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• Children of Centenarians Share One Surprising Habit That May Boost Longevity

  19-05-2026 23:54 via scitechdaily.com
  People with long-lived parents often follow healthier eating patterns that may support longer, healthier lives. Researchers found higher consumption of fish, fruits, and vegetables and lower intake of sugar and sodium among centenarian offspring. What if the secret to living to 100 isn’t just hidden in your genes — but also on your dinner plate? [...]
  
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• A Medieval Notebook Found in a German Latrine Sat Underground for Nearly 800 Years

  19-05-2026 23:45 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how a notebook filled with handwritten notes survived inside a medieval latrine in Germany, and how the book could shed light on how merchants recorded transactions, reminders, and daily life centuries ago.
  
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• As Meta lays off 10%, 7,000 employees will be moved into AI roles, source says

  19-05-2026 23:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Meta is moving 7,000 employees into roles focused on AI and consolidating them into four new organizations, according to a source familiar with the matter.
  
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• The Boss, Banff’s Celebrity Grizzly Bear, Caused a 1,422-Car Bear Jam — Here’s Why It’s a Problem

  19-05-2026 23:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Meet The Boss, Banff National Parks’ celebrity grizzly bear whose unruly fans keep causing bear jams that are dangerous for both humans and the wildlife.
  
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• Scientists Discover Cheap, Natural Remedy for High Blood Pressure

  19-05-2026 23:19 via scitechdaily.com
  Peppermint oil lowered blood pressure in adults with mild hypertension during a 20-day study, offering a potentially inexpensive and effective treatment option. New research suggests that daily peppermint oil supplements may help reduce mildly elevated blood pressure. Researchers at the University of Lancashire found that taking 100 microliters (about 0.0034 fluid ounces) of peppermint oil [...]
  
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• Google announces slew of AI advances, including a personal AI assistant coming soon

  19-05-2026 22:00
  Google is introducing a range of new AI tools, including an AI assistant called Gemini Spark, which proactively performs tasks for users
  
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• Archaeologists Discover Prehistoric Mountain Cave Packed With Mysterious Green Mineral

  19-05-2026 21:42 via scitechdaily.com
  A prehistoric Pyrenees cave may have been an early copper-processing camp repeatedly used for thousands of years, with archaeologists also uncovering child remains and symbolic jewelry. Archaeologists working high in the eastern Pyrenees have uncovered evidence that a prehistoric cave may have been used for early copper processing. The site contains numerous hearths filled with [...]
  
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• A Common Asthma Drug May Help the Immune System Fight Cancer Again

  19-05-2026 20:55 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how the asthma drug montelukast helped restore immune attacks against tumors in several cancer types.
  
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• This Common Houseplant Is Secretly Using Advanced Geometry

  19-05-2026 19:56 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have discovered that the Chinese money plant hides a remarkable geometric system inside its leaves, revealing that nature may solve complex problems using mathematical rules similar to those found in computer science and city planning. People often see meaningful shapes and patterns in random things. Maybe you have looked at clouds and spotted a [...]
  
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• Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling Fast and Scientists Finally Know Why

  19-05-2026 19:21 via scitechdaily.com
  Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere are getting hotter, but far above the planet, another dramatic change has been unfolding in the opposite direction. The upper atmosphere has been steadily cooling for decades, creating one of the most recognizable signs of human-driven climate change. Scientists have understood that this was happening, but the detailed physics behind [...]
  
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• 32,000 Olympic Pools of Magma Nearly Erupted Beneath Atlantic Island

  19-05-2026 18:46 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have uncovered how a huge underground magma surge shook Portugal’s São Jorge Island with thousands of earthquakes. In March 2022, São Jorge Island in Portugal’s Azores experienced thousands of earthquakes caused by a huge underground surge of magma (molten rock), according to a new study led by researchers at UCL (University College London). The [...]
  
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• China Will Buy Oil From The U.S.

