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Helping Your Grandkids Could Have a Surprising Brain Benefit, Study Finds
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Helping Your Grandkids Could Have a Surprising Brain Benefit, Study Finds

Grandparents affect their grandchildren's lives in many ways, but a new study suggests seniors might benefit from this caregiving, too.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 9 hours ago

Breakthrough Water Filter Removes 'Forever Chemicals' 100x Faster Than Carbon
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Breakthrough Water Filter Removes 'Forever Chemicals' 100x Faster Than Carbon

An international team of scientists has discovered a record-breaking method of removing a class of harmful 'forever chemicals' from contaminated water.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 11 hours ago

Semaglutide Pill Shows Heart Benefits in One Key Group, Study Finds
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Semaglutide Pill Shows Heart Benefits in One Key Group, Study Finds

Taking oral semaglutide may reduce heart-related hospitalizations and deaths among those with a history of heart failure and type 2 diabetes, a new analysis suggests.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 13 hours ago

Study Reveals a Turning Point When Men's Heart Attack Risk Accelerates
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Study Reveals a Turning Point When Men's Heart Attack Risk Accelerates

Screening for heart attack risk should be happening earlier for men, according to a new study that found the risk of cardiovascular disease starts climbing when men are in their mid-30s – significantly earlier than a similar trend is seen in women.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 13 hours ago

Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery
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Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery

Around 10 percent of people who take statins to lower cholesterol experience mysterious muscle pains, causing many to discontinue these potentially life-saving medicines.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 22 hours ago

Surgeons Kept a Man Alive With No Lungs For 48 Hours. Here's How.
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Surgeons Kept a Man Alive With No Lungs For 48 Hours. Here's How.

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach that could be used again for selected patients.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · yesterday

250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Our Unique Hearing
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250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Our Unique Hearing

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 2 days ago

Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered
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https://www.sciencealert.com/missing-link-between-parkinsons-protein-and-damage-to-brain-cells-discovered
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Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition Parkinson's disease and the death of critical brain cells.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 2 days ago

Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Preserved a Huge Surprise
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Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Preserved a Huge Surprise

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 2 days ago

Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins
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https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-virus-discovered-in-japanese-pond-may-hint-at-multicellular-lifes-origins
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Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of viruses – and possibly also into the origins of multicellular life.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 2 days ago

Roots of Many Miscarriages May Trace Back To Before The Mother Is Even Born
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https://www.sciencealert.com/roots-of-many-miscarriages-may-trace-back-to-before-the-mother-is-even-born
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Roots of Many Miscarriages May Trace Back To Before The Mother Is Even Born

Pregnancy loss remains common around the world.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

Carbon Dioxide 'Pulses' Clears Toxins From Parkinson's Brains in Recent Study
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https://www.sciencealert.com/carbon-dioxide-pulses-clears-toxins-from-parkinsons-brains-in-recent-study
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Carbon Dioxide 'Pulses' Clears Toxins From Parkinson's Brains in Recent Study

Manipulating how much carbon dioxide a person breathes can crank up the brain's 'sewage system', researchers have found.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

This Week in Science: Meat-Eater Longevity, Space Viruses, And More!
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This Week in Science: Meat-Eater Longevity, Space Viruses, And More!

This week in science: how eating meat could be associated with a longer life; a switch for fat cell production; how space travel could supercharge viruses to fight for us; and much more! Study Finds Meat Eaters Are More Likely to Live to 100, But There's a Catch [caption id="attachment_190241" align="alignnone" width="642"] (punhha/Canva)[/caption] A study of over 5,000 people in China showed that meat eaters have a higher chance of living to 100 years of age – but there are a lot of caveats.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

Scientists Identified a New Blood Group After a 50-Year Mystery
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Scientists Identified a New Blood Group After a 50-Year Mystery

A pregnant woman's blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

Mysterious Structure in Bird Eyes May Explain a Curious Lack of Blood
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Mysterious Structure in Bird Eyes May Explain a Curious Lack of Blood

Here's some science trivia for you: unlike the inner retina in most animals (including us), birds' inner retinas function without oxygen.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 4 days ago

Forever Chemicals Linked to Multiple Sclerosis in Concerning New Study
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Forever Chemicals Linked to Multiple Sclerosis in Concerning New Study

People who are exposed to certain forever chemicals may be at greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 4 days ago

A Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Reveals
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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-sleeping-pill-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-reveals
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A Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Reveals

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 4 days ago

Mouse Study Flags a Serious Downside to Popular Weight-Loss Diet
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Mouse Study Flags a Serious Downside to Popular Weight-Loss Diet

The high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet has been growing in popularity in recent years, following claims of rapid weight loss.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 4 days ago

Fierce Storms Expose 19th-Century Maritime Mystery on Jersey Shore
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Fierce Storms Expose 19th-Century Maritime Mystery on Jersey Shore

The powerful storms battering the Jersey Shore this winter have revealed the ruins of an old wooden ship buried beneath sea and sand for nearly 140 years.

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@ciencia@mastodon.online · 4 days ago

Scientific Breakthrough Could Double Rare Earth Elements Extraction
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Scientific Breakthrough Could Double Rare Earth Elements Extraction

Rare earth elements are used in a wide variety of modern technologies, from wind turbines to phones.