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Briefing: Match Day results show impact of federal immigration policy

Strategic angle: In today's Morning Rounds newsletter: the high-stakes search for a new CDC director, the impact of immigration policy on budding doctors, and more.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: How soil microbes may control the future of our planet

Strategic angle: The soil beneath our feet is a huge carbon bank storing up to approximately three times more carbon than the entire atmosphere.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Doctronic raises $40 million as race to apply AI in clinical care heats up

Strategic angle: Doctronic, the startup behind a provocative experiment in Utah to renew drug prescriptions with a chatbot, has raised $40 million.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Insmed drug benefits patients with rare, bacterial lung disease, study shows

Strategic angle: Insmed hopes to convert Arikayce's accelerated approval to a full approval.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Pfizer’s Lyme vaccine shows efficacy, but misses key statistical hurdle

Strategic angle: A new vaccine shows some promise in combating Lyme disease, which affects nearly half a million Americans annually.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: 'Space archaeology' reveals first dynamic history of a giant spiral galaxy

Strategic angle: Astronomers use galactic archaeology to trace the history of a distant galaxy.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Scientists discover Alzheimer’s hidden “death switch” in the brain

Strategic angle: A toxic pairing of proteins may drive Alzheimer’s disease, but researchers have found a way to turn it off in mice.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Her son needed a fecal transplant for a fearsome C. diff infection. Getting one required a tortuous journey

Strategic angle: A mother's struggle to secure a life-saving treatment for her son amidst challenges.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Opinion: The AI push in health care is deepening medicine’s trust crisis

Strategic angle: Health care’s adoption of AI should move at the speed of trust, not investment, writes Oni Blackstock.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Predatory feral ferrets removed from an island for the first time ever

Strategic angle: Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland is now ferret-free after a £4.5m partnership aimed at protecting seabird colonies.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: A Fault Line in Full Bloom

Strategic angle: Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Swissto12 to build small optical relay GEO satellite for Space Compass

Strategic angle: Swissto12 signs contract to develop the first optical relay spacecraft using its HummingSat platform.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high

Strategic angle: State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Neutrality can speed up and stabilize collective decisions, new study shows

Strategic angle: A new study from the University of Bath reveals that neutrality in discussions can enhance decision-making efficiency.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: The President’s Malaria Initiative and Other U.S. Government Global Malaria Efforts

Strategic angle: This fact sheet provides a snapshot of global malaria efforts and examines the U.S. government’s role in addressing malaria worldwide.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: World’s first quantum battery could enable ultra fast charging

Strategic angle: Scientists in Australia have demonstrated a prototype quantum battery that could revolutionize energy storage.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: This floating time crystal breaks Newton’s third law of motion

Strategic angle: Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air.

Editorial Staff Mar 23

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Briefing: Measuring Irreversibility in Gene Transcription

Strategic angle: Understanding the irreversible processes in living cells that drive gene transcription.

Editorial Staff Mar 22

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Briefing: Two-thirds of workers are burned out—here's what science says about how to tackle it

Strategic angle: Burnout is at an all-time high, with studies indicating that two-thirds of employees cite it as a major challenge.

Editorial Staff Mar 22

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Briefing: How conversation works—and why people with hearing loss rely more on their powers of prediction

Strategic angle: "Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation," wrote Oscar Wilde.

Editorial Staff Mar 22