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In a massive collaborative effort, researchers have compiled the most complete healthy human cell atlas yet, mapping the positions of more than a million cells across 33 different organs.  This incredible feat forms a comprehensive reference to help us better understand human health, diseases, treatments, and vaccines, with the aim to map every cell type in the human body as part of the international Human Cell Atlas."You can think of it as a Google Maps of the human body," Wellcome Sanger Institute cellular geneticist…

Earlier this week, someone posted cell phone videos of Tony-nominated actor Jesse L. Williams and co-star Michael Oberholtzer that were taken during a nude scene from the play they’re in, Take Me Out. Deadline reports that Second Stage Theater, where the play is performed on Broadway, had taken steps to keep cellphones out of audience members’ hands during the play, requiring the use of Yondr pouches that are supposed lock cellphones away when someone is in a restricted area. It’s unknown whether someone unlocked the…

Meta is continuing the Meta-fication of its brands by renaming Facebook Pay, its payment system available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to Meta Pay. The change is set to happen “soon,” according to a blog post from Stephane Kasriel, Meta’s head of commerce and financial technologies, and is the latest indication that the company formerly known as Facebook is all in on the metaverse. “We’re focused on enhancing the payments experiences we already provide with Facebook Pay where we’re seeing good…

Damaged wood houses after the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906. Credit: Shutterstock Large earthquakes can wreak enormous violence upon lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and the environment. High-density urban populations in the relatively small, seismically active areas of British Columbia and the Québec City-Montréal-Ottawa corridor leaves residents extremely vulnerable to earthquakes.…

By NASA May 11, 2022Boeing CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft. Credit: NASATeams from <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as…

McDonald's franchise owners are expressing concern and frustration over a new grading system the fast food giant is planning to roll out early next year, with some saying it is poor timing due to unprecedented pressures in the workforce.The company plans to enact the system, called Operations PACE, which stands for Performance and Customer Excellence, in January 2023. McDonald's notes its "business climate is changing" in a 60-page overview of the PACE system, which was viewed by CNBC, and says it needs a "new approach…

AI traffic light system could make traffic jams a distant memory. Credit: Aston University Long queues at traffic lights could be a thing of the past, thanks to a new artificial intelligence system developed by Aston University researchers. The system—the first of its kind—reads live camera footage…

These six short stories are almost a novel, interlinked by characters who drift and reconnect with one another in the way friends do, living a big-city, post-university life. And this is Calder’s canvas: young adulthood, and a generation simultaneously bound to one another via social media and yet lost in a disconnected modern world. It comes, helpfully, with a glowing quote from that generation’s chronicler-in-chief, Sally Rooney, who calls Reward System “an exhilarating and beautiful book”.They’re not necessarily the…

The techniques our cells use to dispose of waste products offers some exciting avenues for us to potentially intervene in their behavior, whether it's clogging up these garbage disposal systems to bring cancer undone or repairing their defects to tackle Alzheimer's. Research from MIT has shown how this activity is ramped up during cell division, with the newly discovered mechanism potentially offering scientists a "toggle" for treating these kinds of diseases.The breakthrough centers on cellular cleaning organelles called…

For Laura Bates, it began with a heavy piece of gold jewellery that her mother found on the passenger seat of the family car. It was a gift from her grandparents. Her mother, after two daughters, had been rewarded for giving birth to a son. “I am five years old,” Bates writes, “and have no idea I’ve already been weighed, valued and found wanting.”This incident is the first on what the feminist writer and activist calls “my list”. She encourages all women to make one, charting a life in sexism, from the playground to the…