Being overweight substantially increases the risk of developing uterine cancer, research suggests.
If a 1.65-metre (5-foot-5) woman is 12.7 kilograms (28 pounds) above a healthy weight, her risk is nearly doubled, for example, the BBC reports.
The Cancer Research UK (CRUK)-funded research involved 120,000 women in the U.K., U.S. and five other countries. The organization says keeping a healthy weight can cut the risk of 13 cancers. Genes and hormones may be other risk factors.
One theory holds...
Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button – no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand.
That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent advancement in 3D-printing technology led by engineers at CU Boulder. In a new study, the team lays out a strategy for using currently available printers to create materials that meld solid and liquid...
A U.S. federal judge today struck down the COVID-19 mask mandate for public transportation imposed by the administration of President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida said the mask mandate exceeds the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reports Medical Xpress.
The mandate requiring face masks on airplanes, the subway, trains, buses, taxis, and other forms of public transportation was recently extended by...
Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk's takeover attempt with a "poison pill" —a financial device that companies have been wielding against unwelcome suitors for decades.
The ingredients of each poison pill vary, but they are all designed to give corporate boards an option to flood the market with so much newly created stock that a takeover becomes prohibitively expensive, Tech Xplore reports. The strategy was popularized back in the 1980s when publicly held companies were being...
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, ending China's longest crewed mission as it continues its quest to become a major space power, Phys.org reports.
The Shenzhou-13 spacecraft was the latest mission in Beijing's drive to rival the United States, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon.
Live footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed the capsule landing in a cloud of dust, with ground crew...
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's National Deuteration Facility has provided deuterated cholesterol for international research to gain a better understanding of how the Spike protein of the COVID virus, SARS-Co-V-2, infects human cells through a membrane fusion mechanism.
In deuterated compounds, hydrogen has been replaced by deuterium. Deuterated cholesterol can be used as a molecular probe to determine the stacking order of membrane layers and to determine how cholesterol is partitioned on the membrane.
Researchers from the Institut...
People may be willing to condone statements they know to be false and even spread misinformation on social media if they believe those statements could become true in the future, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Whether the situation involves a politician making a controversial statement, a business stretching the truth in an advertisement, or a job seeker lying about their professional skills on a resume, people who consider how a lie...
Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to "unlock" the social media platform's "extraordinary potential".
Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40 billion, the BBC reports.
It recently emerged that Musk was Twitter's biggest shareholder after he built up a large stake in the firm.
He said that if his offer is not accepted: "I would need to reconsider my position...
Human organ transplants offer a crucial lifeline to people with serious illnesses, but there are too few organs to go around. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 112,000 people awaiting transplants.
The promise of 3D printing organs is one possible solution to address this shortage, but has been fraught with complexity and technical barriers, limiting the type of organs that can be printed. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are now pushing through these...
Last month, controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI announced it had given its technology to the Ukrainian government.
The BBC has been given evidence of how it is being used – in more than 1,000 cases – to identify both the living and the dead.
A man lies motionless on the floor, his head tilted down. His body is naked, apart from a pair of Calvin Klein boxers. His eyes are ringed with what look like...
