Roughly 7% of women of reproductive age in the US have attempted to induce their own abortions outside the formal healthcare system, a new study has found, up from 5% before Roe v Wade fell in 2022. The study, published on Tuesday in the Jama medical journal, determined how many people reported ever “self-managing” their … Read more
Heatmap illustrating the pairwise correlations among 37 photosynthesis-related traits, with clustered traits showing interrelatedness. Credit: Fruit Research (2024). DOI: 10.48130/frures-0024-0013 A research team investigated 71 citrus accessions and varieties using over 56,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 37 leaf reflectance parameters to study photosynthesis-related traits. They identified four distinct clusters of interrelated traits and found … Read more
The new minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, says she wants to lead a more “honourable discourse” about matters affecting the lives of First Nations people. On day two of her role, the Yanyuwa Garrwa woman spoke to Guardian Australia about one of her priorities: seeking to work collegially with all sides of politics … Read more
The overall structure of Cps3D. Credit: Nature Chemical Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01664-8 Bacteria have different strategies for protecting themselves. Some bacterial pathogens surround themselves with a shell made of many sugar chains that lie close together, also known as capsular polymers. This protects the bacteria from drying out and physical stress. In addition, the capsule … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden’s call on Monday to fundamentally abolish the Supreme Court’s independence, destroying its status as a separate branch of government shielded from political pressure, with specific features that are so clearly unconstitutional they could only be done by changing the Constitution itself. And conservative leaders … Read more
High optical quality Ce-doped Y2O3 transparent ceramics were fabricated. The introduction of Ce shifted the UV cutoff edge of Y2O3 transparent ceramics from 250 to 375 nm, which was attributed to the visible band absorption of Ce4+. This shift grants UV shielding capabilities to Y2O3 transparent ceramics. UV shielding capabilities of 5% samples against 254 … Read more
Dìdi, the feature debut from writer-director Sean Wang and one of the best new films of the year, risks cliche from the jump by zooming in on a literal calendar on the wall. The movie begins almost exactly 16 years ago, on 29 July 2008, and ends a few weeks later. Fourteen-year-old Chris Wang (Izaac … Read more
Recriminations between local law enforcement and Secret Service agents over who is to blame for former President Donald Trump getting shot and almost killed are flying back and forth, some publicly and some behind-the-scenes, as investigations into what happened get underway. Local law enforcement snipers on the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU), the county’s … Read more
Researchers measured the relative harm of criminal offenses committed by a subset of 1,103 particularly deviant police officers. Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Not all police misconduct is the same. Misconduct can range from offenses like homicide and sexual assault to seemingly minor infractions such as accepting free coffee from the public. Exactly what … Read more
I used to keep a plastic bag of plastic bags under my kitchen sink. Like the water in the pipes above, around which they accumulated, it seemed I had bags in unlimited supply. A few years ago, when my city enacted a plastic bag ban, the collection started waning. Now, I treasure the once ubiquitous … Read more