Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Before the end of its first full day of operations, the new Trump administration gutted all advisory panels for the Department of Homeland Security. Among these…
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How the Health and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the…
Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs may lower risk of 42 health conditions, but also pose risks
Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Several years ago, a little-known drug named Ozempic—previously used only to treat diabetes—emerged as a promising new drug for weight management. The Food and Drug…
Mysterious Mars mounds may bolster case for ancient Red Planet ocean
Thousands of hills and mounds on Mars have been found to contain layers of clay minerals, which formed when running water interacted with the rocks during a period when Mars’…
A recent fast radio burst calls into question what astronomers believed they knew
The location of the fast radio burst, indicated by the oval outlines, is on the outskirts of a massive elliptical galaxy, the yellow oval at right. Credit: Gemini Observatory Astronomer…
Experimental drug speeds up myelin repair, restoring vision in mice
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found a promising drug candidate that could help restore vision in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS)…
Meta tests ads on Threads, its alternative to X
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Facebook parent Meta has begun testing ads on its newest social network Threads, an executive announced Friday, as the company continues to grow its alternative to…
Nepal explores paving with plastic
Vehicles riding over a road built using recycled plastic waste in Pokhara. Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic,…
Rare votive treasures of the Cham people found in “Sacred Pit”
Archaeologists excavating a Buddhist temple site in the An Phú district of Vietnam’s An Giang province have found rare votive treasures of the Cham people. An Phú district, one of…
AI revolutionizes training for sensorimotor skills from surgery to tennis
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The new wave of powerful generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and DALL-E has introduced powerful capabilities such as writing and image generation. In…
