Life
Your Fitness Tracker Has No Idea How Many Calories You’re Burning
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Life
Why a Test Can’t Tell You Your ‘Biological Age’
It's not enough to live forever—everybody wants to stay young forever, too. In most wellness spaces, "youth" is a word that gets thrown...
Space
Risks of Decompression Sickness and Venous Thromboembolism during Spaceflight and Patent Foramen Ovale Implications – NASA
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The purpose of this working group was to assemble a panel of experts to review the most recent data related to extravehicular activity (EVA) prebreathe testing and decompression sickness (DCS) events, venous thromboembolism (VTE) in-flight occurrences, and patent foramen...
Life
Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research
Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras...
Space
3I/ATLAS Has An Extreme Taste For Heavy Water
More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the most powerful observatories...
Environment
EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs
The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.It says the changes will make electricity cheaper for Americans. What consumers pay will depend partly on the...
Science
Spain battles climate change on several fronts
The most dramatic and tragic natural phenomenon Spain has seen in recent years were flash floods that killed 237 people in the east of the country in October 2024, centred on the Valencia region.Spanish meteorological research group Climatoc-Lab described...
Life
Martha’s Rule rolled out across all A&E departments in England
Prof Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety at NHS England, said the expansion of Martha's Rule would give families and NHS staff "a critical new lifeline" to help improve care and save more lives.Staff can themselves ask for...
Life
Five Hacks Every Garmin Fenix 9 Pro User Should Know
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Life
Invitation for men to ‘experience hot flushes’ at Hull event
Partners of women going through the menopause are being invited to experience one of the symptoms at a forthcoming support event.At the Menopaus'ull Support Network event in Hull next month, health group Over The Bloody Moon will be taking...
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Maricarmen: Eviction of woman aged 87 highlights Spain’s housing shortage
The dramatic eviction of an 87-year-old woman from the home in Madrid where she lived for seven decades has...