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Pink October at LAU-Rizk: Breaking the Silence on Breast Cancer
Pink October at LAU-Rizk: Breaking the Silence on Breast Cancer

The film avoids slogans and the “campaign” aesthetic to favor narration at the level of everyday life. One perceives what the illness upsets — confidence, self-image, intimacy — and what speech can repair. The room reacts: a few nervous laughs when self-mockery defuses embarrassment, longer silences over the metamorphoses of the body and ...

Climate and Poverty: UN Warns of a Double Burden for 900 Million People
Climate and Poverty: UN Warns of a Double Burden for 900 Million People

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a "double and deeply unequal burden," the United Nations warned Friday. "No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air ...

SCUBE3: The Molecule That Promises to Awaken Sleeping Hair
SpotlightSCUBE3: The Molecule That Promises to Awaken Sleeping Hair

A California laboratory at the University of Irvine is revolutionizing dermatology. In 2022, Professor Maksim Plikus’s team isolated a molecule called SCUBE3, short for Signal peptide, CUB domain, EGF-like 3. Naturally produced by the dermal papilla, a tiny cluster of cells at the base of each hair follicle, this molecular messenger has a ...

Rare Earths: Strategic Metals Key to Future Tech
Q&ARare Earths: Strategic Metals Key to Future Tech

Rare earths are minerals used to make magnets crucial to the auto, electronic and defense industries, as well as in renewable energy. The US Treasury Secretary slammed export curbs imposed by Beijing last week on technologies used for rare-earth mining, smelting, and other processing steps. Scott Bessent said on Thursday it was "China versus the ...

Doomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome
ExplainerDoomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome

Doomscrolling is a neologism that combines the darkness of “doom,” meaning fate, calamity, or collapse, with the act of “scrolling,” the finger’s movement that steadily moves through a page’s content. It has now earned a place in English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines to doomscroll as “spending an excessive amount of time ...

Australian Moths Use Stars as Compass
SpotlightAustralian Moths Use Stars as Compass

Each spring, in the silence of Australian night, billions of Bogong moths take flight on an extraordinary journey. They travel hundreds of kilometers from their native lands in southeastern Australia to the icy caves of Australian Alps, where they cluster by thousands to spend summer in a protective torpor known as aestivation. In autumn, they ...

Bottled Water: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa at the Tap of Fear
SpotlightBottled Water: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa at the Tap of Fear

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found almost everywhere, in both water and soil. Known as an opportunistic bacterium, it mainly infects vulnerable or hospitalized individuals and is notable for its frequent resistance to antibiotics. Why It’s a Problem in Bottled Water Standards require the complete absence of P. aeruginosa at the time of ...

Spread of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Surging, WHO Warns
Spread of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Surging, WHO Warns

The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly. The United Nations' health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections ...

Paracetamol, Pregnancy, Autism: The Debate Reignited
ExplainerParacetamol, Pregnancy, Autism: The Debate Reignited

Who hasn’t slipped a pack of paracetamol into their bag or medicine cabinet? As the pain reliever and fever reducer most of us rely on, paracetamol is a daily fixture, especially for pregnant women, who are often advised to avoid many other medications. Yet this familiar gesture conceals an important question: is paracetamol use during pregnancy ...

September Third-Hottest Globally on Record
September Third-Hottest Globally on Record

The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month. September did not break the record for the month set in 2023 and was only marginally cooler than the same period last year, said the EU's global ...

Is ChatGPT Doomed to Hallucinate in Order to Survive?
ExplainerIs ChatGPT Doomed to Hallucinate in Order to Survive?

Like other generative models, ChatGPT revolutionized our relationship with information while continuing to deliver confident factual errors. OpenAI, the company behind the famous chatbot, published a new study that doesn’t dispel doubts but instead reveals how deeply the problem is rooted in the system’s design. These so-called hallucinations ...

All Eyes on the 2025 Nobel Prizes: What You Need to Know
All Eyes on the 2025 Nobel Prizes: What You Need to Know

The 2025 Nobel Prizes have officially begun, with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarding the prizes for medicine on Monday and physics on Tuesday. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Medicine Prize for discoveries on immune system function, while John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis received the ...