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New study highlights AI’s potential to help doctors detect congenital heart defects
In a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers will unveil findings that suggest that AI can help ...
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Community racial and ethnic representation among physicians in US internal medicine residency programs
In this cross-sectional study, underrepresented in medicine internal medicine residents remained underrepresented compared with their program’s county populations. These findings should inform racial ...
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New study finds high concentrations of plastics in the placentae of infants born prematurely
In a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers will unveil findings that suggest that microplastics and ...
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New national study finds homicide and suicide is the #1 cause of maternal death in the U.S.
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers will unveil findings that suggest that nationwide more pregnant ...
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A Tethered Miniature Lightsail to Measure the Force Exerted By a Laser Beam (IMAGE)
The ultimate goal of the lightsail project is to drive a freely accelerating lightsail that is 10 square meters in area and 100 nm or less in thickness. In this first experimental step, the Caltech ...
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A Tethered Miniature Lightsail (IMAGE)
A microscope image of the Caltech team's "miniature trampoline," a tiny lightsail tethered at the corners for direct radiation pressure measurement.
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Caltech Researchers Take First Experimental Steps Toward Lightsails that Could Reach Distant Star Systems (IMAGE)
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...
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250131-Ushimaru-Burning-Burning (IMAGE)
It has been unclear which soils are better candidates for being managed by prescribed burning in terms of allowing a high diversity of endangered plants or plant species in general. To settle this ...
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Researcher Lindsay Waldrop with her dog (IMAGE)
Researcher Lindsay Waldrop with her dog. Findings challenge traditional assumptions of performance specialization resulting from selective breeding ...
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Umucu APA Award_01 (IMAGE)
Health sciences researcher Emre Umucu, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research at The University of Texas at El Paso, has been awarded the Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research ...
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University of Calgary scientist Dan Shugar (IMAGE)
Dan Shugar, an associate professor with the Department of Earth, Energy and Environment in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, says it’s important to analyse what happened in the ...
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Today's descendants of the first domestic sheep of Central Anatolia. (IMAGE)
Today's descendants of the first domestic sheep of Central Anatolia.