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Medical Xpress / The 'Golden Hour': Distance and delay define rural trauma care timelines

Billings Clinic investigators tracked trauma patients arriving directly from the scene versus patients transferred between facilities and found much longer times to reach the tertiary center for transfers, while adjusted ...

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Phys.org / DART images reveal asteroids can toss slow 'cosmic snowballs' between moons

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic neighborhood.

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Tech Xplore / 'AI will be the end of us': Is Colm Tóibín right about the threat to creative writing?

In 1950, William Faulkner delivered a famous acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature in which he rallied for the "inexhaustible [human] voice" and his belief in its supremacy—not merely to endure but to prevail. ...

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Phys.org / Can we grow life on Mars? Experiments show potential in simulated extraterrestrial soil

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and worm-produced compost can significantly ...

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Medical Xpress / A potential broad coronavirus drug target: Blocking tRNA-modifying enzymes slows viral proteins

Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu ...

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Tech Xplore / Hybrid 'super foam' uses 3D-printed struts to absorb up to 10 times more energy

Aerospace engineering and materials science researchers at Texas A&M University and the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory have developed a "super foam" that can absorb up to 10 times more energy than conventional padding.

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Phys.org / 'Superconducting dome' hints at high-temperature superconductivity in thin nickelate films

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter characterized by an electrical resistance of zero and the expulsion of magnetic fields at low temperatures below a critical point. Superconductors, materials in which this state ...

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Phys.org / What's in your salad? Crops exposed to nanoplastics may boost heavy metal intake

Leafy vegetables like lettuce are readily available in grocery stores and often seen as a healthy food choice. As researchers work to understand how emerging contaminants behave in plants, new research is shedding light on ...

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Medical Xpress / Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration

Cedars-Sinai investigators working to optimize a cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa have uncovered how transplanted neural stem cells interact with host retinal cells to preserve vision. The findings, published ...

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Phys.org / Salt may have pushed us further into Snowball Earth 700 million years ago

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago. During a period geologists call Snowball Earth, ice sheets crept from the poles all the way to ...

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Phys.org / Saturday Citations: More bad news for US footballers; ancient Mayan water management; investigative LLMs

What we learned this week: Left-handed people may have a psychological edge in competition. Humanoid robots can now do creepy parkour through the uncanny valley. And if you've ever cared for an elderly cat, a new study highlights ...

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Phys.org / Study reveals new technique to identify individual night-flying birds for the first time

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of those birds for the first ...

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