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This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. The stories have become horribly familiar. Houses so overrun by bed bugs that the bloodsucking insects pile an inch deep on the floor. An airport shutting down gates for deep cleaning after the parasites were spotted brazenly crawling around. Fear and loathing during Fashion Week 2023 in Paris, with bed …
Orbitrap Astral MS blurs the contrast between DIA and DDA Clinical proteomics and systems biology studies require high-throughput liquid chromatography with tandem MS (LC–MS/MS) analyses with deep proteome coverage and accurate quantification. To achieve this, it is necessary to reduce MS measurement time by deploying shorter LC gradients with faster scanning MS instruments that …
Every dog has its day, but some dogs get more days than others. Toy poodles can live 18 years or more, while the average Great Dane is lucky to live half that long. This large discrepancy in the life spans of animals within a single species is uncommon, yet scientists aren’t sure which traits …
The Neolithic age — when agriculture and animal farming were adopted — has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove great change in the evolution of human society. Recent research — the fruit of projects that combine archaeological excavation …
As astronaut Bruce McCandless II flew the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) out of the space shuttle Challenger’s payload bay for the first time on February 7, 1984, many in the agency were fearful about the use of a self-propelled and untethered backpack in space. (Previous spacewalkers remained connected to the vehicle with tethers. This …
Qualitative research aims to explore and understand the depth, context and nuances of human experiences, behaviors and phenomena. This methodological approach emphasizes gathering rich, nonnumerical information through methods such as interviews, focus groups, observations and content analysis. In qualitative research, the emphasis is on uncovering patterns and meanings within a specific social or cultural …
The existence of a building block that gives all other particles in the Universe their form was predicted in 1964 by the Scottish physicist, Peter Higgs, but was only discovered at the LHC in 2012. It was the final piece of the jigsaw of the current theory of sub-atomic physics, which is called the …
Did you know that anorexia is the most lethal mental health condition? One person dies from an eating disorder every hour in the U.S. Many of these deaths are not from health consequences related to starvation, but from suicide. Up to 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men in the U.S. will develop an eating disorder by …
Single-cell projectome analysis elucidates axonal arborization of more than 10,000 neurons in the mouse hippocampus. Source link
Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained patients in its psychiatric inpatient unit at the fourth-highest rate of any such facility in the United States, newly released annual figures show — the latest evidence of a persistent pattern that has troubled local leaders and mental health advocates. Under federal law, hospitals are prohibited from restraining …