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Peptides Are Spreading on Social Media. Here’s How Platforms Can Better Protect Public Health

For starters, they need to take the same approach they did to vapingThe postPeptides Are Spreading on Social Media. Here’s How Platforms Can Better Protect Public Healthappeared first onNautilus.

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The "Other" Ebola: Unmasking the Lethal Logic of Bundibugyo Virus

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NASA’s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels of ultraviolet radiation. One of the galaxies they studied, M1...

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Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet shapes microbial life and influences the carbon cycle

A new study involving researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, shows that methane concentration is among the key factors determining the composition of microbial communitie...

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Could This Cellular “Cleanup Crew” Hold New Clues to Chronic Inflammation?

The discovery could offer new clues about chronic inflammatory conditions. Cells in tissues such as the skin, gut, and airways regularly die and need to be removed. Their neighbors face a difficult ta...

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Fire amoeba breaks heat tolerance record for complex life

An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life

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A Child’s Gut Microbiome May Signal Type 1 Diabetes Risk Years Before Diagnosis

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Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy

An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found the first so-called "microblazar" in the Milky Way. This stellar system is composed...

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Four Million Ancient Coins Reveal What Really Held the Roman Empire Together

Rome conquered with its legions, but nearly four million ancient coins reveal what truly held its vast territories together: money, markets, and trade. Researchers have reconstructed how money moved a...

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How ancient superbugs could help us fight antibiotic resistance

As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can identify problem genes and develop treatments before our pathogens acquire t...

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African children need access to proven sickle cell treatment

Phys.org 7/10 ?

Can a long-lived seabird evolve fast enough to avoid extinction under a changing climate?

As the climate changes, species face a critical question: Can they evolve quickly enough to keep pace with their changing environment?

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UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health

El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for a cycle of the climate phenomenon predicted to be the most intense on record.

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The tilt in Earth's axis makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons

Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly orbit around the sun. The substantial tilt, about 23.5 degrees, is thought to be t...

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Hurricane Polo strengthens to top Category 5 off Mexico

Hurricane Polo reached maximum Category 5 strength off Mexico's Pacific coast Tuesday but is expected to stay at sea, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

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Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in haze-hit Indonesia

More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday, as the country has battled for weeks to control fires that caused t...

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Hot spring amoeba breaks record for heat tolerance of complex life

A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study published in Cell, scientists describe a new species of amoeba that can eat and repro...

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New tool aims to deliver graziers a faster, more accurate read on exactly how much feed is in front of their cattle

A drone lifts off over a paddock at Boorowa Agricultural Research Station, the breeze from its rotors setting the tall, uncut grass below rippling. At the controls, Stuart Brown, a senior research tec...

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A tiny chariot fitting reveals Egyptian glass reached Iron Age Britain

At the end of last year, curators from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford came to Diamond to learn more about a 2,000-year-old prehistoric artifact. Using the microfocus beamline at I18, researchers unloc...

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Study finds families raising autistic children show resilience alongside higher stress

Families raising a child with autism may experience greater levels of stress, but new University of Kentucky research published in the journal Autism suggests that is only part of the story. The study...

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