as relevant today as ever

Metrology matters: The hidden science driving the green and digital transition

The Science of Measurement: Metrology in Daily Life

Surge in Interest for Encrypted Messaging Apps

Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications

NASA X-59's latest testing milestone: Simulating flight from the ground

Nasa's X-59 Supersonic Aircraft Tests Success

Alibaba's Tongyi Lab Introduces Cost-Effective LLM Training

Alibaba's ZeroSearch method uses simulated search results to slash LLM training costs

Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights

Trump Reveals New Deals with Saudi Arabia

Australia's Search for Waste Disposal Alternatives

Waste-to-energy in Australia: How it works, where new incinerators could go, and how they stack up

Revolutionizing Lighting: White LEDs' Impact Since 1996

Study maps three decades of white LED progress and key innovation drivers

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Friday, 9 April 2021

France to declare agricultural 'disaster' over spring frost

The French government is to declare an agricultural disaster over an unusual early spring frost that has damaged crops and vines across the country, the agiculture minister said.

North Carolina sites halt J&J shots after adverse reactions

North Carolina health officials said on Thursday that they stopped administering Johnson & Johnson doses at a mass vaccination site in Raleigh and at clinics in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill after at least 26 people experienced adverse reactions, including fainting.

French under-55s given AZ jab to get different 2nd dose

French authorities are set to rule that under 55s who received a first injection of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be given a jab from a different producer for their second dose, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Friday.

US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations

The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic—the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data.

St. Vincent warns of volcanic eruption, orders evacuations

Authorities on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent said Thursday they believe an active volcano is in danger of erupting and have ordered mandatory evacuations.

Liftoff! Pioneers of space

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space 60 years ago next week.

US sanctions Chinese computer makers in widening tech fight

The Biden administration has added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a U.S. export blacklist in a spreading conflict with Beijing over technology and security.

Amazon union organizers deflated as vote tilts against them

Amazon is heading into the final stretch of a union push in Bessemer, Alabama with a sizeable lead over labor organizers.

Verizon recalls mobile hotspots sold to schools, in stores

Verizon is recalling 2.5 million mobile hotspots after some reports of overheating and two reports of minor burns.

Three-man Soyuz flight honouring Gagarin blasts off for ISS

A three-man crew blasted off to the International Space Station Friday in a capsule honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space.

X-ray study recasts role of battery material from cathode to catalyst

An international team working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a unique X-ray instrument to learn new things about lithium-rich battery materials that have been the subject of much study for their potential to extend the range of electric vehicles and the operation of electronic devices.

Configuring infrared spectroscopy tools to better detect breast cancer

Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be analyzed to determine further treatment, it might be OK for the results to take 24 hours. But if the patient is still on the operating table and clinicians are waiting to make sure no cancer cells are present along the edges of the removed tumor, results need to be nearly immediate.

Could Mario Kart teach us how to reduce world poverty and improve sustainability?

Many Mario Kart enthusiasts are familiar with the rush of racing down Rainbow Road, barely squeaking around a corner, and catching a power-up from one of the floating square icons on the screen—or, less ideally, slipping on a banana peel laid by another racer and flying off the side of the road into oblivion. This heated competition between multiple players, who use a variety of game tokens and tools to speed ahead or thwart their competitors, is part of what makes the classic Nintendo racing game that has been around since the early 1990s so appealing.

Cancer-killing virus therapy shows promise against inoperable skin cancers

Early results show that a new combination drug therapy is safe and effective against advanced skin cancer in patients who were not able to have their tumors surgically removed.

Sunlight linked with lower COVID-19 deaths, study shows

Sunnier areas are associated with fewer deaths from Covid-19, an observational study suggests.

Failure to rescue a major driver of excess maternal mortality in Black women

In a study of over 73 million delivery hospitalizations during a 19-year period in the United States, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center found that failure to rescue from severe maternal morbidity contributes more than a half of the 3-fold difference in maternal mortality between Black women and White women. Failure to rescue refers to death resulting from severe maternal morbidity such as eclampsia, acute heart failure, and sepsis. The findings are published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Brazil at high risk of dengue outbreaks after droughts because of temporary water storage

Dengue risk is exacerbated in highly populated areas of Brazil after extreme drought because of improvised water containers housing mosquitoes, suggests a new study in Lancet Planetary Health.

Surgery for stress urinary incontinence doesn't cause pelvic cancer

Women undergoing surgery to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are not at increased risk of developing pelvic cancers, according to a large-scale, population-based study in The Journal of Urology, Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA).

Lessons in equity from the frontlines of COVID-19 vaccination

When the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use in December 2020, healthcare systems across the Unites States needed to rapidly design and implement their own approaches to distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably and efficiently. This new role has required Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) to develop new strategies and build large operational teams to organize and successfully vaccinate more than 14,000 patients a week across Eastern Massachusetts. In an Insight article published in JAMA Health Forum, Leonor Fernandez, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Peter Shorett, MPP, Chief Integration Officer at BILH, identify five key lessons about health equity that have emerged from BILH's vaccination campaign for the health system's approximately 1.6 million patients.

Even 'safe' ambient CO levels may harm health, study finds

Data collected from 337 cities across 18 countries show that even slight increases in ambient carbon monoxide levels from automobiles and other sources are associated with increased mortality.

Study investigates link between lactation and visceral, pericardial fat

As demonstrated by multiple studies over the years, women who breastfeed have a lower risk for developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes when compared to those who don't or can't. However, the mechanisms by which these risks are reduced for lactating women are still not fully understood.

Earth's crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life

Below the verdant surface and organic rich soil, life extends kilometers into Earth's deep rocky crust. The continental deep subsurface is likely one of the largest reservoirs of bacteria and archaea on Earth, many forming biofilms—like a microbial coating of the rock surface. This microbial population survives without light or oxygen and with minimal organic carbon sources, and can get energy by eating or respiring minerals. Distributed throughout the deep subsurface, these biofilms could represent 20-80% of the total bacterial and archaeal biomass in the continental subsurface according to the most recent estimate. But are these microbial populations spread evenly on rock surfaces, or do they prefer to colonize specific minerals in the rocks?

Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds

Dutch astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands), together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. The article, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and provides new information about the origin of water on new, potentially habitable, worlds. The article is expected to serve as a reference work for the next twenty years.