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Hospital patients that are prescribed antibiotics are more likely to get fungal infections because of disruption to the immune system in the gut. Immune-boosting drugs could reduce the health risks from complex infections.Patients prescribed antibiotics in the hospital are more likely to get fungal infections because of disruption to the immune system in the gut.Using immune-boosting drugs alongside the antibiotics could reduce the health risks from these complex infections, according to a new study from the <span…

Credit: Shutterstock Gaze aversion, lack of emotional expression, repetitive body movements, or speaking in monolog tone can sway people's judgment of another's credibility and honesty—notably in the criminal justice system. …

According to a new study, we need to transform the global food system in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.“Just shrinking the size of our current food system won’t cut emissions much. Instead, we need to transform the very nature of that global food system,” says Benjamin Bodirsky, a researcher at Potsdam and the World Vegetable Center in Tainan, Taiwan, and author of a new study published in the journal Nature Food.“That means on the one hand that people consume what they need in terms of nutritional…

Our solar system is a single-star system. But this is not necessarily true for all star systems in the Milky Way, the galaxy where our solar system is located. There are several multi-star systems in this galaxy. While most of these are binary systems comprising two stars, there are others which have more than as well. With stars, comes the talk of supernova, the last stage in the evolution of a massive star, when it bursts into a luminous stellar explosion. Astronomers are always looking out for any potential supernova…

iOS 16 is expected to bring “major changes across the system” and some new Apple apps, as per a new report. The information comes from the latest edition of the Power On newsletter published by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. When asked about which operating system he thinks would receive the most attention at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022 event, Gurman replied that it would most likely be iOS 16. However, he does not expect Apple to completely redesign its operating system with its release.Gurman has…

Multiple star systems are very common in the Milky Way. While most of these systems are binary systems consisting of two stars, others contain three, four, or even six stars.These systems tend to be pretty stable since unstable systems tend to break apart or merge fairly quickly, but sometimes you can get a kind of meta-stable system. One that lasts long enough for stars to evolve while still being stable in the end. And that end could be a supernova.  It all comes down to gravitational dynamics. In Newtonian physics,…

Google has announced new features in Android Auto including a split-screen mode with a brand new interface and soon, the users will be able to browse the web directly from the display of their cars.Android Auto has expanded to support more than 150 million cars across nearly every car brand.“As we work to add more capabilities to cars with Google ‘built-in’ in the future, you’ll be able to not only browse the web directly from your car display, but also cast your own content from your phone to your car screen," said the…

In recent years, much of the most innovative work in the anglophone short story has come from Ireland, from writers such as Colin Barrett, Wendy Erskine and Nicole Flattery. New debut collections by gifted British authors Saba Sams and Gurnaik Johal have shown the unmistakable influence of their Irish peers. The publication of Reward System by Cambridge-born Jem Calder provides further evidence that the medium is attracting some of the most talented young writers of fiction at work today, on both sides of the Irish…

Geologists expected the Westdahl Peak volcano to erupt again by 2010, yet it sits still intact and restless – pointing to flaws in our predictive models.Trying to accurately warn when volcanoes will go boom is a crucial but tricky business to protect surrounding people and reduce aviation risks. So many factors must be considered, and this lack of explosion has highlighted one that has mostly been overlooked.  "Volcanic forecasting involves a lot of variables, including the depth and size of a volcano's magma chamber,…

Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet undergroundA team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand how to harness energy from deep below ground.The Stimulation and Flow System is the newest “rock star” from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its partners, designed to investigate how water travels underground through extremely hot rock and subsequently transmits heat to the surface.The new system is part of the Enhanced Geothermal…