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Your Smartphone May Be Off On Your Exercise Calories By 25%
There is only one way to stay at a healthy weight; burn more calories than you ingest. High-fructose corn syrup does not matter, organic food does not matter, gluten-free doesn't matter. Even quinoa d...
Earth Sciences
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Inconsistency Of EV Battery Pack Performance Remains A Challenge
Electric cars are currently limited in utility, which means continued government subsidies and high cost, because battery technology has not changed in the last 35 years. When everything else in a tec...
Life Sciences
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Heel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. We may have been able to travel farther for exploration, and obtain food, thank...
Medicine
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Tariffs Have Been Good For U.S. Whiskey Drinkers
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory ta...
Physical Sciences
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Epidemiology: Microplastics Cause Lung Cancer
A new paper links lung cancer to microplastics; the tiny particles you can't detect without an electron microscope. Before you rush to the paper to see the plausible biological mechanism they found, y...
Social Sciences
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Why Understanding the Human Condition Remains One of Science’s Great Challenges
Science has explained an extraordinary amount about the world around us. But one of its most elusive subjects remains remarkably close to home: ourselves. What made humans the way we are? How did...
