According to the National Highway Transportation Authority, an average of 38 children die each year because someone drove off and left them in a car in the sun. That’s one child every nine days. In almost all cases, their adult was stressed and balancing a number of issues. They put the baby in the car …
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Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures in human evolution, selecting genetic variants that increase resistance to infection. In the face of a pandemic, disease resistance undergoes strong positive selection which probably affects the genetic make-up of the population thereafter. The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, remains the most devastating pandemic …
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An MIT study reveals that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not reveal anything fundamental about how black holes form. Pictured is a simulation of light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Clues to a …
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Summary: People with selected variants of the ERAP2 and TICAM2 genes were 40% more likely to survive the Black Death, the researchers found. However, in modern humans, those with the ERAP2 gene are more likely to suffer from autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease. Source: University of Illinois Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective …
Long-term light curve of J150052 from 2008. Credit: Cao et al, 2022 Using NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers from Radboud University in the Netherlands and elsewhere made X-ray observations of a tidal disturbance event designated 3XMM J150052.0+015452, or J150052 for short. The results show that J150052 was triggered by a rapidly rotating …
Astronomers have located the closest stellar-mass black hole to Earth ever discovered. Because this black hole doesn’t feed on matter or emit radiation, making it virtually invisible, scientists had to take a different approach to finding it. A star orbiting the black hole exhibited a “wobble,” which helped them locate the black hole-star binary system …
Share on PinterestExperts say black men should be screened regularly for prostate cancer. Ljuba Photo/Getty Images Researchers say family history and genetics are among the risk factors for prostate cancer in black men. Experts say the findings underscore the need for black men to get screened regularly for prostate cancer. They note that prostate cancer …
Post-adjustment timing residual of 11 years of timing for PSR J1544+4937 using GMRT and GBT observations. Credit: Kumari et al, 2022 Indian astronomers have carried out long-term radio observations of a “black widow” millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1544+4937. The results of the observation campaign, published November 25 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more …
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Post-adjustment timing residual of 11 years of timing for PSR J1544+4937 using GMRT and GBT observations. Credit: Kumari et al, 2022 Indian astronomers have carried out long-term radio observations of a “black widow” millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1544+4937. The results of the observation campaign, published November 25 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more …
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Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes at the heart of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has detected around 85 pairs of colliding black holes. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational waves are generated by these systems as they wind around each other, warping spacetime …
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