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Enlarge / US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 1.1 million Samsung Slide-in Electric Ranges due to hundreds of reported fires. (credit: Samsung) After hundreds of reports of fires causing dozens of injuries and several pet deaths, Samsung…
Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.
There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes’ biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.
These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.
Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.
Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.
A recent study sheds light on how problematic pornography use may contribute to negative body image through the mechanism of social comparison. The study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, reveals that men who experience difficulties controlling their pornography…
Enlarge / Dodge doesn’t want to be accused of building a boring EV. (credit: Dodge) Electric motors have many advantages over internal combustion engines, including the fact that they don’t waste a lot of their power as sound energy. So…
Enlarge (credit: Ole_CNX via Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI released the “system card” for ChatGPT’s new GPT-4o AI model that details model limitations and safety testing procedures. Among other examples, the document reveals that in rare occurrences during testing, the…
Enlarge / Jessica Watkins gets to work on the ISS (credit: NASA) “Archeology really is a perspective on material culture we use as evidence to understand how humans adapt to their environment, to the situations they are in, and to…
