The USS New Jersey is the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically for women.

The Navy lifted the ban on women on submarines back in 2010 .

The crew of every Navy ship has to work as a team.

The skipper believes the women submariners have brought more than war-fighting skills to his crew.

Amazon Web Services will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom AI chips.

The company plans to make 40,000 of the first -generation Trainium chips available for the program.

The move comes as AWS , still the largest cloud computing company by sales, has seen a sharp challenge from Microsoft .

Costa Rica bestows highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele for security gains.

President Rodrigo Chaves lauds efforts as his own country continues to struggle with homicide numbers.

The recognition has brought controversy in Costa Rica , long known as Central America ’s most stable democracy.

The country is wracked by violence in recent years , largely attributed to drug trafficking.

Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman.

Aid groups say Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands that it allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip .

The Biden administration last month called on Israel to “surge” more food and other emergency aid into Gaza , setting a 30-day deadline that was expiring Tuesday .

In a severely damaged structure, the team found more than a dozen families — including people with disabilities and some in urgent need of medical care — sheltering in the basement which had no electricity and was full of sewage, he said,. ___ For more Middle East news: https://apnews.com/hub/middle-east.

A 60-year-old man was denied a long-term-care insurance policy because he had a genetic mutation linked to ALS .

The genetic-nondiscrimination law was passed in 2008 , but gaps in the law mean insurers can deny customers coverage based on their genetic risk factors for disease.

Studies have shown that people seek out additional insurance when they have increased genetic odds of becoming ill or dying.

Research has consistently found that concerns about discrimination are one of the most cited reasons that people avoid taking DNA tests.

For some genetically linked diseases, such as ALS and Huntington ’s disease, knowing you have a harmful mutation does not enable you to prevent the potential onset of disease.

As we learn more about what genes mean for everyone’s health, insurance companies could use that information to dictate coverage for ever more people.

The average age of onset is 40 to 60 , but many people don’t show symptoms until well into their 70s .

No one can predict all of the potential consequences of decoding the genome.

Current guidelines recommend that pregnant people receive a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus during weeks 32-36 of pregnancy.

Maternal RSV vaccination at least 5 weeks prior to delivery led to the most efficient transfer of maternal antibodies across the placenta to the newborn.

The findings are published in theAmerican Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology .

Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark found light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe 's temperate forests before Homo sapiens.

The team looked to oak, hazel , and yew as "detectives" of ancient forest life, revealing clues about how past woodlands were structured.

Large herbivores played a leading role in maintaining open and semi-open landscapes.

Dental therapists are now authorized to practice in 14 states and focus on underserved populations.

They're not full-fledged dentists, but they've received enough training to provide a limited set of dental procedures.

Dr. Donald Chi says dental therapists are not substitutes for dentists.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) on a person having a cardiac arrest, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of saving the person's life and protecting their brain function.

More than 357,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen each year in the U.S. with a 9.3% survival rate.

Study identified 160,822 witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred from 2013-2022 .

Researchers used data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) The average age was 64 years old , and more than 54,000 ( about 34% ) were women.

Battle of al-Qadisiyyah took place in 636 or 637 AD, but its precise location was not previously known.

Battle marked a significant victory for Arab Muslims and enabled their expansion beyond Arabia .

Researchers from Durham University in the UK and the University of Al Qadisiyah in Iraq say they have found the site of the battle.