To mark the start of February 2026, a full moon known as the “Snow Moon” will rise in the night sky early next week. While freezing temperatures and icy conditions have made this winter a brutal one for many people, the Snow Moon may brighten…
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Florida reports 3 new measles cases, including one in Hillsborough
Three new cases of measles have been confirmed in Florida, including one each in Hillsborough and Manatee counties, state data shows.
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Cannabis Drinks Are Growing in Popularity — and Helping Some People Drink Less Alcohol
Instead of heading straight back to the bottle after the end of Dry January, some people are looking for an alternative that doesn’t require cutting out the “fun” altogether. Alcohol’s risks are well documented, from physical diseases to…
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Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars.
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA’s Kepler Space…
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Wild Blueberries Show Promise in Fight against Heart Disease and Diabetes
Wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium) are North American perennial plants rich in polyphenols, including flavonoids, beneficial to human health. A new paper published in the journal Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition provides…
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New MOF nanoagent eradicates tumors by triggering dual chemical reactions
Scientists have developed a new nanomaterial that triggers a pair of chemical reactions inside cancer cells, killing the cells via oxidative stress while leaving healthy tissues alone.
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Gut Inflammation Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Confirmed Once Again : ScienceAlert
Researchers connecting pieces of the massive Alzheimer’s puzzle are closer to slotting the next one in place, with yet another link between our guts and brain.
Animal studies have demonstrated Alzheimer’s can be passed on to young mice…
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Solar Orbiter Reveals How Solar Flares Really Begin
Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun. Like snow avalanches that start with a small shift before rapidly growing, new observations show that solar flares begin with weak…
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Bronze reliquary cross unearthed in ancient Lystra
A rare bronze reliquary cross has been discovered during excavations of a church complex in the ancient city of Lystra, located in the Meram district of Konya, central Türkiye.
Lystra was one of the cities visited during the missionary journeys…
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Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions
Across Mediterranean Europe, olive groves are in decline from a range of factors, from disease to depopulation. In Italy alone, there are roughly 440 million abandoned olive trees, and the ecological, cultural and socioeconomic impacts from the…
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