A recently discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, sparked the first-ever global alert from the International Asteroid Warning Network after it showed a small but real chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Finnish astronomers and an international team jumped…
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Sparks Global Alert – Now It Might Hit the Moon Instead
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European study reveals stabilization patterns in antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to a study published April 3, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Sonja Lehtinen from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues.
Antibiotic…
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Jumbo phages utilize EPI vesicles to evade bacterial immune response
In a growing global trend, bacteria have evolved new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections. The rising antibiotic resistance crisis poses a significant public health threat in hospitals and other…
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Enhanced tuberculosis detection in advanced HIV using stool molecular testing
The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an additional test for diagnosing tuberculosis in adults living with HIV. This is the main conclusion…
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I just learned how my wife supported herself in college. It’s changed everything I knew about her.
How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous!
My wife “Halley” and I have been married for a little over four years and we have a 1-year-old child. Last…
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First-Ever Astronauts to Fly Over Antarctica Startled by What They See Below
After becoming the first humans to fly over the Earth’s poles in space, a crew of private astronauts — or space tourists, depending on your perspective — report that the world’s southernmost continent is indeed a vast expanse of snow and…
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NASA says asteroid 2024 YR4 size of a 10-story building; increases chances of moon impact – upi.com
- NASA says asteroid 2024 YR4 size of a 10-story building; increases chances of moon impact upi.com
- NASA catches a glimpse of ‘city-killer’ asteroid before it disappears until 2028 ABC News
- Rising Odds Asteroid That Briefly Threatened Earth Will…
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North America Is Dripping Into Earth’s Mantle And An Ancient Victim Is Probably To Blame
Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far beneath researchers’ feet.
Earth’s continents have regions of very old and stable rocks, known as cratons, surrounded…
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Ancient Bacteria Were Breathing Long Before Oxygen Became Abundant
Today, oxygen makes up about 21% of our atmosphere, but it wasn’t always so plentiful. Around 2.7 billion years ago, cyanobacteria—aquatic bacteria that generate energy through…
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Proxima Centauri’s Violent Flares May Endanger Life on Nearby Planets
Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that could significantly alter or strip the atmospheres of its habitable-zone planets. Located just over four light-years away,…
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