Maryland is one of several states reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against ...

A deep dive into H5N1 in U.S. dairy herds, from udder health to biosecurity. Discover why commercial milk remains safe and how the virus is evolving.

Polypropylene (PP) beverage cups typically used for cold drinks have earned the “Widely Recyclable” designation from How2Recycle, a program developed by nonprofit GreenBlue. The designation means more ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

Separating human figures and backgrounds at the pixel level is a classic task in image segmentation with a wide range of applications. Generally speaking, this task can be categorized into two types: ...

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Let's be real, building PowerPoint presentations isn't exactly an enjoyable task. Between formatting slides, cutting down text, and finding a flow of slides that makes sense, the process can feel ...

Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...