Credit: CC0 Public Domain Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy complications and mental health conditions, according to a new national scorecard…
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Drones could revolutionize the construction industry, supporting a new UK housing boom
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The UK’s new Labor government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and…
Some have called this area a birthing ‘desert.’ A nurse midwife is working to change that
Credit: SHVETS production from Pexels Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child. Logan was determined to have her…
UK teenagers get two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods—new study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Humans have been processing food for thousands of years. While some processing can increase food’s safety and shelf-life, consuming lots of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is linked…
Webb Telescope finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star
An international team of astronomers, including scientists from the University of Arizona, has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young,…
Fresh wind blows from historical supernova
A mysterious remnant from a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained for the first time. Two white dwarf stars collided, creating a temporary “guest star,” now…
Airlines resume services after global IT crash wreaks havoc
Passengers crowded into airports to wait for news as dozens of flights were cancelled. Airlines were gradually coming back online Saturday after global carriers, banks and financial institutions were thrown…
Summer COVID surge isn’t cause for alarm, experts say
Credit: CC0 Public Domain President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week became prime examples of the nation’s newest COVID-19 wave, and although it’s unclear…
3,800-year-old textile dyed using insects found in desert cave
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have discovered the earliest known example in Israel of red-dyed textiles made using insects. The…
