Day and night across the seasons, a lunchbox-sized instrument generates breathable gas from Mars’s thin atmosphere. In several experimental runs, it reached its target of producing 6 grams of oxygen per hour–about the rate of an average tree on Earth. The findings were published in the peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal Science Advances on August 31. It is titled: Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)—Preparing for human Mars exploration and authored by a group of scientists, led by Professor Jeffrey Hoffman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....

On Friday, McCourty and Long appeared in a video titled “StandingPats: (Be Patriots) alongside New England fans, explaining their opposition to Trump and why they made their decision to skip. MORE: Why Patriots are in position to pull off first Super Bowl repeat since … Patriots “When my son grows up, and I believe the legacy of our president is going to be what it is, I don’t want him to say, ‘Hey dad....

However, the Pelicans and Thunder had other ideas. The two rebuilding franchises dueled it out in Oklahoma City, in a game with 15 lead changes and 14 ties, providing one of the craziest endings in the league’s regular-season history. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The 113-110 final score far from tells the complete story. Clutch Devonte’ Graham With no timeouts, just 1....

Diabetes is not the only cause of frequent urination. There are many potential reasons you may be peeing more often than usual. This article explores the connection between frequent urination and diabetes, treatment options, and when to see your healthcare provider. What Is Frequent Urination? Frequent urination (polyuria) is when you need to pee many times throughout the day. Most people urinate six to seven times per day, though “normal” can range between four to 10 times in a 24-hour period....

Getting the flu shot can help reduce your risk of being infected with the influenza virus and complications like pneumonia, sinus infections, reduced control of blood sugar levels, and hospitalization. The flu vaccine can help prevent these outcomes. This article will review the safety and effectiveness of the flu shot for people with diabetes, its possible side effects, things to know before getting the shot, and risks of the flu for people living with diabetes....

The eye’s blood vessels and the light-sensitive retinal tissue at the back of the eye are affected by high blood sugar. High blood sugar can damage blood vessels and cause them to leak. If the fluid leaks into the retina, it can cause swelling. Diabetic retinopathy can also cause abnormal new blood vessels to form on the retinal surface, called neovascularization. This article will highlight the causes, genetic links, risk factors, and more to help you understand how diabetic retinopathy affects vision and your vulnerabilities to developing this condition....

MRIs are not used on their own to make a diagnosis but can often provide strong evidence to support one. When faced with a knee injury, infection, or joint disorder, doctors will often use an MRI to not only pinpoint the cause but to help direct the treatment plan. While some people find MRIs distressing, either because they are claustrophobic or jarringly noisy, they are invaluable tools which offer a less invasive means of diagnosis....

Still, with a passion usually seen only in the aftermath of a riot, those who profess concern over racial estrangement are pushing the issue onto the national agenda. Last week, House Speaker Newt Gingrich followed the president’s June 14 race speech with his own 10-point plan for racial progress. Most of the speech was a repackaging of familiar GOP nostrums, but Gingrich also offered a vision of a new, less race- conscious America, with a ““multiracial’’ census category established as a step toward eventually abolishing racial labels altogether....

“The only way we can become immune to the environment; we must be out in the environment. Quarantining people inside of their houses for extended periods will make people sick!” the conservative duo told their 1.4 million Twitter followers. Their tweet contradicted advisements made by President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force telling citizens to avoid public socializing and unnecessary travel during the epidemic. Hardaway and Richardson’s Twitter account remained locked until they eventually deleted the tweet....

The closest I’ve come to anyplace like Afghanistan in these charged days is Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, during the heyday of warlordism there in the early 1990s. The ubiquitous sense of danger, the throngs of destitute people staring and grabbing when you venture out onto the streets, the grim and gaunt-faced warriors in their pickup trucks stuffed with AK-47s and rocket launchers, the bleak and blasted landscape–southern Afghanistan could be Somalia revisited....

The paper, which consists of a systematic literature review and meta analysis, was written by Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. His co-authors were Jonas Herby, a special adviser at the Centre for Political Studies in Copenhagen, and Lars Jonung, a Lund University economist. Fortune magazine described the authors as “free marketers....

The Raiders linebacker had been lying low ever since the NFL suspended him for one year back in November for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. But a Periscope video emerged Sunday that shows a man and woman smoking during a “Fire up session,” and there is plenty of evidence that points to the man in the video being Smith. MORE: Loudmouths, cheaters and criminals: Most hated NFL players...

In August 2018, archaeologists at L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland uncovered cannabis pollen, along with walnut pollen and remains of two non-indigenous beetles species—Simplocaria metallica, from Greenland, and Acidota quadrata, from the Arctic. They also found charcoal, caribou dung and woodworking debris. L’Anse aux Meadows was settled sometime around 910 A.D. and, until now, scientists believed it was only briefly occupied. But according to a report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the ecofacts found at a peat bog nearby radiocarbon date to the 12th or 13th century....

It was too late. The 6-year-old boy settled a schoolyard score last week by taking a .32 semiautomatic and shooting his first-grade classmate, Kayla Rolland, age 6, in the chest. As she lay bleeding to death on the floor of the classroom, the boy did not seem to understand what he had just done. It’s never easy to know the mind of a 6-year-old, but the shooter’s must have flickered with demons, a jumble of dark images from fantasy and real life unrestrained by conventional morality....

If you are having this procedure, your surgeon will remove skin and fat from your abdomen and move them up to your chest wall to create a new breast mound. This procedure is a form of autologous reconstruction, which is a type of surgery that uses your own tissue for reconstruction. DIEP is a free flap procedure that reconnects the blood vessels taken from the abdomen tissue to the chest....

You can improve much of this by watching what you eat and exercising more. While most doctors suggest 200 minutes of exercise a week to maintain your weight, midlife women need to do 300 minutes to achieve the same goal. One recent study of 164 overweight and obese women in Minnesota suggested that lifting weights may be one of the best ways to beat belly fat. Women who did supervised weight training for two years had only a 7 percent increase in intra-abdominal fat, compared with 21 percent for women who were just given exercise advice....

NeonMob, masters of digital art, teamed up with the NFLPA to release a series of limited-edition collectible portraits of over 40-plus NFL stars created by artist Michael Vincent Manalo. They’re tradable — like playing cards — but they’re truly works of art. Manalo took inspiration from each player’s hometown create incredibly unique designs. MORE: Best NFL player at each jersey number | Disney characters as NFL logos Sporting News readers can get their own free pack of the digital portraits by clicking here....

Biden and the Democrats are facing tough task in November—persistently high inflation is very likely to remain a key issue with voters with less than three months until election day. The headline figure for July was 8.5 percent, following the previous month’s reading of 9.1 percent. The expected figure was 8.7 percent. Core inflation remained at 5.9 percent, which was also lower than the expected 6.1 percent. The minor fall in inflation was driven by a decline in the cost of gasoline, with prices still rising in the food and shelter categories....

Symptoms Psoriatic arthritis is known for starting at the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints, which are the joints closest to the fingernails and toenails. Stiff and inflamed fingers will make it harder to perform the simplest tasks, such as zipping a jacket or opening a jar. Stiff and swollen toes make walking and standing for long periods painful. Swelling associated with DIP PsA usually affects the entire finger or toe. It is asymmetric, meaning it affects only one side of the body....