The world's first transatlantic fiber cable is being pulled off the ocean floor

TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...
Nanowerk

Reading peptides one amino acid at a time through a sub-nanometer pore

A pore smaller than one nanometer reads peptide sequences amino acid by amino acid, pinpointing single-site Alzheimer's ...
BMJ Open

Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a scoping review of associated mental health risk and protective factors

Objectives The mental health impacts of COVID-19 on frontline healthcare workers have been reported globally; however, there is limited evidence from low-income countries such as Ethiopia. We reviewed ...
Tobacco Control

Pro-tobacco legislative representation and current smoking: an individual-level panel study of older adults in Japan

Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...