Will we enjoy work more once routine tasks are automated? – Not necessarily, a study shows
Research suggests that when routine work tasks are being replaced with intelligent technologies, the result…
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Identified: A mechanism that protects plant fertility from stress
As temperatures rise due to global warming the need to protect plants from stressful conditions…
Searching for novel targets for new antibiotics
Ribosome formation is viewed as a promising potential target for new antibacterial agents. Researchers have…
To sustain a thriving café culture, we must ditch the disposable cup.
Takeaway coffees – they’re a convenient start for millions of people each day, but while…
New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations
Technological innovation in the last century was mainly based on the control of electrons or…
Protein kinases significantly contribute to the immunodeficiency in HIV patients
A new study indicates that protein kinases, which initiate the process that erodes the body’s…
Cultural challenges are limiting changes to social care
Manthorpe and Iliffe state that sustainability in the care home market is intrinsically linked to…
Staying in the shade: How cells use molecular motors to avoid bright light
A team has discovered a key component of the molecular motors that drive motility in…
Wrasses dazzle: How fairy wrasses got their flamboyant colors
With their exuberant colors, fiery personalities and captivating courtship displays, the fairy wrasses are one…
New treatment unlocks potential for baking raspberries
Scientists have figured out a way to treat raspberries before they’re frozen so that they…
Rocket launches reveal water vapor effect in upper atmosphere
Results of a 2018 multirocket launch will help scientists better understand the impact of more…
Climate change threatens European forests
Well over half of Europe’s forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire and…
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Physicists have discovered a way to trap the world’s coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle,…
How ‘great’ was the great oxygenation event?
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in…
The right ‘5-a-day’ mix is 2 fruit and 3 vegetable servings for longer life
Higher consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death in…
Single cell sequencing opens new avenues for eradicating leukemia at its source
Cancer stem cells that elude conventional treatments like chemotherapy drive long-term cancer growth and relapse….
Microplastic sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and coastal ocean revealed
Scientists for the first time have pinpointed the sizes of microplastics from a highly urbanized…
High school students tend to get more motivated over time
Parents may fear that if their high school student isn’t motivated to do well in…
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant stars
Red supergiants are a class of star that end their lives in supernova explosions. Their…
Covid-19: UK officials try to trace unidentified case of Brazil variant
Public health officials are trying to trace an unidentified person in England who has been…
Colin Dollery: clinical pharmacologist and moderniser, who embraced technology
bmj;372/mar01_8/n582/FAF1faColin Dollery, professor of clinical pharmacology and medicine and consultant clinical pharmacologist, who has died…
Researcher broke embargo to leak BMJ paper to Trump administration
A medical researcher who took a political appointment with the Trump administration while working on…
Government faces legal action over {pound}23m deal involving patient data
NHS England is facing a legal challenge against its decision to award a two year…
Care homes: reversing decades of policy neglect
Manthorpe and Iliffe go some way to identifying the risk of failure in the care…
Sixty seconds on . . . flu
Flu, is that thing still around?Of course, although to be fair there isn’t much about…
Acute covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
What you need to knowChildren with acute covid-19 can present with non-specific symptoms. Exclude covid-19…
“We are setting ourselves on fire to keep everyone else warm”—what does the recovery look like for NHS staff?
The number of people in UK hospitals with covid-19 is currently just under 17 000,…
Valuing staff in a pandemic: emergency medicine consultant Stevan Bruijns
Yeovil Hospital emergency department clinical lead Stevan Bruijns believes that a workforce that feels empowered…
Imaging space debris in high resolution
Researchers have introduced a new method for taking high-resolution images of fast-moving and rotating objects…
When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local, not global
Scientists have long used information from sediments at the bottom of the ocean to reconstruct…
Docs cry foul over proposed CPSO policy changes for alternative medicine – Toronto Sun
Docs cry foul over proposed CPSO policy changes for alternative medicine Toronto Sun Read Original Article:…
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
A team of international researchers went back to the formation of the solar system 4.6…
J&J passes panel review, nears EUA
On Wednesday, the FDA announced that the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccine was safe, more…
Measuring the tRNA world
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) deliver specific amino acids to ribosomes during translation of messenger RNA into…
Quantum quirk yields giant magnetic effect, where none should exist
In a twist befitting the strange nature of quantum mechanics, physicists have discovered the Hall…
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Exposure to diverse career paths can help fill labor market ‘skills gap’
When Patrick Rottinghaus began college, he had no idea what he wanted to do with…
Gordon McVie: medical oncologist who helped drive the formation of Cancer Research UK
bmj;372/feb26_8/n570/FAF1faGordon McVie, the medical oncologist who helped orchestrate the merger of the Cancer Research Campaign…
Covid-19: NHS England pledges extra funding to local areas to reduce vaccine inequalities
Local NHS commissioners are to receive extra financial support to boost uptake of covid-19 vaccine…
Covid-19: Young mother should be allowed to die in “almost unbearable” tragedy, says ȷudge
A High Court judge has ruled that a 32 year old woman with covid-19, in…
Did teenage ‘tyrants’ outcompete other dinosaurs?
Paleo-ecologists have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may…
Covid-19: Outcomes worsened in second wave for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in England
Disparities in risk of infection and death worsened for Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in the second…
Enteric fever
What you need to knowIn endemic areas and in returning travellers, consider enteric fever in…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority groups
With mass covid-19 vaccination efforts under way in many countries, including the UK, we need…
Covid-19 and evolutionary pressure: can we predict which genetic dangers lurk beyond the horizon?
Emerging data show that the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 might be associated with an increased…
Podcast: GMO ‘terminator’ seeds debunked; ‘Alternative medicine’ harms women; Cancer-fighting CRISPR beer? – Genetic Literacy Project
Podcast: GMO ‘terminator’ seeds debunked; ‘Alternative medicine’ harms women; Cancer-fighting CRISPR beer? Genetic Literacy Project Read…
Increase in public interest concerning alternative medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: a Google Trends study – DocWire News
Increase in public interest concerning alternative medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: a Google…
Words from the Wise about Covid and the Heart
Covid-19 is having a surprising effect on the heart and vascular system. We spoke to…
Chip simplifies COVID-19 testing, delivers results on a phone
Programmed magnetic nanobeads paired with an off-the-shelf cellphone and plug-in diagnostic tool can diagnose COVID-19…
Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter’s asteroids
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among…
Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as…