TEM of papillomavirus. Credit: Public Domain After committing to a global plan to eliminate cervical cancer, New Zealand is lagging behind Australia and other countries in how it manages this…
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Amazon’s Seattle campus still quiet as 5-days-in-office deadline hits
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon’s first day back in the office felt like any other Thursday. Which is to say, none too busy in downtown Seattle. In Seattle’s South Lake…
Archaeologists discover Charles XII’s secret Galärvegen
Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have discovered the secret Galärvegen route used by Charles XII. In 1718, king Charles XII of Sweden devised a cunning…
Does substance use change the brain’s structure, or does brain structure predispose some to substance use?
Regional Cortical Volume and Thickness Associations With Early Substance Use Initiation in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.52027 A study led by…
Will Trump defy MAGA and support them?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Of all the rich and powerful people cozying up to President-elect Donald Trump, few have rushed to Mar-a-Lago faster than the crowned heads of big tech,…
Why some people’s hair and nails grow quicker than others
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Throughout recorded history, our hair and nails have played an important role in signifying who we are and our social status. You could say they separate…
Pittsburgh-based autonomous truck company hits safety hangup with feds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After years of preparations, Aurora Innovation’s big launch of autonomous trucks in Texas is facing an unlikely stumbling block: safety triangles. When a traditional big rig…
Bezos’s Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week
In this handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin the New Glenn rocket is seen during a hot-fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on…
Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill briefs the media about the Tesla Cybertruck which exploded in front of the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025,…
Flu and RSV are sustaining California’s sniffly season, COVID yet to surge this winter
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The season of sniffles and coughs has come again. But while influenza and RSV activity is “moderate and increasing” around California, COVID activity is unusually low…
