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Charles Darwin’s frogs turn mating upside down
Turning around and backing up out of pools found in tree hollows may help mating Charles Darwin’s frogs find a safe place to lay their eggs while fending off competitive males
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A surprisingly wide range of bacteria live inside microwaves
Microwaves in homes, offices and laboratories have been found to host diverse microbiomes, highlighting the importance of regular cleaning
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Inside NASA's lab exploring conditions for life on other worlds
The Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a testbed exploring how geological conditions could impact life in environments such as early Earth, Mars or the icy moons of Jupiter
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Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock
Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the earliest forms of life on Earth
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Your gut bacteria are at war - and force their enemies to switch sides
Rival tribes of bacteria armed with poison darts are fighting it out in your gut, with armies of traitors often winning the day
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Extreme heat: Inside the expedition to find out how humans can adapt
Climate change means extreme heat will become the norm for millions across the world. We joined an experiment in the Saudi Arabian desert designed to find out what that means for our brains and bodies
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Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS crashing back to Earth
The International Space Station will burn up and splash down into the Pacific sometime around 2030. What could possibly go wrong? And will we ever see anything like the ISS again?
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Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer
A technique to charge a battery inside a quantum computer relies on sorting qubits in an imitation of Maxwell’s demon, a 19th-century thought experiment once thought to break the laws of physics
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What are the mysterious continent-sized lumps deep inside Earth?
For decades, planetary scientists have been trying to understand the origins of two colossal geological anomalies inside our planet. New insights suggest they could be leftovers from a cosmic collision
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Dramatic images show the dark side of cobalt mining boom
Pascal Maitre's photos from the Democratic Republic of Congo detail the problems arising as demand for cobalt grows
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Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body
A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments
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Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia
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How Does Melatonin Make You Feel, and Are There Side Effects?
Title: How Does Melatonin Make You Feel, and Are There Side Effects?
Category: Health and Living
Created: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
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Virtual Colonoscopy Can Spot Cancers Outside Colon
Title: Virtual Colonoscopy Can Spot Cancers Outside Colon
Category: Health News
Created: 8/20/2010 2:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 8/23/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Does Hope Have a Dark Side?
Title: Does Hope Have a Dark Side?
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Stopping Controversial Asthma Drugs Could Have Downside: Study
Title: Stopping Controversial Asthma Drugs Could Have Downside: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 8/27/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 8/28/2012 12:00:00 AM
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Flu Vaccine Protects Nursing Home Residents, Study Finds
Title: Flu Vaccine Protects Nursing Home Residents, Study Finds
Category: Health News
Created: 8/25/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Before Volcano Buried Pompeii, Toxic Water May Have Plagued Residents
Title: Before Volcano Buried Pompeii, Toxic Water May Have Plagued Residents
Category: Health News
Created: 8/29/2017 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
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Coronavirus' Weird Trip Inside Cells Might Be Its Undoing, Scientists Say
Title: Coronavirus' Weird Trip Inside Cells Might Be Its Undoing, Scientists Say
Category: Health News
Created: 8/24/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/24/2020 12:00:00 AM
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President Trump Promises a COVID Vaccine Before the End of the Year
Title: President Trump Promises a COVID Vaccine Before the End of the Year
Category: Health News
Created: 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AM
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How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency
Nested within a growing body of evidence of a gender pay gap in medicine are more alarming recent findings from family medicine: a gender pay gap of 16% can be detected at a very early career stage. This article explores qualitative evidence of women’s experiences negotiating for their first job out of residency to ascertain women’s engagement with and approach to the negotiation process.
We recruited family physicians who graduated residency in 2019 and responded to the American Board of Family Medicine 2022 graduate survey. We developed a semistructured interview guide following a modified life history approach to uncover women’s experiences through the transitory stages from residency to workforce. A qualitative researcher used Zoom to interview 19 geographically and racially diverse early career women physicians. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using NVivo software following an Inductive Content Analysis approach.
Three main themes emerged from the data. First, salary was found to be nonnegotiable, exemplified by participants’ inability to change initial salary offers. Second, the role of peer support throughout residency and early career was crucial to uncovering and rectifying salary inequity. Third, a pay expectation gap was identified among women from minority and low-income households.
