Japan Moved Eastward by up to 5.3 Meters in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Japan moved eastward by up to 5.3 meters in the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake, with the largest shift measured…
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Some Microbiome Products Help Selected Ageing Outcomes, but Broad Anti-ageing Benefits Remain Unproven
Prebiotics and probiotics can help some specific outcomes in older adults, but there is no good evidence yet that prebiotics,…
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Times Beach Became the Abandoned-town Case That Defined Superfund
Times Beach, Missouri is still the classic example of a town that had to be abandoned because dioxin contamination, amplified…
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The Milky Way Has a Thin Disk, a Thick Disk, and a Huge Halo
The Milky Way’s thin disk is about 700 light-years high, its thick disk is about 3,000 light-years high, and its…
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Historical Mysteries Are Past Events With Incomplete Evidence
A historical mystery is a past event, person, or claim that cannot yet be fully explained from the surviving evidence.Historiography…
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The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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Ethyl Formate Gave the Milky Way Its Raspberries-and-rum Reputation
The Milky Way gets the “raspberries and rum” line because astronomers detected ethyl formate in a dust cloud near the…
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The Kumari Tradition Makes a Child the Living Goddess of Nepal
The Kumari of Nepal is a prepubescent Newar Shakya girl chosen to embody Taleju Bhawani, worshipped as a living goddess,…
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Daraxonrasib Resets Pancreatic Cancer Math; SoftBank Bets Big on French Compute; Palo Alto Bug Hits Live Networks
The dominant story is daraxonrasib, a pancreatic cancer pill whose phase 3 data put a hard number on a field…
