The two-days binned MAXI light curve of GX 349+2. The red and blue vertical lines represent AstroSat and NICER observations. Credit: Kashyap et al., 2023. Using the AstroSat spacecraft and…
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Cytomegalovirus lies dormant in most US adults and is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, but few have heard of it
“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Although more than half…
Study Predicts Women Hit Hardest
A new report from a human resources analytics firm found that artificial intelligence threatens to replace a disproportionate number of jobs typically held by women. According to researchers at Revelio…
How a new Lyme vaccine for mice may protect people
A vaccine to fight Lyme disease, decades in the making, has received a temporary green light from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But it’s not for people — it’s for…
Denmark PM delivers speech partly written by AI
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday delivered a speech to parliament partly written using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to highlight the revolutionary aspects and risks…
NASA, Boeing Provide Update on Starliner Flight Test Readiness
NASA and Boeing completed a joint Crew Flight Test checkpoint review May 25 ahead of the first flight of Starliner with astronauts to the International Space Station. During the checkpoint,…
All known planet-hosting, three-star systems in a single catalog
Triple-stellar systems have two stars orbiting one another with a third orbiting the pair. Now we have a catalog containing all known three-star systems that also host planets around them.…
The search for habitable planets expands
A University of Michigan astronomer and his team suggest a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that considers a zone not previously considered: the space between the…
RSV vaccine breakthrough prevents respiratory infections that pose serious hazards to older adults
It is not every day that drug development results in a breakthrough with the potential to eliminate an often serious and sometimes fatal disease, but one of those days occurred…
More depressed patients than previously estimated could have increased activation of their immune system
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has used an assessment of gene expression involved in the immune…
