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Medical Xpress / FDA approves once-daily Idvynso tablet for treating HIV

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck's Idvynso (doravirine/islatravir), a new, once-daily, two-drug single tablet for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults to replace the current antiretroviral regimen ...

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Phys.org / 5th-century Belgian burial with 'scrap metal' may reveal missing link between Roman and Merovingian monetary systems

A study published in the journal Britannia analyzed coins and metal items found in an early 5th-century AD burial in Oudenburg, Belgium. The burial occurred around the same time that base metal coins ceased arriving in northwestern ...

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Phys.org / A leading journal finds that AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work

Artificial intelligence can undoubtedly help scientists with their academic papers by summarizing research and helping to improve writing. However, one downside is that it has led to a wave of poorly written submissions and ...

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Science X / A skin-deep secret—why a fingertip on the palm can be felt as vibration elsewhere

It is not unusual to feel vibrations at another spot on your hand when pressing your fingertip against your palm. It is how the body interprets reality. Your skin interprets and redistributes touch stimuli unexpectedly, serving ...

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Phys.org / NASA Laser Terminal enhances views during Artemis II mission

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission's 10-day journey around the moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space ...

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Medical Xpress / Dietary fats shape pancreatic cancer risk via ferroptosis

For decades, the relationship between fat and cancer has been treated as a question of quantity: Eat less fat, reduce your risk of developing cancer. But new research published April 29 in Cancer Discovery shows that for ...

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Phys.org / DESI-HVS1 is an old hypervelocity star ejected from the galactic center, observations suggest

Chinese astronomers report the discovery of DESI-HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic center origin. The finding, based on the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and ESA's ...

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Science X / The paradox of plenty: How Europe's first farmers grew more people, not taller ones

The first farmers of Europe experienced a significant rise in population, something which impacted their height at the same time. About 8,500 years ago, the adoption of farming led to the surprising result of more babies ...

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Phys.org / Explosive evaporation unlocks new possibilities in 3D printing and chemical analysis

Water droplets might seem simple at first. But when nearing evaporation, a desperate power struggle of competing physical forces can emerge, with explosive effects. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publication, ...

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Phys.org / Dinosaurs may have originated 10 million years earlier than fossils show

Dinosaurs are among the most majestic and iconic animals to have ever walked on our planet. While they are now extinct, they are estimated to have inhabited Earth for over 165 million years.

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Phys.org / Physicists achieve first-ever 'quadsqueezing' quantum interaction

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion. By creating and controlling increasingly complex forms of "squeezing" – including a fourth-order effect ...

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Phys.org / A better way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes Benjamin Zuckerman, ...

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