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These Are The Key Takeaways in The New US Alcohol-Cancer …
1 day ago · Many people use the new year to reflect on their relationship with alcohol. Just-released government guidelines are giving Americans another reason to consider a "dry January." Over the past few decades, mounting scientific evidence has shown that as little as 1-2 alcoholic drinks per day can lead ...
Oldest Unbroken Record of Earth's Climate Pulled From Antarctic …
16 hours ago · Researchers at EPICA, including scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, had their work cut out for them. It took about 20 days just to deliver all their infrastructure and cargo to the site from a nearby research station.. Storage of the ice cores. (When drilling finally got underway, an isotopic analysis system was able to read out glacial and interglacial cycles …
Researchers Have Found a Way to Help Erase Bad Memories
1 day ago · Being able to erase bad memories and traumatic flashbacks could help in the treatment of a host of different mental health issues, and scientists have found a promising new approach to do just this: weakening negative memories by reactivating positive ones. In an experiment covering several days, an ...
Strange Blobs Found Deep Inside Earth Where No Such
1 day ago · Earth scientists have been using seismic waves to plot our world's subterranean landscape for over a century.Like the music that radiates from a night club, these seismic signals pass through some materials faster or slower, or even bounce off them entirely, so what we 'hear' from the surface can tell us a lot about what's going on within.
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Scientists Found Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core
While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known chapters in that history, deep within Earth's past. In fact, Earth's inner core appears to …
Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down, And Could Explain Why We …
3 days ago · Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those changes is ...
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When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And Animals Began to Act Differently Nature 3 days ago
The Risk of Cancer Fades as We Get Older, And We May
Dec 22, 2024 · Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations build up in our bodies. But then, past the age of around 80, the risk drops again – and a new study may explain a key reason why. What emerged was higher levels of a protein ...