To rectify the gender pay gap in medicine, a systems-level approach is required. This can be achieved through various levels of interventions: societally expanding the use of and removing the stigma around parental leave, recognizing the importance of contributions not currently valued by productivity-based payment models, examining assumptions about leadership; and institutionally moving away from fee-for-service systems, encouraging flexible schedules, increasing salary transparency, and improving advancement transparency.
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Precautions to Consider in the Analysis of Prognostic and Predictive Indices
Understanding the differences between prognostic and predictive indices is imperative for medical research advances. We have developed a new prognostic measure that will identify the strengths, limitations, and potential applications in clinical practice.
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Family Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Infrastructure, Output, and Dissemination: A CERA Survey [Original Research]
Meeting scholarly activity requirements continues to be a challenge in many family medicine (FM) residency programs. Studies comprehensively describing FM resident scholarship have been limited. We sought to identify institutional factors associated with increased scholarly output and meeting requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Our goals were to: (1) describe scholarly activity experiences among FM residents compared with ACGME requirements; (2) classify experiences by Boyer’s domains of scholarship; and (3) associate experiences with residency program characteristics and scholarly activity infrastructure.
This was a cross-sectional survey. The survey questions were part of an omnibus survey to FM residency program directors conducted by the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA). All ACGME-accredited US FM residency program directors, identified by the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, were sampled.
Of the 691 eligible program directors, 298 (43%) completed the survey. The respondents reported that 25% or more residents exceeded ACGME minimum output, 17% reported that 25% or more residents published their work, and 50% reported that 25% or more residents delivered conference presentations. Programs exceeding ACGME scholarship requirements exhibit robust infrastructure characterized by access to faculty mentorship, scholarly activity curricula, Institutional Review Board, medical librarian, and statistician.
These findings suggest the need for codified ACGME requirements for scholarly activity infrastructure to ensure access to resources in FM residency programs. By fostering FM resident engagement in scholarly activity, programs help to create a culture of inquiry, and address discrepancies in funding and output among FM residency programs.
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Pauline Hanson’s ‘pain in her backside’
PAULINE Hanson has described Rod Culleton as a “pain in the backside”, and despite being disqualified from the Senate he’s continuing to cause her pain.
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Scottish investment group sells off software subsidiary
Scottish investment giant abrdn has sold its Focus Solutions software business and is said to be eyeing other potential disposals
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Typing Of The Dead meets Resident Evil with co-op in Blood Typers, which has a demo you can play now
Typing Of The Dead released in arcades 25 years ago remains a masterpiece - funny, absurd, tense, and novel. I am keen on any game that aims to follow in its footsteps, and there are a few. The latest is Blood Typers, a horror game where you tippity-tap on your keyboard to fight montsters in a spooky mansion, but this isn't a rail shooter, so you'll be typing to explore and navigate, too.
It's now got a release of February 2025, and there's a demo you can play now.
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Trump ignites furor with claim past presidents didn’t console military families by phone
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: new questions surrounding the deaths of four Green Berets in the Western African nation of Niger and the role of the president as consoler in chief.
John Yang has the story.
JOHN YANG: Sending young Americans into harm’s way can be the most serious decision a president makes. Consoling the families of the fallen has become the latest controversy to engulf President Trump.
To bolster his claim that he does more than his predecessors, Mr. Trump today invoked the dead son of his chief of staff, retired Marine general John Kelly.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: To the best of my knowledge, I think I have called every family of somebody that’s died. Now, as far as other representatives, I don’t know. I mean, you could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?
JOHN YANG: Kelly’s 29-year-old son, Robert, a Marine lieutenant, was killed in 2010 when he stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan, an episode Kelly rarely talks about publicly. Kelly and his wife did attend a 2011 Memorial Day breakfast President Obama hosted for Gold Star families.
President Trump ignited the furor when he was asked about his public silence on four Green Berets killed two weeks ago in Niger.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.
JOHN YANG: Reporters pressed him to back up the claim.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know. That’s what I was told. All I can do — all I can do is ask my generals.
JOHN YANG: The response from former Obama officials was swift and forceful.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted this photo and insisted: “Stop the damn lying. I went to Dover Air Force base with 44 and saw him comfort families,” a reference to one of Mr. Obama’s late-night trips to pay his respects to troops killed in Afghanistan.
Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush often visited wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals, a practice Mr. Trump has continued. In February, the president and his daughter Ivanka went to Dover for the return of the remains of a Navy SEAL killed in Yemen, the first casualty of his administration.
