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Feb 12 2025WEATHER

Frosty Frenzy: Snow and Cold Sweep Across America

Cold weather is taking over many parts of the United States. Schools and roads are shut down due to heavy snow and freezing conditions. More than 99 million people are affected by weather alerts. The Northeast, Great Plains, and Midwest are affected the most. The capital city, Washington D. C. ,

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Feb 12 2025BUSINESS

Unpaid Bills and Job Losses: How the Trump Administration's Actions Affect US Businesses

The abrupt halt to the U. S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) operations has left both large and small businesses in the United States facing a serious cash crunch. The freeze on foreign aid has left critical contracts incomplete and unpaid. This halt has led to massive job cuts, wit

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Wake Up to Tralokinumab: Your Secret Weapon

Did you know there's a new player in town for managing atopic dermatitis (AD)? Tralokinumab is a medicine that works by targeting a key inflammatory pathway. Now, the big question was how well it works on different parts of the body. A group of 129 patients with moderate-to-severe

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Uncovering the Power of Therapist Responses

Psychotherapy is a complex dance between the patient and the therapist. One key move in this dance is how the therapist responds to the patient. Two common types of responses are therapist self-disclosure (TSD) and therapist self-involving (TSI) interventions. TSD involves the therapist sharing

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Time Twist: How Our Minds Play Games with Time

Intuition is common in our experience. It is our internal gut feeling about things and has a massive role in our impulses. But it seems that intuition is connected to how we perceive time. Or rather, how we mess up our perception of time. You see, when we feel happy, sad, or meh, our brains can mak

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Weight Loss Shots: A Growing Concern for Eye Health

A growing number of people have been reporting severe eye issues after using popular weight loss injections Ozempic and Mounjaro. These drugs, known for their effectiveness in helping people shed pounds, have now been linked to conditions like nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy or NAION

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Does Pain Hurt More Than We Think?

Pain is something that everyone knows about and has felt before. It's a part of life, like a warning after a burn or a cut. But, what if pain did more than just warn us? Could pain lead to something more serious? Could it even be deadly? Researchers looked into this and found that pain might be a b

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Feb 11 2025SCIENCE

Savings and Sensitivity: A New Way to Track Proteins

Scientists are always looking for better ways to study proteins. One common method is using a His-tag, a small piece of protein that helps scientists grab and study their target protein. Usually, scientists use antibodies to find and study these His-tagged proteins, but this can be really expensive.

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Feb 11 2025TECHNOLOGY

The Power of Tiny Open Spaces In Lithium Batteries

An interesting thing about lithium-ion batteries is how tiny oxygen holes can boost power. Imagine something really small—that's an oxygen vacancy. These vacancies are missing oxygen atoms in a material. When researchers looked closely at a material called Cu2Nb34O87-x/N-doped carbon composite, they

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Feb 11 2025SCIENCE

The Secret Life of Baby Sturgeons: How Warmth Shapes Their Behavior

Baby white sturgeons, known as larvae, are facing new challenges in a warming world, and recent studies have shown that the temperature while they're developing can change how they act later in life. These sturgeons live in big rivers and estuaries along the Pacific coast of North America, and

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