What factors lead to chronic respiratory disease? Researchers investigated this question using health data from about 780 infants. Their analysis shows that children’s risk of developing asthma later in life can be more reliably predicted by observing the dynamic development of symptoms during the first year of life. About one in ten children suffers from … Read more
Large swathes of eastern and central Nepal have been inundated since Friday with flash floods reported in several rivers and extensive damage to the country’s highways. Residents of Nepal’s flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods that have killed at least 104 people across the Himalayan … Read more
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A new artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin paves the way for more effective and less toxic treatments and new preventive strategies in medicine. The AI model informs the design of protein-based therapies and vaccines by leveraging the underlying logic from nature’s evolutionary processes. The AI advance, called … Read more
This photo provided by The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management shows California condors inside a pen before being released on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 from Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. Credit: The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Kamala Harris on Sunday picked up the endorsement of another prominent opponent of Donald Trump within the Republican Party, a sign that the remaining “#NeverTrump” … Read more
When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a much-advanced version of that pressing, twisting tool to squeeze and shear materials between two diamonds to see in situ, within the actual … Read more
Beach chairs are piled up after Hurricane Helene hit Treasure Island with high surge waters. Michael Ward—who has lived on Treasure Island, off Florida’s Gulf coast, for 33 years—decided to ride out Hurricane Helene despite an order to evacuate. It was a decision he quickly regretted. Instead of going with his wife to a friend’s … Read more
Fox Weather reporter rescues woman from Atlanta flooding The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US At least 64 people have died as a result of Hurricane … Read more
The risk of being born with a major heart defect is 36% higher in babies who were conceived after assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to results of a very large study published in the European Heart Journal today. Researchers say the finding is important since congenital heart defects are the … Read more
