The House passes a bill banning transgender girls and women from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.

The bill would amend Title IX , the law banning sex discrimination in schools, to recognize a person's "sex" The bill passed in the House with 218 voting in favor, 206 voting against and one voting present.

A similar measure has been reintroduced in the Republican -controlled Senate .

The vaquita, which means "little cow" in Spanish , is the world's smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal.

Since 1997 , vaquitas have experienced a dramatic population loss from about 600 individuals to an estimate of less than 10 animals.

Florida Atlantic University , in collaboration with the San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego, is playing an important role in this preservation.

Vaquitas are expected to become extinct imminently.

The 3D scans of this vaquita skeleton will be hosted on MorphoSource , a publicly accessible data repository.

The scans will be available for download and used for education, outreach, and research purposes.

SeaWorld San Diego will be working with Bone Clones to produce full replicas of the skeleton for education.

Australian women are challenging traditional views of aging, embarking on solo road trips and traveling the country in search of adventure, personal growth and new horizons.

Margaret Yates , a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) interviewed 29 women travelers to explore their motivations and experiences.

Many women, despite chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease, report better well-being.

8% of U.S. health care costs are attributable to work-related stressors, particularly among medical providers.

45% of medical providers report high levels of job burnout.

Self-guided meditation may be a low-cost, low-burden way of improving employee health at scale.

As little as five minutes a day decreases stress.

Kate , Britain 's Princess of Wales, visited London hospital where she underwent cancer treatment last year .

Kate , 43 , underwent a course of preventative chemotherapy after major abdominal surgery a year ago revealed the presence of cancer.

On Tuesday she paid an official visit there to mark her becoming joint patron of its specialist cancer unit.

Online parenting skills program developed at the University of Oregon can help parents in rural areas.

Parents who engaged with the program reported fewer symptoms of depression and improved parenting effectiveness.

Rural areas have been disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic.

Mental health issues, substance misuse or both affect many families in the United States .

More information: Katherine A. Hails et al, Family Check-Up Online effects on parenting and parent wellbeing in families of toddler to preschool-age children, Early Childhood Research Quarterly ( 2024 ). DOI: 10.1016 /j.ecresq.2024.09.009 Provided by University of Oregon .

H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) has caused a panzootic affecting all continents except Australia .

First detected in milk samples collected from dairy cattle in Kansas and Texas in March 2024 , Clade 2.3.4b of the virus has since been further detected in cattle on 891 farms across sixteen states in the US .

Procter & Gamble sought to understand which surfactants in cleaners can cause eye irritation.

Researchers used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory .

P&G has committed to global sustainability goals through its Ambition 2040 initiative.

The study grew out of the firm's commitments to product performance, safety and environmental sustainability.

Surfactants in shampoo and other cleaners that irritate the eye disrupt the outer corneal membrane to create microscopic holes that allow chemicals to penetrate to the tissues beneath.

Increased concentration of surfactants studied didn't necessarily increase damage to the membrane, at least in contact with the liposome alone.

The results could point to formulas for gentler, less-irritating surfactsants.

NASA astronaut John W. Young , commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera.

Young 's original black-and-white picture was printed on Agfacontour professional film three times, with each exposure recording only one light level.

The three light levels were colored blue (dimmest), green (next brightest), and red (brightest).

Over 50 obesity experts from across the globe conducted the report, as part of a commission backed by The Lancet .

Currently, obesity is diagnosed strictly by a person's BMI , which is calculated using a person’s weight and height.

The experts aren’t calling for doctors to completely abandon BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, but for it to be used alongside other bodily measurements.

The group’s recommendations are ultimately just that.

But their conclusions are being widely endorsed by health-related organizations across the worldâ76 in total.

There are still important big questions left to be answered about the nature of obesity, such as the exact prevalence of preclinical to clinical obesity.