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Medical Xpress / Rising temperatures linked to shorter, poorer sleep for US adults

Higher nighttime temperatures are linked to shorter sleep times and lower sleep quality, especially for people with chronic health conditions, lower socioeconomic status, or those living on the West Coast, according to a ...

14 hours ago in Health
Phys.org / Subnational income inequality revealed: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report card by the G20, income ...

20 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover the earliest stages of human placenta formation

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with what it needs to thrive during gestation.

15 hours ago in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Volcanic eruptions may have brought Black Death to Europe

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new research has revealed.

Phys.org / Astrobee: AI-guided robot navigates space station corridors with improved speed and safety

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions.

19 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Social justice must guide global ecosystem restoration for lasting success, say researchers

Social justice must be at the heart of global restoration initiatives—and not "superficial" or "tokenistic"—if ecosystem degradation is to be addressed effectively, according to new research.

20 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Programmable CRISPR platform can reduce stem cell differentiation from months to weeks

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in Science Advances detailing the company's CRISPR-based Cellgorithm technology, which lays the groundwork ...

11 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.

10 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Spain not ruling out lab leak as cause of swine fever outbreak

Spain's government said Friday it had not ruled out an accidental laboratory leak as the cause of an outbreak of African swine fever that has rocked the country's lucrative pork industry.

10 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion

Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind "Harry Potter" and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal that would bring together two of the biggest players in television and film and potentially ...

10 hours ago in Business
Medical Xpress / CDC panel votes to no longer recommend hepatitis B shot for newborns

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to change a long-standing recommendation that all newborns in the United States receive the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they are born.

11 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Ultrafast, highly reversible sodium storage in engineered hard carbon achieved

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has demonstrated ultrafast and highly reversible all-slope sodium storage using specially engineered hard carbon anodes.

12 hours ago in Nanotechnology