The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its flagship Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission on Friday (April 14), producing some stunning images in the process. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying…
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Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning
An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate. Mifepristone is a…
Excavation leads to discovery of gold coins
Image Credit : Lower Silesian Voivodship Conservator of Monuments Archaeologists excavating in the Polish city of Wrocław have discovered gold coins dating from the 18th century. The discovery was made…
What does the end of the public health emergency for COVID really mean?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have one answer. Restaurant-goers on Peachtree Street surely have another.…
New insights into quantum materials
(a) Pictorial view of the starlike lattice reconstruction in the CDW phase of 1T−TaSe2. (b) Surface-projected Brillouin zone (BZ) of the undistorted “normal” state. The red dashed lines mimic the Fermi surface…
International consensus highlights the importance of molecular testing for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis
A multidisciplinary group of tuberculosis experts from the TBnet and RESIST-TB networks have reached a consensus on key issues related to the molecular prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic sensitivity or…
Surface shaking could trigger landslides
Examples of ridge-and-trough terrains from the four studied icy satellites. Arrows point along representative scarps in each example. (a) Boundary between Harpagia Sulcus and Nicholson Regio, Ganymede (Planetary Data System…
About 100,000 US nurses left workforce during pandemic
During the pandemic, nearly 100,000 U.S. registered nurses called it quits, a new survey shows. Why? A combination of stress, burnout and retirements created a perfect storm for the exodus.…
Austria has catching up to do in prevention and care of mental illness during the first year after pregnancy
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Conceptual Model, WA model of care. Credit: Perinatal and infant mental health care models and pathways (2023). The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA)…
Health care-associated infections higher for patients hospitalized with COVID-19
The incidence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) was higher among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 than for patients without COVID-19, according to a study published online April 13 in JAMA Network…
