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Menopause in Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Human Uniqueness
New research reveals that female chimpanzees experience menopause and live beyond their reproductive years, challenging previous beliefs and providing new insights into the evolution of menopause in mammals. Above is a female chimpanzee from the Ngogo community in western Uganda. Credit: The Ngogo Chimpanzee Project Research on the Ngogo community in Uganda reveals that humans…
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Astronaut Captures Image Of Mysterious “Red Sprite” High Above The Earth
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Unmasking the Stars of the Magellanic Stream After 50-Year Search
Artist’s rendition of the Magellanic Stellar Stream. The Milky Way’s nearest neighboring galaxies — the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds — are shown on the right side of the illustration. As these galaxies move to the right, the gaseous Magellanic Stream billows behind them, intertwining and stretching across the southern sky. The illustration also shows…
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First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts
It has been one of the universe’s greatest mysteries — the disappearance of the first tomato grown in space. That is, until this week, when the seven astronauts at the International Space Station announced on the 25th anniversary of the orbiter that they found the rogue fruit. “Well, we might have found something that someone…
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“First Light” – NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment Captures First Images of Mesosphere
Artist’s impression of AWE mapping the properties of global mesospheric gravity waves. Credit: NASA NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) has recently captured initial images of the mesosphere from its perch on the International Space Station (ISS). AWE was installed on the Space Station on November 18, and initial commands were sent to the instrument on…
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A French nationwide study compared various conditions and healthcare use of individuals
Population characteristics In 2019, the prevalence of DS was 0.055% in individuals of all ages (Fig. 1) and 0.068% when IDS over the age of 65 years were excluded (3% of the 36,464 IDS). For IDS under the age of 10 years (born in 2009–2019) the prevalence was relatively uniform, at about 0.07%. IDS prevalence decreased…
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Long-term follow-up of patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation after primary induction failure
for the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), Passweg JR, Baldomero H, Bader P, Bonini C, Cesaro S, et al. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Europe 2014: more than 40,000 transplants annually. Bone Marrow Transpl. 2016;51:786–92. Article CAS Google Scholar Döhner H, Wei AH, Appelbaum FR, Craddock C, DiNardo CD, Dombret H, et…
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Physical education teachers’ knowledge of physical activity recommendations for health promotion in children and adolescents
The present study sought to analyse the knowledge of Portuguese PE teachers about the WHO PA recommendations for children and adolescents concerning three components: frequency, duration, and intensity. Based on the results, it was found that most teachers are not fully aware of the PA recommendations, which follow previous works20. PE teachers’ especially important role…
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Tectonic Clay Efficiently Traps Organic Carbon
MIT researchers have discovered that smectite, a clay mineral formed from plate tectonics, can sequester carbon effectively, influencing global climate over millennia. Their findings suggest that smectite has been instrumental in triggering past ice ages and offers potential for future climate change mitigation. Credit: SciTechDaily.com An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and…
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Yellowstone Hydrothermal System Examined In Unprecedented Detail
The colorful Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the park’s largest and the third-largest spring in the world. Research by UW Professor Ken Sims and colleagues has provided new insights into… Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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