‘Boarding’ patients for days, weeks in crowded ERs is common now

When Hannah, a California marketing professional, showed up at her local emergency room in March 2023 for a pregnancy-related complication, she wasn’t prepared for what happened next. “I arrived at…

Musk’s X strips headlines from news links

Elon Musk has long railed against the “legacy media” and claims X, formerly Twitter, is a better source of information. Elon Musk’s social media platform X has stripped headlines from…

Seeking Euclid’s Hidden Stars: Commissioning Looks Up

Euclid commissioning – the period after launch when a mission’s instruments and subsystems are deployed, turned on, tested and calibrated – began well. Teams at ESA’s mission control worked 24 hours a day…

Supernova Bubble Expands in New Hubble Time-Lapse Movie

Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds – and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has caught the action. Expanding supernova bubble…

Ex-football players with medical and mental health conditions at higher odds of receiving premature CTE diagnosis

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Former professional American football players who have medical and mental health conditions including depression, anxiety or sleep apnea are more likely to receive an unverified diagnosis…

Decorated stela found in the 3,000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, |

Archaeologists have uncovered a decorated stela in the complex of Las Capellanías, located in Cañaveral de León, Spain. Las Capellanías is a large 3,000-year-old necropolis containing funerary monuments, ancient burial…

Many Dutch municipalities do not yet respond adequately to security vulnerabilities, research finds

Many local authorities respond too slowly or inadequately to reports about security vulnerabilities. These coordinated vulnerability disclosures (CVD reports) are often made by ethical hackers who aim to make the…

Using a Gas Jet to Bring Cosmic X-Ray Bursts into the Laboratory

The Science Neutron stars – extremely dense and exotic astronomical objects made almost entirely of neutrons – do not burn nuclear fuel to produce light. Instead, these strange objects can exist in binary…

Restoration works of Esna Temple reveals new celestial imagery |

An archaeological mission involving a joint Egyptian-German team have revealed new celestial imagery during cleaning and restoration works at the Temple of Esna. The Temple of Esna, also known as…

Space needs better ‘parking spots’ to stay usable, and an engineer is finding them

“Space is a common resource for humanity,” says David Arnas, a Purdue professor whose research is pointing out more sustainable ways to organize satellites in space. Credit: Purdue University photo/John…