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Calcium Supplements and Dementia: Major Study Busts Long-Held Myth #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #CalciumSupplements #Dementia #HealthResearch

Calcium Supplements and Dementia: Major Study Busts Long-Held Myth

Calcium supplements do not appear to raise dementia risk. Long-term data support their safety for older women. New findings from Edith Cowan University (ECU), Curtin University, and the University of...

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Lifting Weights Could Change Your Gut Microbiome Within Weeks #Science #Biology #Microbiology #GutHealth #Microbiome #Fitness

Lifting Weights Could Change Your Gut Microbiome Within Weeks

Building your body from the inside out.

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Scientists Extend Lifespan by over 70% in Elderly Male Mice with New Treatment #Science #HealthandMedicine #GeneticsandGenomics #AgingResearch #Genetics #HealthInnovation

Scientists Extend Lifespan by over 70% in Elderly Male Mice with New Treatment

These findings demonstrate that OT+A5i has a significant ability to extend health span and highlight the sex-specific differences in aging and in responses to longevity treatments. A new study featured...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

The Human Mind Isn't Meant to Be Awake Past Midnight, Scientists Warn #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #SleepScience #CircadianRhythm #MentalHealthAwareness

The Human Mind Isn't Meant to Be Awake Past Midnight, Scientists Warn

Dangerous things can happen.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #AlzheimersResearch #MedicalBreakthrough

New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours

Opening gates to the brain.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules #Science #Space #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #SpaceScience

When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules

Scientists have begun to piece together the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that met their fate on an unusual orbital path. The merger, designated GW200208_222617 (that...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

Why Do Whales and Dolphins Beach Themselves, and Is Dementia to Blame? #Science #Biology #Ecology #whales #dolphins #marinebiology

Why Do Whales and Dolphins Beach Themselves, and Is Dementia to Blame?

Learn more about the tentative ties between brain degeneration and beaching in dolphins, which could become more and more common as climate change continues.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

Here's What Starship's Successful 11th Test Means For NASA's Moon Mission #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #Starship #MoonMission #NASA

Here's What Starship's Successful 11th Test Means For NASA's Moon Mission

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

Solving the Mystery of Solar Rain #Science #Space #Astrophysics #SolarRain #SpaceScience

Solving the Mystery of Solar Rain

It rains on the Sun! Although not in any way we'd recognise from Earth. In the Sun's corona, the superheated atmosphere that extends millions of kilometres above its visible surface, cooler blobs of plasma...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

A Growing Weak Spot in Earth's Magnetic Field May Cause More Satellites to Short Circuit #Science #EarthSciences #Geophysics #EarthMagneticField #Satellites #SpaceTechnology

A Growing Weak Spot in Earth's Magnetic Field May Cause More Satellites to Short Circuit

Learn about the growth of the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where Earth's magnetic field has significantly weakened.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

SpaceX Veteran Lays Out Impulse Space's Roadmap for Making Deliveries to the Moon #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceX #MoonDelivery

SpaceX Veteran Lays Out Impulse Space's Roadmap for Making Deliveries to the Moon

Impulse Space, the California-based venture founded by veteran SpaceX engineer Tom Mueller, has unveiled its proposed architecture for delivering medium-sized payloads to the moon, starting as early as...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

Autism Is More Than One Condition, Study of Over 45,000 People Finds #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #AutismResearch #Neuroscience

Autism Is More Than One Condition, Study of Over 45,000 People Finds

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

Scientists Discover New Golden-Tongued Species of Lizard #Science #Biology #Zoology #LizardSpecies #Biodiversity #WildlifeDiscovery

Scientists Discover New Golden-Tongued Species of Lizard

At 6 to 7 cm in length, with a wheat-colored tongue and distinctive markings, it represents the 47th recorded species of Diploderma in China. Chinese researchers have formally identified a new species...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat #Science #Biology #Microbiology #ChicagoRatHole #MicrobiologyMystery #UrbanWildlife

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat

Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

Why Do Women Outlive Men? Evolution’s Secret Revealed Across 1,000 Species #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #WomenOutliveMen #EvolutionarySecrets #BiologyResearch

Why Do Women Outlive Men? Evolution’s Secret Revealed Across 1,000 Species

The study explores the evolutionary origins of the lifespan difference between women and men. Across the globe, women generally outlive men, a pattern that has persisted throughout history and in nearly...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

How People With ADHD Can Harness Mind Wandering and Enhance Creativity #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #ADHD #Creativity

How People With ADHD Can Harness Mind Wandering and Enhance Creativity

Learn why consciously letting thoughts drift, not just impulsive distraction, could help explain why people with ADHD often excel at innovation.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

There's a 'critical' design flaw in women's running shoes, warn scientists #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #RunningShoes #DesignFlaw #FootHealth

There's a 'critical' design flaw in women's running shoes, warn scientists

Women’s running shoes might be holding them back from reaching their full athletic potential, according to a recent study. Published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, the paper found that there...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

Hippos Lived Alongside Mammoths 47,000 Years Ago During the Last Ice Age #Science #Biology #Zoology #HipposAndMammoths #IceAge #FossilFinds

Hippos Lived Alongside Mammoths 47,000 Years Ago During the Last Ice Age

Learn how radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis revealed that hippos were alive and thriving during Europe’s last ice age.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

The “Really Big One” Might Trigger California’s Next Catastrophe, Scientists Warn #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #CaliforniaEarthquake #NaturalDisasters #GeologyScience

The “Really Big One” Might Trigger California’s Next Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

Geologic clues reveal a hidden link between two major faults. A Cascadia quake might set the San Andreas in motion soon after. When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest shifts, it...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

Ancient Romans Gave Tiny Bronze Skeletons to Party Guests As a Morbid Reminder to Live Life #Science #Culture #AncientRome #CulturalHistory #MorbidHumor

Ancient Romans Gave Tiny Bronze Skeletons to Party Guests As a Morbid Reminder to Live Life

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Research on Science, Technology and Growth #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #NobelPrize #Economics #Innovation

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Research on Science, Technology and Growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic Fire Hydrant #Science #Space #Astronomy #Comet3IATLAS #SpaceResearch #Astrophysics

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic Fire Hydrant

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

Famous monkey-face ‘Dracula’ orchids are vanishing in the wild #Science #Biology #Ecology #DraculaOrchids #Biodiversity #Conservation

Famous monkey-face ‘Dracula’ orchids are vanishing in the wild

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

Grains, sheep and soldiers: How one scientist is studying the physics of crowds #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #PhysicsOfCrowds #ScientistsAtWork #AppliedPhysics

Grains, sheep and soldiers: How one scientist is studying the physics of crowds

Applied physicist Iker Zuriguel studies the movement of particles and people to optimize their flow and improve public safety.

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