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Insights on Human Gaze Behavior in Various Situations

Review Reveals Limitations in Perinatal Palliative Care Evidence

Language Barrier Impact on Emergency Room Triage

Wildfire Smoke and Heat Stress Impact Birth Outcomes

New Solution Improves Accuracy of Fitness Trackers

Study Reveals Infant Pain Response Development

Study Reveals Herpes Simplex Virus-1's Host Hijacking

Northeastern US Heat Wave: Varied Risks for Safety

Conference Explores Chemosensory Testing in Healthcare

New Study Reveals Promising Colorectal Cancer Treatment

New Gene Therapy Method Revives Inactive Genes

Soccer Ball Heading Alters Brain: University of Sydney Study

Precision Psychiatry Roadmap Revolutionizes Diagnosis

Study Links Well-Being to Lower Memory Loss

Anti-Aging Drug Rapamycin Equals Life Extension

Intermittent Fasting Equals Traditional Diets for Weight Loss

Rising Unintentional Fall Deaths Among Older White Americans

Nutrition's Impact on Cancer Patients' Health

Patient Diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Due to Fusion Gene

Study: Inflation Reduction Act Won't Impact R&D Investment

Histamine's Impact on Exercise Performance

Puberty Hormonal Changes Impacting Transgender Youth

Weight-Loss Behaviors Overlooked in Eating Disorder Diagnoses

Cannabis Use Doubles Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Virtual Ward Bed Lowers Carbon Emissions for NHS

Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Benefit from Combination Therapy

Hospital Pharmacist Guidance Improves COPD Inhaler Use

UCLA Study: Cardiac Markers Link Cancer & Heart Disease

University of Twente Unveils First MDR-Compliant Open-Source Medical Device

Managing Age-Related Risks: Advances in Geroprotection

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SpaceX Rocket Test Ends in Texas Explosion

Hurricane Erick Strengthens Rapidly Towards Mexico Coast

Life Finds Shelter in Pools of Melted Ice During Earth's Freeze

Peatlands Expansion in European & Canadian Arctic

U.S. Government to Open Fly Factory in Texas

Climate Change Indicators Surge: Scientists Sound Alarm

New Rules to Protect Cats and Dogs: Microchipping and Bans

10 Cents or 1-in-10,000 Shot at $1,000: What's Your Pick?

"Technology for Mass-Producing Artificial Cells with Model Nuclei"

Astronomers Find Massive Hot Gas Filament Linking Galaxy Clusters

Global Climate Change Study Warns of Carbon Budget Exhaustion

Canada Seeks Top US Scientists Amid Trump Crackdown

Volcano Eruption: Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki Alert Raised

Amazonian Scorpion Venom: Potential Cancer Drug

Plant Cell Wall Components: Abundant Sources for Biofuels

Study Reveals UK's Changing Extreme Hot Episode Trends

4,000 Tree Species in Mexico & Central America Face Extinction

Newly Discovered Armored Monstersaurian in Southern Utah

The Manchurian Candidate and The IPCRESS File: Brainwashing Revisited

Rare Earth Metals: Key Assets in Trade War

Willow Leaves Reduce Ammonia Emissions in Cattle Farming

Cloud Fraction Diurnal Variation Impact on Earth's Climate

Global Environmental Crisis: Urgent Need for Real-Time Data

E. Coli: Antibiotic Resistance Testing in Agricultural Environments

Europe Faces Devastating Floods: 335 Lives Lost

Genetic Markers Boost Meat Quality in Nelore Cattle

Disposable Face Masks: Impact on Environment and Health

Study Reveals Strategic Market Withdrawal Boosts International Firm Growth

Danish Primary Schools Rely on Google Tech

WVU Researchers Develop Flood Resilience Toolkit

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NTSB urges quick fix on Boeing plane engines to prevent smoke from filling cabin after a bird strike

Boeing 737 Max Engines Modified for Safety

Waymo Seeks Permit for Self-Driving Car Tests in New York

Waymo looks to test its self-driving cars in New York

Justice at stake as generative AI enters the courtroom

GenAI Impact on Courts: Legal System and Justice

AI Model Uses Tokens to Generate Answers

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

Repurposing Coal Mines for Solar Panels: Unlikely Green Energy Solution

Energy transition: How coal mines could go solar

Meta Attempts $100 Million Bonuses to Lure OpenAI Talent

Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman

A new tool predicts when users will reject a new technology

Paradoxical Relationship: High Hopes, Tech Skepticism

Singapore Engineers Develop Flying Drum Robot

Two-actuator robot combines efficient ground rolling and spinning flight in one design

Study Reveals Language Models Overemphasize Start and End

Lost in the middle: How LLM architecture and training data shape AI's position bias

AI Video Reconstruction of Christopher Pelkey's Impact Statement Leads to Maximum Sentence

