The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been…
Category: 7. SciTech
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		 Timing your breakfast right may help you live longer, major study suggestsEating breakfast later as you get older could be linked to poorer health and an early death, according to a recent study of 3000 adults. Following participants for an average of 22 years, scientists found that those who tended to eat breakfast later in the morning were slightly less likely to… Continue Reading
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		 Plastic from takeaway containers may fuel Alzheimer’s risk, study warnsPlastic particles from takeout containers and other day-to-day products are making their way into the brain and triggering Alzheimer’s-like… Continue Reading
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		 Study finds drinking alcohol can help you speak a foreign languageDutch courage may really help when it comes to speaking a foreign language, according to this year’s Ig Nobel Prize… Continue Reading
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		 Science behind perfect pasta sauce, pizza-eating lizards, drunk bats win Nobel prize parodyResearch into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting… Continue Reading
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		 Experts make new mosquito discovery which could eliminate malariaMalaria-carrying mosquitoes are evading efforts to control them in growing numbers. But this may be coming to an end soon, as a group of… Continue Reading
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		 Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV ImmunizationA federal vaccine advisory committee made of members hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended in an 8-3 vote on Thursday that the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine should not be given before age four, citing long-known… Continue Reading
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		 Student unearths rare stone that shows face carving of a Pict from almost 2,000 years agoA student has discovered what is thought may be a rare carving of a Pict’s face while volunteering on a dig. Jodie Allan was digging at East… Continue Reading
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		 Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard GazetteHuman history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands. More than a decade of work on ancient human DNA has upended it all. Instead, Harvard geneticist David Reich said on Monday,… Continue Reading
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		 His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history — Harvard GazetteSince 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient people to probe mysteries surrounding the origins of human life. But the future of their work faces uncertainty after the Trump administration’s mass cancellation of nearly $2.7… Continue Reading
