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World’s oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb
Aging usually improves the flavor of cheese, but that’s not why some very old cheese discovered in an Egyptian tomb is drawing…
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Parental life span predicts daughters living to 90 without chronic disease or disability
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that women whose mothers lived to at least age 90…
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How ugly marital spats might open the door to disease
Married people who fight nastily are more likely to suffer from leaky guts — a problem that unleashes bacteria into the blood…
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Chemicals found in vegetables prevent colon cancer in mice
Chemicals produced by vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli could help to maintain a healthy gut and prevent colon cancer, a…
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Zombie gene protects against cancer — in elephants
An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive elephants — who also live…
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Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere
Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an…
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Early opaque universe linked to galaxy scarcity
A team of astronomers led by George Becker at the University of California, Riverside, has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years…
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Unraveling the nature of ‘whistlers’ from space in the lab
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as “whistlers” — very low…
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Light-engineered bacterial shapes could hold key to future labs-on-a-chip
Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according to a…
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Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials…