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Phys.org / Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites

Meteorites provided a rare but ready source of iron for ancient Bronze Age cultures before smelting became common. A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, sheds light on how the ancient Minoan and ...

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Medical Xpress / How to prevent and recognize iron deficiency in toddlers

The devastating recent deaths of three toddlers in Queensland, linked to low iron levels, have understandably left many parents wondering whether their own child is getting enough iron. The good news is that life-threatening ...

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Phys.org / Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why

The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period.

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Phys.org / Scholar's work in South America helps fight Chagas disease in the U.S.

A three-month Fulbright U.S. Scholar trip to Argentina wasn't just about bringing Texas know-how to South America for Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D., a Texas A&M AgriLife Research entomologist and professor in the Department of Entomology ...

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Medical Xpress / Childhood abuse and neglect linked to later life inflammation, premature birth

Pregnant women with a history of child abuse or neglect experienced increased inflammation when exposed to mild stress compared with women without those experiences, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. ...

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Medical Xpress / Late-stage parasite blockers could turn mosquito bites into malaria vaccine boosters

Researchers from WEHI (Melbourne, Australia) have discovered a new way to help prevent malaria that could one day transform mosquito bites from a source of deadly infection into immunity boosters against the disease.

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Medical Xpress / Organs age at different speeds: A blood test might soon tell which ones

AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann ...

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Phys.org / EU cities plan to compensate for a fifth of their emissions through carbon removal, but few have thought through how

An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities are planning to rely on carbon removal to compensate for about a fifth of their emissions. This would ...

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Medical Xpress / Cell 'invisibility cloaks' could offer side-effect-free diabetes treatment

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" may offer an easier, less damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn State.

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Medical Xpress / Professor becomes his own test subject in longevity study; biological age found to be 15 years younger

Most individuals encounter their health primarily through an annual health screening, which provides a limited snapshot of their health status. A new study by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore ...

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Phys.org / An 'influencer' degree? Colleges bet on content creator major as critics question its value

Ask a teen what they want to be when they grow up, and there's a fair chance being an influencer is on their list.

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Phys.org / TESS discovers a rare brown dwarf orbiting a massive, aging star

For decades, astronomers lumped brown dwarfs into a single category defined by mass alone—too big to be classified as planets but too small to become stars. However, this definition ignores the two very different mechanisms ...

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