Female nurses were about twice as likely to die by suicide as women in the general population, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry.

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Study: Female nurses twice as likely to die by suicide compared to other women

EPA approved Oxitec’s mosquitoes for release this spring. Some scientists and locals want to halt the deployment

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First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys

(Cell Press) One of the azhdarchid pterosaur's most notable features for such a large flighted animal was a neck longer than that of a giraffe. Now, researchers report an unexpected discovery in the journal iScience on April 14: their thin neck vertebrae got their strength from an intricate internal structure unlike anything that's been seen before.

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Gigantic flying pterosaurs had spoked vertebrae to support their 'ridiculously long' necks

Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases specialist, on Wednesday, said that he sees "similarities" between clotting issues that have arisen in a small handful of patients who took the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and issues that arose in some patients that were administered AstraZeneca's vaccine.

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Men are more likely to die from COVID-19, but less likely to get vaccinated. The gender gap troubles public health experts.

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Why aren't more men getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet’s magnetic field and how that field operates. New research about Jupiter proves that point — and adds to the intrigue. Peter Dela

Intriguing Secret to Jupiter’s Curious Aurora Activity Revealed in New Research

(DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory) Scientists developed a new mathematical model for predicting how COVID-19 spreads, accounting for individuals' varying biological susceptibility to infection and levels of social activity, which naturally change over time.

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Suppression of COVID-19 waves reflects time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity

There are three types of Pseudopus legless lizards, not two, and the Levantine one is the biggest – and the oldest, says new zoological study

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Lizards eaten by prehistoric people in today's Israel were unknown subspecies

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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Ohio can enforce a 2017 law banning abortions when medical tests show that a fetus has Down syndrome.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled that Gov. Tony Evers' administration does not have the authority to issue capacity limits on bars, restaurants and other businesses without

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