Credit: CC0 Public Domain A 32-year-old woman from Alabama who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both gave birth to twin girls on different days, she announced…
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‘Urban mining’ offers green solution to old solar panels
Workers push damaged solar panels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable…
Insect compasses, fire-fighting vines: 2023’s nature-inspired tech
Some insects – such as ants and bees – navigate visually based on the intensity and polarization of sunlight. Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to…
Kids’ Trust in Robots vs Humans: A Study in Selective Learning
Summary: A new study explores how children aged three to five gauge the reliability of information from humans and robots. The study found that children display selective trust based on…
Childhood Brain Growth Linked to Gut Microbiome
Summary: A new study uncovers the significant influence of the gut microbiome on cognitive function and brain structure in healthy children. Analyzing data from 381 children in The RESONANCE cohort,…
Predicting Alzheimer’s dementia in oldest of the old
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study indicates that severity of amyloid deposition in the brain—not just age—may be key to determining who will benefit from new anti-amyloid therapies to…
Terracotta figurines found during excavations at Pompeii
Image Credit : POMPEIISITES Archaeologists have unearthed 13 terracotta figurines during excavations of a domus at Pompeii. Pompeii was a Roman city, located in the modern commune of Pompeii near…
SARS-CoV-2 rebound rate similar with, without oral antivirals
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rebound occurs at a similar rate for those receiving and not receiving oral antiviral treatment and for those receiving nirmatrelvir/ritonavir or placebo, according…
Flu and COVID infections are rising and could get worse over the holidays, CDC says
A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans’ Community Resource Center in Lynwood, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Health officials…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This…
