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How Sex Testing in Sports Works—and Why It's So Hard Sport

How Sex Testing in Sports Works—and Why It's So Hard

From nude parades to genetic screening, sex verification in elite sports has a troubled 90-year history. The science is far more complicated than any...

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Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression Health

Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression

A large Swedish study published in The Lancet Psychiatry reveals that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the need for psychiatric care by 42%, opening a de...

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Scientists Grow First Lab-Made Esophagus in Major Win Science

Scientists Grow First Lab-Made Esophagus in Major Win

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL have created the first functional lab-grown esophagus, successfully implanting it in pigs that cou...

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World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year Health

World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year

Engineers at Cornell and Nanyang Technological University have created the MOTE — a wireless neural implant smaller than a grain of salt that recorded...

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What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well Science

What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well

NAD+ is a molecule essential for energy production, DNA repair, and over 300 enzymatic reactions. Its sharp decline with age is linked to disease and...

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How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected Health

How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected

Metformin is the world's most prescribed diabetes drug, taken by over 150 million people yearly. Scientists are still uncovering how it works, includi...

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Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are Science

Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are

Over 150 million people worldwide inject insulin daily. Scientists have spent a century trying to put it in a pill, but the human gut destroys the hor...

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How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits Science

How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits

Somatic cell nuclear transfer lets scientists copy mammals from a single body cell, but new research shows cloning hits a genetic dead end. Here is ho...

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How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction Health

How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction

Nav1.8 sodium channel blockers represent the first new class of non-opioid painkillers in over two decades, targeting peripheral pain signals before t...

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Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study Health

Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study

A major study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults presented at the American College of Cardiology found that the shingles vaccine reduced serious cardiac ev...

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What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common? Health

What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common?

Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, silently affects nearly one in three adults worldwide. Here is how it develops, why it often goes undetected, a...

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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