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The specter of COVID has haunted the globe for four years now—the disease has killed at least seven million people worldwide. Yet the pandemic’s long-term effects are still hazy—because when it comes to a novel virus such as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID, scientists still have a lot to learn. What we do know is …
A three-dimensional scan of a 1,700-year-old egg discovered at a Roman site in England reveals that, eggs-traordinarily, it still has the remains of a yolk and egg white inside. It’s thought to be the only time a centuries-old chicken egg found with its insides preserved. “We were absolutely blown away when we saw the …
Feb. 13, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: J24-002 NASA Johnson Director to Discuss Exploration Park at ASCENDxTexas Media are invited to attend an event with NASA taking place as part of ASCENDxTexas on Thursday, Feb. 15. Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, will be in attendance, as will Texas A&M University System …
Hypertonic and hypotonic solutions aren’t just theoretical concepts. You can encounter both in your everyday life, such as in the following scenarios. 1. In Intravenous (IV) Solutions Medical professionals carefully formulate IV solutions so they’re compatible with your body’s natural fluids. To reduce edema (swelling), they might use a hypertonic IV solution to draw …
Melting ice is forcing this iconic Arctic species to spend more time on land, where they struggle for food. Source link
The heat signature from lava erupting on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is seen in this image captured by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on Feb. 8, 2023, less than 10 hours after the event began. (Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery) Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula has cracked open again, creating a nearly 2-mile-long volcanic dyke …
Neuroendocrine-specific tolerance to Myc is an oncogenic driver underlying histological transformation of lung cancer. Source link
Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are starting to puzzle over how to regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare — and the AI industry thinks there’s a good chance they’ll mess it up. “It’s an incredibly daunting problem,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco. “There’s a risk we …
You can see the pellet that Stanley refers to at the bottom of your drink container. It seals those layers together where they all meet at the bottom of the bottle, in a process called lead soldering. Technically, the vessel does contain lead, but it’s enclosed with stainless steel and should never come in …
Paleontologists in China have found fossil fragments from a new genus and species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that walked the Earth during the Cretaceous period. Life reconstruction of Jiangxititan ganzhouensis. Image credit: UnexpectedDinoLesson / Sci.News. Jiangxititan ganzhouensis lived in what is now China between 72 and 66 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch). The …