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Jan 11 2025WEATHER

Flight Chaos: Storms and Engine Trouble Disrupt U. S. Travel

A massive winter storm caused over 3, 000 flight cancellations across the Southern U. S. on Friday, with an additional 3, 000 flights delayed. The storm wasn't the only issue; a Delta Air Lines plane had to be evacuated using emergency slides at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport due

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Jan 11 2025SCIENCE

Boosting Antibody Modeling with Transfer Learning

Protein language models, or PLMs, have been quite successful in understanding proteins. However, they struggle with antibodies, especially their hypervariable regions, which don't follow the usual evolutionary rules. Researchers have come up with a new method called Antibody Mutagenesis-Augmented Pr

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Jan 11 2025SCIENCE

Banishing Ghosts in MRI: A Clever Trick with Dual-polarity Readout

You know how ghosts can show up in your MRI scans, making it hard to see what's really going on? This happens due to something called Nyquist ghosting. A clever trick called dual-polarity readout can fix this, but it usually takes twice as long. Researchers have found a way to make this trick work f

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Jan 11 2025HEALTH

Handling Mass Casualty Events: What We Know and Can Do

Imagine you're at a crowded concert and a tragic event happens, causing many injuries at once. This situation is what we call a mass casualty incident (MCI). A group of experts recently looked at all the evidence and got together to figure out the best ways to handle these events. They did this as p

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Jan 11 2025CELEBRITIES

Hollywood Stars Face Loss in LA Wildfires

The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have left a trail of destruction, with many Hollywood stars losing their homes or facing significant damage. One of the affected stars is Milo Ventimiglia, known for his role in "This Is Us. " His home in Pacific Palisades was reduced to ashes, including a newly i

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Jan 11 2025CELEBRITIES

Famous Family Flee in Face of LA Wildfires

The Kardashian-Jenner clan was among the many affected by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. The family, including Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, Kylie, Rob, and Kris, had to leave their homes in Calabasas and Hidden Hills after a fire named the Kenneth Fire started on Thursday. They received mand

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Jan 11 2025WEATHER

A Winter Surprise Hits the South

A massive winter storm took a slow journey from Texas and Oklahoma, heading eastward into the Southern states. This storm brought heavy snow and icy roads, causing governors to declare states of emergency and schools to close. Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders even called in the National Guard to help

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Jan 11 2025HEALTH

Caring for Dementia: The Hidden Heroes in the LGBTQIA+ Community

Did you know that over 6 million people in the U. S. live with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia? Their care is often provided by family members or friends, known as informal caregivers. These caregivers offer more than $270 billion annually without any pay. But here’s a problem: studi

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Jan 11 2025ENVIRONMENT

Laborers Keep Going Despite California Fire

An immense cloud of smoke darkened the sky and turned Santa Monica into an eerie orange hue. Yet, landscapers kept trimming, builders kept constructing, and delivery drivers kept on their routes. It was just another day for the hired hands. Adrian Rodriguez, a landscaper from Querétaro, Mexico, expl

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Jan 11 2025ENVIRONMENT

Clean Cooking Fuels: A Boost for Income and Equality in China

Imagine you're living in China and your family switches from traditional cooking methods to cleaner fuels. What happens? Well, a lot! A study shows that a small increase in using clean cooking fuels can boost a country's total household income by billions. In China, this means an extra $37 billion a

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