DENVER – A drug found in almost every medicine cabinet could be a treatment for a rare genetic disease. Ibuprofen can help children with mutations in a gene called rheumatoid arthritis MAN1B1suggests a study in fruit flies. Geneticist Clement Chow of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City reported the results Nov. 6 at … Read more
Human evolution is complex and fascinating, but it is full of different terms and names associated with past humans and hominids, which can be quite confusing. An example of this is the famous Cro-Magnon people who lived in Europe around the time of the last Ice Age (ca. 40,000 to 10,000 years ago). Although they … Read more
The police department in Yemassee, South Carolina, has warned locals to keep their windows and doors secure after 43 rhesus monkeys escaped from a nearby research facility. “On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at approximately 1 p.m., the Yemassee Police Department received an alert from Alpha Genesis regarding the escape of numerous rhesus monkeys from their … Read more
We all want to ‘age successfully’ with as few health problems as possible. A new study suggests that getting more than seven hours of sleep per night can go a long way toward achieving that goal. The study involved 3,306 participants aged 45 and over, whose sleep habits were recorded in 2011, 2013 and 2015, … Read more
TL; DR: Upgrade your knives to this Seido™ set, which comes with eight handmade knives in Japan for €129.97 (reg. €429) for two more days. Not to scare you or anything, but do you realize that Thanksgiving and the holidays are only a few weeks away? That means the busiest cooking season of the year … Read more
Artificial intelligence is quickly getting better at imitating its human creators. Generative AI can now convincingly hold conversations, produce art, make movies, and even teach itself how to replicate computer games. But as a new study from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Reichman University in Israel warns, artificial intelligence may also unintentionally … Read more
Russia launched 53 small satellites into orbit on Monday (November 4), a mix of Russian and international spacecraft. A Soyuz-2.1b aircraft carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage that lifted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East on Monday at 6:18 PM EST (2318 GMT; or 2:18 AM on November 5 local … Read more
Comets that rarely swing past the Sun could enter our planet, but we could see them with the help of the “crumb” like meteoroid traces they leave behind, a new study suggests. Many comets visit the solar system quite frequently, at least on a cosmic time scale. For example, Halley’s Comet zooms past Earth every … Read more
The dramatic collapse of the famed Arecibo telescope in 2020 was 39 months in the making, according to a new federal report. The just released Report of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found an “alarming” lack of documented concerns about the telescope’s safety and stability after it was damaged by Hurricane Maria … Read more
There are many paths to MCU canonization, but the most common is also the simplest: the cameo. It doesn’t matter if it’s Howard the Duck Guardians of the Galaxy or Kelsey Grammer at the end of The miracles; as long as you appear somewhere in the main MCU timeline, you’re good to go. But a … Read more