The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been tasked with guiding US agencies to develop new scientific-integrity policies.Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order late last week mandating…
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Flipped and traditional classrooms in ophthalmology: an evaluation of the impact of a crossover study
FC promotes higher order levels of learning in the classroom while this is achieved after the class in traditional lecture-based learning [10]. Meta-analysis has shown that FC (including pre-session quizzes) in medical education has grown rapidly…
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scientists get cited less after switching fields, analysis finds
Taking a risk by opening the door to a new research field can have negative consequences for scientists, at least in the short term, a study shows.Credit: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty
Shifting to a different research field can have negative…
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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system.
The brain also contains billions of…
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Why after 2000 years we still don’t know how tickling works
How come you can’t tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientist Konstantina Kilteni from the Donders Institute argues in a scientific article published on 23 May that…
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When disruption endures | Nature Computational Science
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The Healthy Diet Basket is a valid global standard that highlights lack of access to healthy and sustainable diets
In this study, we calculated the cost and nutritional and environmental outcomes of a healthy diet by following a structured methodology using multiple dietary guidelines and national food price data. We began by identifying the specific…
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AI solutions to the radiology workforce shortage
Bender, C. E., Bansal, S., Wolfman, D. & Parikh, J. R. 2019 ACR commission on human resources workforce survey. J. Am. Coll. Radiol. 17, 673–675 (2020).
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Unveiling the drivers of bank profitability: insights from Ethiopian banks
Abbas F, Iqbal S, Aziz B (2019) The impact of bank capital, bank liquidity and credit risk on profitability in postcrisis period: a comparative study of US and Asia. Cogent Econ Financ 7(1):1605683
Abbas Z, Afshan G, Mustifa G (2022) The effect of…
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Temperature-induced microstructural evolution and fractal characteristics of high-enthalpy Chumathang granite for enhanced geothermal energy
Mineral composition of granite
The mineral composition, as well as major oxide and trace element concentrations, were determined using a combination of XRD and XRF respectively. The XRD plots of 5 different batches of granites at different…
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