AI 'reanimations': Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries

Global Fossil Fuel Phase-Out by 2050: G20's Renewable Energy Potential

G20 countries could produce enough renewable energy for the whole world: What needs to happen

Dutch Government Urges Parents to Limit Social Media for Kids

Dutch suggest social media ban for under-15s

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA

Why stablecoins are gaining popularity

Global Oil Demand to Dip in 2030: International Energy Agency

US Senate to Vote on Regulating Stablecoins

Rising Popularity of AI Chatbots for Daily News

London Workshop Develops Prototype for Capturing Ship Emissions

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Friday, December 04, 2020

Iron deficiency can be managed better

Australian and European researchers have released updated, evidence-based guidance for managing iron deficiency, a serious worldwide health problem.

Increased school choice linked to better mental health for students

Allowing families to choose schools that are more suited to their children may play a key role in improving student mental health, including reducing adolescent suicide rates, suggests new research published in the peer-reviewed journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement.

New review confirms disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Hispanic populations

Black and Hispanic populations are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, according to a systematic review published this week.

People with rare autoimmune diseases at increased risk of dying during COVID-19 pandemic

A new study, led by experts from the University of Nottingham, has shown that people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases are at a greater risk of dying at a younger age during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pediatric ER saw steep drop in asthma visits during spring COVID-19 lockdown

A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society discusses a steep drop off from prior years in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits at Boston Children's Hospital during the spring 2020 COVID-19 surge and lockdown.

China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun'

China successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, state media reported Friday, marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-nuclear-powered-artificial-sun.html

A plant immune receptor: It takes four to tango

A collaborative study on a plant intracellular immune receptor from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) not only shows how an important resistance protein is activated during pathogen infection but also reveals some common operational principles with immunity proteins from humans.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-immune-receptor-tango.html

UK vows 68 percent emissions cut by end of decade

Britain will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than two-thirds this decade, in what the government on Thursday said would be the fastest reduction of any major economy.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-uk-vows-percent-emissions-decade.html

Ecuador finds nest of huge, endangered sea turtle

Conservationists in Ecuador have found a nest of endangered leatherback sea turtles, a whopper of a species that can weigh up to a tonne and be three meters (10 feet) long.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-ecuador-huge-endangered-sea-turtle.html

Pacific Islands Forum to hold virtual climate summit

Pacific island leaders will hold a virtual summit next week to demand urgent worldwide action on climate change ahead of UN-brokered talks on the issue.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-pacific-islands-forum-virtual-climate.html

NASA buying Moon dust for $1

The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000, rock-bottom prices that are intended to set a precedent for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-nasa-moon.html

Trash tracking satellites help Indonesia tackle marine waste

Every year, pounding rains wash away mountains of plastic waste from the streets of Jakarta, with some of it ending up as far away as Bali's beaches. So scientists are turning to satellites to trace the rubbish and figure out how to tackle the problem.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-trash-tracking-satellites-indonesia-tackle.html

California monolith pops up after finds in Utah, Romania

Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths half a world apart, another towering structure has popped up and then quickly vanished, this time from the pinnacle of a trail in California.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-california-monolith-utah-romania.html

Amazon workers in bid to unionize at Alabama warehouse

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are seeking to form a union, setting up a potential battle in the Deep South with a company that has opposed unionization efforts.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-amazon-workers-unionize-alabama-warehouse.html

Tapping overlooked marketing data to drive business growth

Researchers from University of Houston, Columbia University, Emory University, and University of Connecticut published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that reviews factors that contribute to the disconnect between the data companies create and the productive use of that data.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-overlooked-business-growth.html

Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence in carbon nanotubes

That carbon nanotubes fluoresce is no longer a surprise. Finding a second level of fluorescence is surprising and potentially useful.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-chemists-peek-fluorescence-carbon-nanotubes.html

Scientists took a rare chance to prove we can quantify biodiversity by 'testing the water'

Organisms excrete DNA in their surroundings through metabolic waste, sloughed skin cells or gametes, and this genetic material is referred to as environmental DNA (eDNA).

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-scientists-rare-chance-quantify-biodiversity.html

Advancing gene editing with new CRISPR/Cas9 variant

Using a new variant to repair DNA will improve both safety and effectiveness of the much-touted CRISPR-Cas9 tool in genetic research, Michigan Medicine researchers say.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-advancing-gene-crisprcas9-variant.html

New DNA modification 'signature' discovered in zebrafish

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered a new form of DNA modification in the genome of zebrafish, a vertebrate animal that shares an evolutionary ancestor with humans ~400 million years ago.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-dna-modification-signature-zebrafish.html

Special delivery: Japan space probe to bring asteroid dust to Earth

Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-special-delivery-japan-space-probe.html