May 8, 2024 · I n April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s part of a new wave of would-be asteroid miners hoping to …

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Dec 23, 2024 · I n March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe shortness of breath. But no treatment could …

Dec 9, 2024 · B ut with the increased use of GLP-1s, haven’t we reached a tipping point? After all, around 12 percent of American adults have used a GLP-1 agonist, according to a KFF Health Tracking Poll, and about 6 percent, or roughly 15.5 million people, currently take one.The poll also found that just 38 percent of those taking GLP-1 drugs did so mainly to lose weight.

Mar 11, 2024 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can ...

Dec 5, 2024 · What work is “post” doing in “post-genomic?” One dictionary definition offers that “post” can be used as “a prefix, meaning ‘behind,’ ‘after,’ ‘later,’ ‘subsequent to,’ ‘posterior to.’” Its use in “post-genomic” does not indicate a world without genomics, but rather a scientific world where we take genomics for granted and it is no longer the bottleneck ...

Jan 3, 2025 · O ur relationship with death is a complex one. At an intellectual level, we understand our mortality, yet we go to great lengths to banish the notion from our minds. In most circumstances it’s a taboo subject for conversation.

4 days ago · A bout 8 years ago, Stefan Kertesz published a provocative commentary calling for the U.S. government to reconsider its response to the opioid epidemic. The epidemic was sparked by physicians who were over-prescribing pain medication, but those prescriptions leveled off around 2010 and then began to decline. Opioid-related deaths, however, continued to climb — driven not by prescription ...

Mar 6, 2024 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...

Jan 2, 2025 · At the same time, the pandemic has also prompted what some experts describe as a global boom in the construction of such facilities. As countries struggled to respond to the pandemic, many decided that they need more laboratories in …