Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage & breathing problems. Findings are independent of asthma & smoking, large long term study shows.
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Japanese flying squirrels, strictly nocturnal mammals, eats pine seeds & most likely serves as a seed disperser for pine species. They may also be impotant in local food webs. Their cryptic coloration helps them blend into their environment, so that they are less easily detected by predators.
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An analysis based on health records from 89 million people in the USA found that people who had received two doses of the Moderna vaccine were less likely to develop COVID-19 or become hospitalized with the illness than people who had received the Pfizer vaccine.
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Quantum computing: Vibrating atoms make robust qubits, physicists find. The qubit appears to be extremely robust, able to maintain superposition between two vibrational states, even in the midst of environmental noise, for up to 10 seconds, offering a possible foundation for future quantum computers
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Coffee may become more scarce and expensive thanks to climate change. The world could lose half of its best coffee-growing land under a moderate climate change scenario. Brazil, which is the currently world’s largest coffee producer, will see its most suitable coffee-growing land decline by 79%.
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Gut microbes give thirteen-lined ground squirrels a helping hand to stay strong during hibernation. Some gut microbes salvage nitrogen from urea and use it to make amino acids. Hibernating squirrels can then use those amino acids to preserve muscle.
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A study of vaccinated parents & unvaccinated kids estimated having a single parent vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine associated with as much as 26.0% decreased risk of infection for children; with 2 vaccinated parents, risk decreased as much as 71.7%.
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New research from the University of Cambridge has provided strong evidence that mutations in two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, known to heighten breast cancer risk, can also be linked with increased risk of developing prostate, pancreatic and stomach cancers.
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How cutting-edge technology may help uncover hidden meteorites in Antarctica. Researchers trained a machine learning algorithm on images of meteorite-rich and meteorite-poor patches of Antarctica and found it could identify meteorite stranding zones with more than 80 percent accuracy.
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Research in England predicts that in coming decades, people will gain years of life much faster than they will gain years of life when they’re healthy and in work. Between 2015 and 2035, men in England will gain more than 3 years of life expectancy but less than half a year of healthy working life.
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Ghag is when a man aggressively declare a woman/girl his betrothed, often in a militarized manner -- he may fire gunshots while shouting her name & threatening other men. Unlike her, he is not obliged to marry her though. Since 2016, around 20 women have reportedly committed suicide because of ghag.
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Cannabinol, an active ingredient in cannabis, can help protect brain cells from oxidative damage & preserve mitochondrial function, two of the major contributors to Alzheimer’s. It could lead to the development of new therapeutics for treating this disease & other neurodegenerative disorders.
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A large study conducted in England found that, compared to the general population, people who had been hospitalized for COVID-19—and survived for at least one week after discharge—were more than twice as likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital in the next several months.
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Face pareidolia, the illusion of seeing a facial structure in an everyday object, is a common experience and now a study found people are more likely to see male faces when they see an image on the trunk of a tree or in burnt toast over breakfast.
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"Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed" in pornography.
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The “not all men” crowd is at it again.
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