Iraq sandstorm sends more than 1,000 to hospital
More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments on Thursday due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said......»»
AI chip boom sends Nvidia"s stock surging after whopper of a quarter
The AI boom is here, and Nvidia is reaping all the benefits. Shares of Nvidia exploded 28% higher Thursday after reporting earnings and sales that surged well above Wall Street's already lofty expectations......»»
Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes
The malicious iRecorder app has come to light, but its purpose remains shrouded. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 m.....»»
Indictment of former Apple self-driving engineer sends message on national security risk, experts say
Tech investment is crucial, but the industry must know security risk......»»
Third round of Meta layoffs sends another 6,000 to the unemployment line
Meta has begun making the last of what it has claimed would be three major rounds of layoffs, although there may yet be further smaller series of redundancies to come.Facebook's parent company initially laid off 11,000 in November 2022, and at the ti.....»»
How the epigenetic landscape modulates pioneer transcription factor binding
Like thread tightly wrapped around a spool, DNA is wrapped around histones and packaged into structures called nucleosomes. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are exploring how a type of transcription factor called a pioneer transcri.....»»
Red tide toxin sent them to the hospital. See what happened to a pair of Florida turtles
A crowd of beachgoers cheered and hollered on Tuesday as they watched Mote Marine staff release two loggerhead sea turtles, named Lilly and Farmer, into the water at Lido Beach in Sarasota......»»
RSV vaccine to protect infants gets green light from FDA advisers
Faint data signal of possible increased risk of premature birth caused some concern. Enlarge / A father cares for his 8-and-a-half-month-old son, who is in the intensive care unit of the pediatric clinic at St. Joseph Hospital in.....»»
Bronze Age long-distance connections: Baltic amber in Aššur
In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC. Their material has now been identified as amber using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The beads repre.....»»
New research maps out exactly what happens when agriculture replaces forestry
Humans first started farming about 12,000 years ago. On the shores of the Euphrates and the Tigris, in what is now Iraq and Syria, small groups of people started to grow peas, lentils and barley independently of each other. They felled trees to make.....»»
What Nurses Make in a Hospital Makerspace
“I knew nurses were making because I did it myself” – Rose Hedges Rose Hedges of UnityPoint Health in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Anna Young of Maker Health join me to talk about how a makerspace on the first floor of a hospital has cre.....»»
Chinese Mars rover sends back images of recent water-shaped crusts
Within the last million years or so, melted snow might have dampened Mars' sands. Enlarge / Orbital image of the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) Most of Mars appears to be an e.....»»
Apple Watch fall detection kicks in after Minnesota man is hit by a car; Tim Cook sends well wishes
Time and time again, Apple Watch’s fall detection feature has been proven to be a versatile and lifesaving feature. Now, a man in Minnesota is crediting his Apple Watch with seeking help on his behalf after he was hit by a car in his own neighborh.....»»
Even if there"s life on TRAPPIST-1, we probably can"t detect it
If we ever find life on other worlds, it is unlikely to be a powerful message from space. It's certainly possible that an alien civilization specifically sends us a radio message like a scene out of Contact, but the more likely scenario is that we ob.....»»
NHS sends alerts COVID-19 app has shut down in England and Wales
Users of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales are no longer able to use the app, due to the shutdown of the service on Thursday.The NHS COVID-19 app for England and Wales. Like many other countries around the world, the UK's National Health Serv.....»»
Sizing them up: An algorithm to accurately quantify rapeseed silique morphology
Rapeseed or oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an important crop cultivated worldwide for its oil-rich seeds. The rapeseed silique is an organ that plays a role in photosynthesis, sends developmental signals to maturing seeds, and provides a capsule.....»»
Researchers describe mechanisms that could prevent infections with the influenza A and Ebola viruses
Viruses like influenza A and Ebola invade human cells in a number of steps. In an interdisciplinary approach, research teams from Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital investigated the final stages of viral penetration using electr.....»»
Fresh air and cold plasma could break down hospital PPE waste
The COVID-19 pandemic created an explosion in the use of disposable face masks around the globe. This added to the already significant amount of PPE waste generated by hospitals and in other medical settings......»»
UK Emergency Alert on my phone: what does it mean?
At 3 PM British Summer Time in the United Kingdom, the government has sent out a test text message for the Emergency Alert system. This system sends critical alert notifications to smartphones. more… The post UK Emergency Alert on my phone: what.....»»
Thailand air pollution leads millions to seek medical help
About 2.4 million people in Thailand have sought hospital treatment for medical problems linked to air pollution since the start of the year, health officials said, as toxic smog chokes parts of the country......»»
GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic
Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not so fast. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a pixel art hospital with empty windows. (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) On Monday, Microsoft and Epic.....»»