In A Nutshell Researchers used a machine learning model to rank all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. by socioeconomic vulnerability to flu-like illness, finding wide regional variation in risk.

Introduction The Netherlands implemented a supermarket tobacco sales ban on 1 July 2024. This study aimed to evaluate ...

Risk maps for the cancer-causing gas radon can encourage people to test their homes for the substance, but only if homeowners live in known, higher-risk areas, new University of Oregon research finds.

Millions of NHS patient records have been analysed to create a comprehensive map of diseases linked to eczema. The linkage study found that, beyond well-established associations with other atopic ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common autoimmune disease where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the lining of its own joints, causing chronic pain, swelling, and stiffness. While there have ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

Just before winter break, news broke that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plans to close its centers for African, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Slavic, Eurasian ...

A minor, 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 6:54 a.m. Pacific time about 14 miles ...

Many Verizon mobile users experienced a major service disruption on Wednesday afternoon, with customers reporting that their phones suddenly went into SOS mode. Affected customers who want to check ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round—showing the Mediterranean to the East—but its inclusion set a ...

More than a decade after Uber and Lyft gave Bay Area passengers new choices for local transportation, a fresh rollout of robotaxi (and robotaxi-ish) services is here. Waymo is growing fast. Tesla has ...

The analysis also examines water use and offers a road map for lower emissions through states with considerable renewable resources. The U.S. data center boom could spike carbon emissions through the ...