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The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant in California pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint that survived cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs
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New study links psychedelic drug experience to certain positive health behaviors - A new online survey of U.S. adults indicates that people who report using any of the classic psychedelics at least once in their lives also reported smoking cigarettes less often and eating healthier diets.
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COVID-19 vaccine candidate MVA-CoV2-S confers full protection against SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion in humanized mice, preventing brain viral replication and the associated neuronal and vascular damage, even after reinfection, according to a paper published in Nature Neuroscience
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Research analyzes spread of COVID-19’s most common early conspiracies.The overwhelming majority, roughly 87 percent, of webpages linked in tweets and retweets centered on the conspiracy theory surrounding Bill Gates, a villain-based conspiracy theory blaming Gates for creating the virus
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8 out of 10 preterm babies suffer newborn jaundice. Therapy involves exposing the baby to blue light, however, there are no standard guidelines on the precise color of light, irradiation power and duration. Scientists suggest fluorescence measurement will improve jaundice testing and therapy.
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Iron Supplementation ‘Is Beneficial For Intelligence’. The effect was shown to increase with supplement dosage, with researchers highlighting that the “results suggest that oral iron intake can improve the cognitive development of children and adolescents living in LMICs.
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