So far this year, the Pentagon says 16 Americans have been killed in action. Another 17 sailors died in accidents. In the first year of the Obama presidency, 344 were killed in action.
During last year’s campaign, Mr. Trump publicly feuded with the Khans, the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, after they criticized him at the Democratic Convention.
Today, the Khans said: “President Trump’s selfish and divisive actions have undermined the dignity of the high office of the presidency.”
The current controversy comes as questions are being raised about how and why the four soldiers died in Niger.
Senator Jack Reed is the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
SEN. JACK REED, D-R.I.: I think the administration has to be much more clear about our role in Niger and our role in other areas in Africa and other parts of the globe.
JOHN YANG: The Pentagon is investigating the deaths. Reportedly among the questions, did commanders adequately assess the risk, and was there ready access to medical support?
Today, President Trump called the families of the four dead Green Berets.
For the PBS NewsHour, I’m John Yang.
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Strange planets could be forming inside dying stars
A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star – this could be the origin of some of the most promising worlds beyond our solar system to search for life
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Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS crashing back to Earth
The International Space Station will burn up and splash down into the Pacific sometime around 2030. What could possibly go wrong? And will we ever see anything like the ISS again?
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Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed stars
Brown dwarfs could be hiding dark matter inside their cores – if they are, there would be signs that could help us track it down
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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time
Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas
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'Free, fair and fast': Officials quietly begin certifying presidential election results
Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year's presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump's loss.
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Inside the report that reveals the extent of DEI spending in HHS
A new report by OpenTheBooks reveals that the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) employs 294 people in diversity-focused positions, with 182 of them earning six-figure salaries.
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Inside Apple Mac week: New power, smarter AI, bold innovations
Apple recently announced its new lineup of Macs and rolled out Apple Intelligence, its latest artificial intelligence-powered feature for its products.
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Score big on Amazon Black Friday 2024 with my insider tips
Amazon's Black Friday sales event starts Friday, Nov. 22. Kurt the CyberGuy offers some tips on how to get the best deals on merchandise.
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Spain’s Nadal Trains for 1st Time inside Davis Cup Venue
… Trains for 1st Time inside Davis Cup Venue VALENCIA, Spain – World No … the Spanish national team’s Davis Cup quarterfinals against Germany. Nadal, who ….
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Ashes chaos as Travis Head becomes first player from either side to test positive for Covid
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Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body
A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments
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Justice Alito plans to remain on Supreme Court, resisting pressure to step aside: report
Trump would face little to no resistance in confirming his picks for Supreme Court justices in the majority-GOP Congress, but Alito has no plans to step down.
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What a Trump presidency could mean for Canadian pocketbooks
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Will Canada Post deliver? A look inside the labour dispute, the stakes and what comes next
Canada Post workers might soon be putting down their mailbags and grabbing picket signs
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Trump's picks so far: Here's who will be advising the new president
Since winning the election last week, President-elect Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out his Cabinet picks, with dozens of names jockeying for some two dozen positions.
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Georgia on outside of College Football Playoff bracket as wild week brings rankings shakeup
Georgia's loss to Ole Miss Saturday brought a wild shakeup to the college football rankings, and the Bulldogs find themselves out of the playoff picture.
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Man arrested in NYC strangulation death of woman found outside Times Square hotel
Authorities arrested a man accused of strangling a woman outside a Times Square hotel who later died from her injuries, police said Tuesday.
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Kamala Harris: What to Know About the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate
Read on for everything you should know about the history-making politician.
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President-Elect Donald Trump Picks William McGinley to Serve as White House Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday evening that he had chosen William McGinley to serve as his White House Counsel.
The post President-Elect Donald Trump Picks William McGinley to Serve as White House Counsel appeared first on Breitbart.
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President-Elect Donald Trump Picks Businessman Steven Witkoff to Be Special Envoy to Middle East
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has picked businessman and real estate investor Steven Witkoff to serve as Special Envoy to the Middle East.
The post President-Elect Donald Trump Picks Businessman Steven Witkoff to Be Special Envoy to Middle East appeared first on Breitbart.
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Fetterman Calls Rubio 'Strong Choice' as Trump Reportedly Considers Him for Secretary of State
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) weighed in on reports regarding President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state.
The post Fetterman Calls Rubio ‘Strong Choice’ as Trump Reportedly Considers Him for Secretary of State appeared first on Breitbart.