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When a show has as wide an audience as RuPaul’s Drag Race, it’s inevitable that viewers will have their personal favourites – so it’s always refreshing when a queen is as near-unanimously popular among fans as Gottmik.

In an ideal world, first dates would mirror the very best Hollywood romances. You’d know instantly if you’d met ‘the one’ or at least sign up to have a great night of commitment-free fun.

One of the biggest career lessons you will learn is that doing great work is not enough to get ahead. You need to make sure others know about it, too. 

Americas Boeing won a $128.8 million contract for the F-15 Mission Training Center (MTC) simulation services to support the Air Combat Command, Pacific Air Forces and Air Force in Europe locations. The contractor will provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, tools, materials, supervision and other items to perform all MTC services. These services will provide simulation […]

In early June 2021, in a classified directive to Pentagon officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slammed the former Trump administration for talking big but never taking action to counter “the China threat.” Austin made it clear that things would be different under President Biden. His “tough guy” rhetoric strikes just the right tone … Continue reading "Countering the ‘China Threat’ – at What Price?"

As child tax credit payments begin to roll out in July, families are planning to pay for a range of necessities, from car repairs to dental work.

1. 'There may not be a conflict after all' in expanding universe debate  Phys.org
2. The Hubble Space Telescope Is in Really Serious Trouble  Futurism
3. Hubble's Primary and Backup Computer Just Broke  Interesting Engineering
4. Mystery over the expansion of the universe might not be a mystery at all, scientist says  The Independent
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Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have resulted in different answers. For the past decade, astrophysicists have been gradually dividing into two camps: one that believes that the difference is significant, and another that thinks it could be due to errors in measurement.

(Queensland University of Technology) Workshops with university students and academics from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated the study of aging should integrate a broad range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, public policy, biology, health services, humanities, economics, and the arts and design.

When researchers unexpectedly discovered that small strands of RNA were suppressing the production of certain genes in animals, they suspected they'd stumbled onto something big. More than two decades of research has since confirmed their suspicions, showing that microRNAs have a hand in regulating almost every functional trait in animals and plants. In a new study, researchers provide a roadmap for the most efficient software to use for discovering and detecting microRNAs in plants.

Study warns that changing climate in the Congo Basin is impacting assessment of the endangered apes

A relative decline in wealth during midlife increases the likelihood of a cardiac event or heart disease after age 65 while an increase in wealth between ages 50 and 64 is associated with lower cardiovascular risk, according to a new study in JAMA Cardiology.

Living cells are constantly exposed to a wide variety of mechanical stresses: heart and lungs must withstand expansion and contraction; our skin must be resistant to tearing whilst retaining elasticity; immune cells are squashy so they can move through the body. "Intermediate filaments" (special protein structures), play an important role here. Researchers at Göttingen University have now measured what determines the properties of individual filaments, and which features only occur through the interaction of filaments in networks.

Melbourne researchers have found that liquid chalk, commonly used in gyms to improve grip, acts as an antiseptic against highly infectious human viruses, completely killing both SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and influenza A viruses.University of Melbourne Professor Jason Mackenzie, a laboratory head at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) wanted to investigate whether liquid chalk stopped SARS-CoV-2 transmission after conversations with his daughter... Читать дальше...

Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking's black hole theorem for the first time.

OED Word of the Day: schlimazel, n. A consistently unlucky or accident-prone person.

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A new book explores how Scranton inspired the famed urbanist’s work.

(PLOS) Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method for studying how cells repair damaged DNA in space. Sarah Stahl-Rommel of Genes in Space and colleagues present the new technique in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 30, 2021.

(Ohio University) The research will look at the role of the motor neuron, the final neuron that connects the nervous system with the muscle, in health and disease.

(University of Southern California) A new report raises serious questions about the benefits, risks and ethics of a new service -- which the authors call "embryo selection based on polygenic scores," or ESPS -- that allows in vitro fertilization patients to select embryos with the goal of choosing healthier and even smarter children.

(European Society of Endocrinology) The European Society of Endocrinology's (ESE) Journal the European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE) has reached its highest ever Journal Impact FactorTM (JIF) in the 2020 Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR) announced today (30 June, 2021). It confirms a steady trend over the past years, making it a rising star and global leader in publishing clinical and translational endocrinology research. The highly respected Journal achieved an Impact Factor of 6.664.

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Wayne State University and Henry Ford Health System announced today the launch of a basic and translational research initiative in Cardiometabolic Health and Disease as a thematic focus for program growth.

(Technische Universität Dresden) Today marked the official launch of the recently started 'Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre' (ABCD-Centre) with a participation of more then 150 international research experts.