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Jan 08 2025HEALTH

Health Insurance Under Biden: Nearly 24 Million Sign Up for Obamacare

Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans have seen a huge boost under President Joe Biden, with nearly 24 million people already signed up for 2025. This is almost twice the number from when Donald Trump was in office. The growth is due to bigger federal subsidies, better outreach, and an easier enrollment p

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Jan 08 2025HEALTH

How Daily Steps and Posture Vary Across Activity Levels

Imagine a bunch of people wearing tiny activity trackers on their thighs. Researchers studied these volunteers to see how their daily steps and postures changed depending on how active they were. They tracked 3547 people over seven days, classifying each day by the number of steps taken. Interestin

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Jan 08 2025HEALTH

Switching Foot Strikes: How It Shakes Up Your Run

You might think changing your foot strike while running is just about finding what feels right. But it turns out, it can also affect how much load your body takes. A study dove into this topic, observing how switching to a different foot strike impacts the load your body feels. Researchers had 27 yo

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Jan 08 2025HEALTH

Boosting Urine Output: A New Approach to Heart Failure Treatment

You know how important it is to get rid of excess fluids in heart failure? Well, did you know that many patients become resistant to standard diuretics? We're talking about a whopping 30% to 45% of patients! This is where lateral epidural stimulation (LES) comes in. Let's break it down. Imagine if

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Jan 08 2025FINANCE

Exploring the New Age of Bubble Dates: A Fresh Look at Stock Market Behavior

Imagine you're trying to pinpoint exactly when a stock market bubble bursts or recovers. This new study builds on an earlier model by adding a fourth stage, where the market goes through a unit root process after recovering. The key here is that this model helps us accurately estimate those critical

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Jan 08 2025SCIENCE

NASA's Next Mars Mission: A Waiting Game for Trump's Decision

NASA is planning to bring Martian rocks back to Earth, but they haven't finalized their plan yet. Instead, they're leaving the big decision up to the incoming President, Donald J. Trump. The mission, called Mars Sample Return, was initially estimated to cost up to $11 billion, but NASA has found way

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Jan 08 2025HEALTH

Robots in Lung Cancer: How They Help Doctors Check Your Lungs

Ever wondered how doctors check if a little spot on your lung is serious? One way they do it is by using robots! Lung cancer is a big problem, with lots of people dying from it each year. The tricky part is that many people don't feel sick when they first get it. So, doctors often find it by acciden

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Jan 08 2025EDUCATION

School Board Set to Vote on Major Improvement Projects

In Charleston County, the school district's finance committee recently met and backed a plan to revamp several schools. The committee voted to reallocate $14. 6 million from leftover funds of a one-cent sales tax program. This amount, part of a total $37. 4 million, will be used for five major proje

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Jan 07 2025CRIME

Meta's Smart Glasses: A Tool in a Tragic Attack

Imagine if your everyday sunglasses could record everything you see, translate languages, and search the web. That’s what Meta’s smart glasses promise. But these high-tech tools were recently used by a terrorist in New Orleans to plan and record an attack that killed 14 people. The FBI revealed that

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Jan 07 2025HEALTH

Finding CRC: A New Way to Diagnose Colon Cancer Symptoms

Did you know that colon cancer, also called colorectal cancer (CRC), is a big health issue in the UK? It's the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. So, how do we better diagnose it in people who have symptoms? A new model called COLOFIT has been created to help wi

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