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That Medical Supplement Ad May Be A Deepfake AI Doctor
Once upon a time, suspect supplement salespeople who wanted to get rich had to be on the Oprah TV show or be friends with President Clinton.Not now. Drs. Oz, Chopra, Hyman, and Weil, or anyone who wan...
Earth Sciences
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Is Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?
A new paper posits that rather than being the random chaos theory colloquially known by things like the Butterfly Effect, recurrent coastal floods actually occur at very predictable times.The tides ha...
Life Sciences
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Why Oxygen, Not Time, Is What Makes Much of Our Food Go Bad
We tend to talk about food spoilage as if time itself were the culprit. Leave a bag of nuts, a bottle of juice or a packet of dried food on the shelf for long enough, the thinking goes, and age simply...
Medicine
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Enzyme USP15 Limits Ovarian Cancer Cells And Boosts Chemotherapy
If not caught early, ovarian cancer can be life-threatening. The five-year survival rate for later diagnoses, after it has spread, is under 30 percent and existing therapies kill healthy cells along w...
Physical Sciences
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Flying With Gamma-Ray Counters: Another Test Or Two Of The Radiacode Zero
Yesterday I traveled all day, moving my family back to Lulea from Padova. The trip is long because there is no direct connection from Venice to Stockholm (Norwegian has one, but I prefer to avoid them...
Social Sciences
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Ultra Patchwork Food: California AB 2244 Is An Expensive Anti-Science Mess
California AB 2244 is now law and marketing executives at Organic food companies are preparing to buy new mansions. Because the law says if a grocery store carries an "ultraprocessed" food item they a...
