Hurricane Debby flooded the Big Bend region of Florida a year after it was pounded by Category 4 Hurricane Idalia ...

Musk, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in South Africa, fiercely defended the H-1B visa program after Loomer criticized Trump’s appointment of an Indian American venture capitalist as adviser on ...

Gut health is crucial for overall well-being, aiding digestion, nutrient absorption, immunity, and mental health. Nine essential nutrients—Magnesium, Vitamin B12, Zinc, Vitamin D, Calcium ...

Researchers have identified a focal point for the forces they suspect of driving up cancer cases in young people: the gut. They are searching people’s bodies and childhood histories for culprits.

If our solar system were to lose a few moons or even a planet, the difference might be hard to notice—but lose the sun, and everything changes. Despite its role as neighborhood linchpin, however ...

What does that mean? If you’re an evidence-based thinker, it means nothing. If you’re a believer in astrology, however, it means I was born at a time of the year when the sun’s influence on ...

All previous searches for numts had been performed using immune cells from blood samples; that is why the scientific community had missed this stunning fact for decades. Blood immune cells undergo ...

This weakening may lead to increased intestinal permeability, often referred to as “leaky gut syndrome”. When the gut barrier is compromised, unwanted particles, including partially digested ...

In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one ...

Ever since humans started gazing at the heavens through telescopes, we have discovered, bit by bit, that in celestial terms we’re apparently not so special. Earth was not the center of the ...

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