Empathy is crucial in healthcare, helping professionals connect with and ease the emotional pain of patients. Yet, postgraduate medical training often overlooks this vital skill. A new study wants to find out why this is and how necessary it is to teach empathy to trainee doctors. Researchers talked
Dengue fever, a common tropical disease spread by mosquitoes, is heavily influenced by environmental factors like rain, heat, and city growth. This interesting study takes a deeper look at how small climates, plant life, and where Aedes mosquitoes live impact dengue outbreaks in areas with lots of c
Imagine you're in the dentist's chair getting root canal therapy. Suddenly, your dentist encounters a problem: an instrument breaks off inside your tooth. Yikes! This isn't uncommon, but it sure complicates things. Cleaning and shaping the root canal system becomes tricky. The dentist now needs to r
Imagine you're trying to create a coating that protects plastic from both water and unwanted reflections. That's what this study did! They developed a clever two-step process to give poly(methyl methacrylate), or PMMA, a tough, water-resistant, and highly transparent finish. First, they made a spec
Football players often get injured without any contact. Most studies look back at these injuries and focus on GPS data. But injuries happen because of many reasons, not just one. This study used machine learning to predict these injuries. It looked at GPS data and other player details from a Portugu
It's been quite some time since Meghan Markle was last seen on Instagram. She made a surprising comeback on January 1st, with a new handle, @meghan. In a short video, she's jogging along a beach, writing "2025" in the sand, and flashing a smile. Her return comes after a break that lasted over seven
President-elect Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have pointed fingers at President Joe Biden's border policies following the tragic New Orleans truck attack. However, the truth is that the attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is a U. S. citizen and an Army veteran. Initially, Fox News wro
In 2018, an orca named Tahlequah, part of the critically endangered southern resident killer whales, made headlines for carrying her dead calf for 17 days. Recently, she's been spotted doing the same with a newborn that has passed away. Scientists believe this behavior shows her grief. Orcas, like
2025 promises to be a thrilling year for space exploration. Several countries and companies have big plans. Let's dive in! First stop: the moon. NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program is backing three private missions. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience lander and Tena
Ever wonder what happened to Fossil’s Wear OS smartwatches? Well, the last one just vanished! Fossil, once a big player in Google’s Wear OS, announced they were done with smartwatches about a year ago. And now, the final Fossil smartwatch on the market, the Citizen CZ Smart Gen 2, has disappeared. F
