A man closes the door of a shop in Cairo, Egypt, to comply with the government’s order for businesses to shut down nightly at 9 p.m. Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua News Agency/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua News Agency/via Getty Images In Cairo, streets come alive in the evening as many people go out…
Chronic hepatitis B increases the risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer in adulthood, and a three-dose vaccine series is recommended starting at birth. Among U.S. infants born from 2014 to 2023, this study found that 18.8% never received a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. In those who missed that birth dose, 73.2% of…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Though I’ve spent years evangelizing for the Boox Palma 2, a phone-sized Chinese e-reader with an open Android operating system, my allegiances have shifted in recent months. I’m now obsessed with the tiny, slightly janky, minimalist devices put out by Xteink, another Chinese tech company….
AI-generated images are getting harder and harder to spot. There are the usual tells, of course, but those tells are minimizing with each new AI image model. You could count on AI-generated hands including too many or too few fingers on people, for example; nowadays, that’s not necessarily the case. One particular area of weakness…
Dwindling motivation leads to promotion burnout. At least, that’s a takeaway from the more than 1,000 female employees surveyed by British recruitment agency Robert Walters about their career ambitions. According to the results, over 50% of those surveyed complained of dwindling motivation at work and little to no ambition to climb the career ladder. Between…
On Friday afternoon, X officially launched XChat, the company’s proprietary chat app. Unlike other chat app options, like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal, you need an X account to use XChat, which limits the user base to one specific social media platform. X users with a large enough social circle on the platform may find this…
Stephan Schlamminger and his colleague, Vincent Lee, examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant R. Eskalis/NIST For centuries, physicists have been trying to measure the strength of gravity, a number called “big G”. The measurements have never lined up with one another, hinting that either we don’t fully understand our experiments…
The investigational cell therapy deramiocel slowed upper limb functional decline in boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, data from the phase III HOPE-3 trial showed. At 12 months, the mean percent change from baseline in Performance of Upper Limb 2.0 (PUL 2.0) total score was −3.86 in the deramiocel group and −8.41 in…
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Advocates for the LGBTQ+ community claimed a win this week after the Trump administration pledged to reinstate the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline specialized support program tailored to their needs. During a Senate hearing earlier this week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked whether he would commit to restoring the tailored line for…
