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  What are the biomarkers of Alzheimer's really telling us?

  Salon - Carlyn Zwarenstein

  From pandemics to wildfires, the past few years have given us all too much to think about. Add doom-scrolling and automatic refreshing and flicking between screens – no wonder many of us are distracted, or even forgetful. What's the difference between this, and mild cognitive impairment presaging …

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  Fast food: Black holes devour stars much quicker than we thought

  Salon - Elizabeth Hlavinka

  Across the universe, the immense gravitational pull of black holes sucks up whirlpools of gas called accretion disks. Due to something called the "Lense-Thirring effect," surrounding matter falling into black holes doesn't just fall straight down as an object dropped on Earth would. Instead, upon …

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  Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration

  Salon - Jeffrey Gillis-Davis

  In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the globe, India's Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down 375 miles (600 km) from the south pole of the Moon on Aug. 23, 2023. In just under 14 Earth days, Chandrayaan-3 provided scientists with valuable new data and further inspiration to explore the …

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  How to vaccinate raccoons for rabies? From the sky

  Salon - Emily Mullin

  This August, government airplanes and helicopters have been dropping tiny parcels from the sky for raccoons to find. Each one is about the size of a ketchup packet and contains an oral rabies vaccine that coats the mouth of the animal that bites into it. The vaccine is the United States' best bet …

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  NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial

  Salon - Chris Impey

  NASA's independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on Sept. 14, 2023. In part to move beyond the stigma often attached to UFOs, where military pilots fear ridicule or job sanctions if they report them, UFOs are now characterized by the U.S. government as UAPs, or …

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  Can at-home DNA tests predict how you’ll respond to your medications?

  Salon - Kayla B. Rowe, Lucas Berenbrok, Philip Empey

  Have you ever wondered why certain medications don't seem to work as well for you as they do for others? This variability in drug response is what pharmacogenomic testing hopes to explain by looking at the genes within your DNA. Pharmacogenomics, or PGx, is the study of how genes affect your …