Month: October 2024
There is a correlation between diet and health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice
A 7-day metabolic cage run at around 16, 62 and 114 weeks of age was used to monitor activity, feeding, and respiration of individually housed mice. These assessments included a seven-day metabolic cage run at around 16, 62 and 114 weeks of age; flow analysis at 24, 71 and 122 weeks; T cell subsets were mostly assigned as naive and non-naive by the presence of CD62L and CD44.
Read MoreFlorida hospitals and nursing homes are bracing for a storm
Florida’s emergency officials said that nearly 600 vehicles including buses, ambulances, and vans have been deployed to move patients to safety ahead of the landfall of Hurricane Milton. “Once the patient transfers are complete, the hospitals will be temporarily closed and will reopen when it is safe to do so following the storm,” the health care system said.
Read MoreYou need to know if hurricanes are getting worse
Hurricane Milton is likely to hit the US’ west coast as early as Wednesday afternoon, with tropical storm conditions beginning later in the day, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday. It will be the fifth hurricane this year to make landfall in the US. In 2012, only two hurricanes were Category 1 when they hit the US.
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Biden sets 10-year deadlines for the replacement of lead pipes in the U.S
US Vice President Joe Biden has announced that the country’s cities will be required to replace lead pipes in drinking water by the end of the next decade. The new rule will require water systems to ensure that lead concentrations don’t exceed an action level of 10 parts per billion, down from 15 parts per billion under the current standard.
Read MoreAs it goes towards Florida, it reaches Category 3 strength
Florida on Tuesday issued a mandatory evacuation order for its west coast as Hurricane Michael approaches the state. “We are very concerned about the possibility of a major and potentially life-threatening storm surge and very damaging winds,” the state’s Governor Ron DeSantis said. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said that Michael is expected to make landfall on Florida’s west coast on Tuesday.
Read MoreAs it barrels towards Florida, Hurricane Milton poses an extremely serious threat
Tropical Cyclone Milton is expected to make landfall off western coast of Florida late Wednesday or Thursday. According to the US National Hurricane Center, Milton has seen a sharp increase in winds over the last 24 hours. The coast of the Yucatan Peninsula is under a hurricane warning, while hurricane watches, storm surge watches and tropical storm watches are in effect for parts of the Florida Peninsula.
Read MoreIt is more political online than it is on the ground
Amid Harvey’s aftermath, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that governments are preventing private citizens from offering help to people in need. This comes after reports claimed that FEMA abandoned the village of Rockton, North Carolina so that the Biden administration could mine lithium there. The US has provided more than $137 million in relief assistance to six states, including 7,000 federal personnel.
Read MoreThe dockworkers have suspended the strike
Three former US police officers were acquitted on Tuesday of charges that they used excessive force against Tyre Nichols, a black man, during a 2016 traffic stop in Memphis. Nichols was shot nine times by the officers after he ran from them during the traffic stop. An internal investigation had found that Officers used excessive force against Nichols.
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Citizen science can be used to increase the amount of big-data projects
Researchers have published the most complete wiring diagram of the fruit fly’s brain, which includes more than 145,000 nerve cells and over 50 million connections. “It could be used for larger connectome projects that the BRAIN Initiative is funding,” John Ngai, director of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative at US National Institutes of Health, said.
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The largest brain map ever shows fruit flies’s brain activity in detail
A team of international researchers has shared data on the structure of brain neurons in a FlyWire fly species, which had almost twice as many neurons as the fly used in the hemibrain-mapping project. They said the fly had almost twice the neurons in a brain structure called the mushroom body compared with the fly used in the hemibrain-mapping project.
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