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The Astros received a terrible injury update on Yordan Alvarez this week, the sole silver lining of which is that fellow slugger Jose Abreu has excelled in Alvarez’s absence.The town of Houston ain’t big enough for two Cuban sluggers. Jose…

As the Arctic’s ice-bound ground warms, hazardous compounds may be released across the region, as per reports. Researchers on March 28 wrote in Nature Communications that by the end of the century, the thaw threatens to destabilise…

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New UCLA research in mice suggests that "dormant" cone photoreceptors in the degenerating retina are not dormant at all, but continue to function, producing responses to light and driving retinal activity for vision. The cells in the retina…

An abandoned factory 'undoubtedly' contains traces of mad cow disease that risks infecting people, a scientist has warned. Thruxted Mill, between Ashford and Cantebury, was one of five sites in the UK where cows with the fatal brain disease…

Hospitals have strict hygiene and sanitation protocols to protect patients from bacteria that rarely sicken healthy people but can be deadly for vulnerable patients already hospitalized with serious illnesses. Nearly 100,000 people die…

After centuries of inactivity, a volcano in the Alaskan panhandle has awakened from dormancy. Scientists have traced a swarm of minor earthquakes around Sitka, Alaska, in 2020 to magma activity below Mount Edgecumbe (L'úx Shaa), around 450…

Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its…

The advent of small-molecule targeted therapies, a decade ago, revolutionized the treatment of metastatic melanoma, provided that the tumors carry the mutations to respond to these treatments. However, despite a remarkable initial response…

Alzheimer's disease can begin almost imperceptibly, often masquerading in the early months or years as forgetfulness that is common in older age. What causes the disease remains largely a mystery. But researchers at Tufts University and the…