Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
A new flu strain that has been dominating cold and flu season overseas is on the rise in the United States. The mutated strain, known as subclade K, originates from the most common flu-causing virus, ...
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of anomaly detection using k-means data clustering, implemented with JavaScript. Compared to other anomaly detection techniques, ...
Oftentimes, vitamin C (for your immune system) and vitamin B (for nerve health and energy) get the attention. But a dietitian says vitamin K, specifically vitamin K2, may be worth adding to your ...
US retail sales on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, climbed 4.1% compared with last year, according to data released Saturday by Mastercard SpendingPulse. Online shoppers alone ...
On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...
It’s an emerging economic narrative that we’ve been talking about for a while now: Upper-income consumers are going out and spending money, while lower-income consumers are pulling back. In other ...
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women. In Pennsylvania where more than 13,000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer last year. A law enacted in 2023 requires insurers to cover ...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. TikTok’s algorithm, which shapes what more than a billion users see, has developed an almost mystical reputation for ...
Just as Halloween rolls around, along comes Triumph Over Evil: Battle of the Exorcists as a countermeasure. When so many people are focused on the ghoulish part of Halloween, this film about exorcism ...
For some single women in their 30s and 40s, the desire to have babies adds unwelcome stress to the already fraught process of finding a mate. By Catherine Pearson In the past, Kelly Shara, 31, often ...