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“Hack Your Health”: 6 things we learned from Netflix’s documentary about the human gut microbiome
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 days agoVariety of fruits and vegetables Getty Images/Tanja Ivanova In the past 15 years, scientists have...
Could a blood test someday be used predict whether someone will have a stroke?
CBS News· 1 day agoRight now, the condition is diagnosed by MRI, but it can still be hard to predict whether a given...
Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here's What They Found
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoResearchers have made a digital map showing a tiny chunk of a human brain in unprecedented detail. Based on a brain tissue sample that had been surgically removed from a person, the map represents ...
Can Forgetting Help You Remember?
The New Yorker· 2 days agoIn “Why We Remember” (Doubleday), Charan Ranganath, a neuropsychologist at U.C. Davis, writes that the question he always gets when he mentions that he...
Donald “Don” Smith
Daily Press· 4 days agoBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Don was a dedicated scientist and servant of the people, spending much of his career abroad as a Foreign Service Officer, a role that allowed ...
The Woman Inheriting AMLO’s Revolution
Foreign Policy Magazine· 8 hours agoPaid for by legislators in Sheinbaum’s party, Morena, the signage was intended to make the former climate scientist and then-Mexico City mayor known...
‘I still have nightmares from my jury service on a rape trial’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoAmy Herbert is remembering her jury service two years ago in the West Country. It was a gruesome,...
First human to receive modified pig kidney dies
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe first person to undergo a transplant procedure for a genetically modified pig kidney has died, the hospital that performed the surgery and his family...
‘Keep it in your heart’: You could be arrested for taking sand from the beach on this Italian island
Euronews via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAfter a French couple was arrested in 2019 for smuggling 14 plastic bottles full of sand from the...
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
Technology Review· 5 days agoAt the nanoscale, researchers can trace the brain’s wiring one neuron at a time to the synapses, the...