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Bird Flu Associated with Hundreds of Seal Deaths in New England in 2022, Tufts Researchers Find
A study from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is the first to connect highly pathogenic avian influenza to a large scale mortality event in wild mammals.
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A scientific salad for astronauts in deep space
The ingredients were chosen for their nutritional value, as well as how easy they’ll be to grow with the limited room and resources available on a spacecraft.
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1st woman given stem cell transplant to cure HIV is still virus-free 5 years later
A woman who received a stem cell transplant to treat her HIV is still virus-free more than five years after the procedure and 30 months after she stopped taking HIV medication.
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Scientists offer evidence that Venus is volcanically active
Venus appears to have volcanic activity, according to a new research paper that offers strong evidence to answer the lingering question about whether Earth's sister planet currently has eruptions and lava flows.
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Exposing tumours to bacteria converts immune cells to cancer killers
New research on inflammation could lead to better treatments to improve outcomes for people with advanced or previously untreatable cancers.
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60% of US foods Contain technical food additives, new study finds
60% of foods purchased by Americans contain technical food additives, which include colouring or flavouring agents, preservatives, and sweeteners.
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First vaccine for honeybees could save billions
Bees play a pivotal role in US agriculture but are dying at alarming rates.
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Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
Greenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it may be due to atmospheric changes
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Breathwork may improve mood and change physiological states more effectively than mindfulness meditation
A new report published in Cell Reports Medicine has found that individuals who use assigned breathwork techniques experienced greater improvements in mood and lowered respiratory rates as compared to those practicing mindfulness meditation.
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The first wiring map of an insect's brain hints at incredible complexity
Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.
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The world’s newest space telescope just found something that shouldn’t exist
The James Webb Space Telescope was built by the international community to help humanity better understand the stars, but images captured during a recent space survey may have just made our understanding of the universe even more complicated.
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Scientists create mice with two fathers
The technique could pave the way to allowing two men to have children together
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Scientists have revived a 'zombie' virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost
Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health.
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
A Japanese researcher has told a major genetics conference that he has created eggs from the cells of male mice. The research, still in its early stages, involved turning male XY sex chromosomes into female XX ones.
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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives
The gene-editing tool is being tested in people, and the first treatment could be approved this year.
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Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species
The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn’t the norm.
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Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points
Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating
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Aging Is Linked to More Activity in Short Genes Than in Long Genes
A detailed examination of gene activity in various organisms, including humans, reveals a new hallmark of the aging process
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Florida man finds giant clam estimated to be 214 years old
The clam was born the same years as Abraham Lincoln, and it was given a very apropos name.
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Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres
Astronomers are slowly shining light on the dark objects hovering in a narrow part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In a new study, researchers found that 10 well-known asteroids have features much like the belt’s largest object, the dwarf planet Ceres, including minerals on their surfaces that formed through reactions with liquid water. They estimate these Ceres-like asteroids formed just 1.5 million to 3.5 million years after our solar system's birth, which makes them important remnants of complex chemical and physical processes that occurred in the early solar nebula.
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