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Epidemiology Call To Action: German Cats Have Two Fewer Lives Than French
Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect id...
Earth Sciences
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Leaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrive...
Life Sciences
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194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you. Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good ins...
Medicine
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Wellness Grifters Switched To Republican With Kennedy, But The Sketch Remains The Same
Just a few short years ago, if you believed that weedkillers cause cancer, vaccines cause autism, and supplements were medicine, your political leaning was so predictable you draw a county-size circle...
Physical Sciences
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Breaking The Shower Containment Taboo For Hadron Calorimeters
Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside t...
Social Sciences
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Kids Get Into Halloween With These Scary But Suitable Books
Halloween is one of the few holidays centered around children. When else can students come to school dressed like astronauts, monsters and witches, or ring strangers’ doorbells to ask for candy?But of...