  19-05-2026 17:28 via technocracy.news
  My cutting-edge analysis on China has received catcalls and scorn from deep state shills. The world is changing, or at least your perception of it. We know China was built up from the ground up by multinational corporations starting in 1976, and those ties have tightened. China has never been an enemy, and it is painfully evident as Chinese tankers flock to American ports to buy oil!
  Wrap your head around this: China is taking its place in the global Technocracy that is being built by Trump and
  
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• Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision

  19-05-2026 17:22 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have developed a new technique that could turn black hole collisions into cosmic detectors for dark matter, revealing faint traces hidden inside gravitational waves. Dark matter is believed to account for most of the matter in the universe, yet it appears to interact with ordinary matter only through gravity. Scientists think that if two [...]
  
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• Exercise Changes the Heart in a Way Researchers Never Expected

  19-05-2026 16:07 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers discovered that exercise changes heart-related nerve structures in surprisingly uneven ways. Your workout may be changing your heart in ways scientists never realized. Beyond strengthening muscles and improving endurance, exercise appears to rewire the nervous system that controls the heartbeat itself, and it does so differently on the left and right sides of the [...]
  
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• Scientists Warn Ultra-Processed Foods Could Be Hurting Your Brain

  19-05-2026 15:32 via scitechdaily.com
  Ultra-processed foods may harm attention span and raise dementia risk factors, according to new research involving more than 2,100 adults. Ultra-processed foods are becoming a larger part of everyday diets around the world, but scientists are increasingly warning that the convenience may come at a cost to brain health. New research from Monash University, the [...]
  
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• Your Liver May Be Filling With Plastic – and Scientists Are Alarmed

  19-05-2026 14:57 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists warn that microplastics accumulating in the liver may worsen liver disease and pose a growing global health threat. Microplastics may be doing more than polluting oceans and ecosystems — scientists now believe they could also be accumulating in the human liver and contributing to the growing global burden of liver disease. Researchers studying environmental [...]
  
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• A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell

  19-05-2026 14:42
  A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment
  
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• Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing

  19-05-2026 09:04 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly developed bacterial cellulose manufacturing technique could lead to strong, multifunctional materials capable of replacing plastics. What if the next generation of high-performance materials did not come from a factory filled with petroleum-based plastics, but from living bacteria? Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have developed a new way to turn [...]
  
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• Scientists Uncover Hidden Biological Differences Between Men and Women’s Immune Systems

  19-05-2026 05:49 via scitechdaily.com
  A massive single-cell study has revealed hidden genetic differences in male and female immune systems that may shape disease risk in unexpected ways. New research from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney may help explain why women are far more likely than men to develop autoimmune diseases, including lupus. Autoimmune diseases occur [...]
  
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• A filmmaking tool or an existential threat: Cannes Film Festival weighs the rise of AI

  19-05-2026 05:37
  The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties of the industry tending to surface at the event
  
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• Scientists Challenge a Long-Held Belief About Why Human Childbirth Is So Difficult

  19-05-2026 05:14 via scitechdaily.com
  A new study suggests that difficult childbirth is not exclusive to humans. For decades, human childbirth has been treated as one of evolution’s great compromises. Our species walks upright, yet also gives birth to babies with unusually large brains, creating a famously tight squeeze during delivery. This idea has shaped everything from anthropology textbooks to [...]
  
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• Too Much Sleep May Age Your Body Faster, New Study Warns

  19-05-2026 04:39 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers discovered that sleeping too little or too much is linked to accelerated aging in organs throughout the body. The study also connected abnormal sleep patterns to mental health, cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic disorders. An analysis of biological aging clocks across the body suggests that both too little sleep and too much sleep may accelerate [...]
  
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• Chaos consumes Swatch stores over pocket watch collaboration with Audemars Piguet

  19-05-2026 04:16 via nbcnews.com
  Swatch shut down over a dozen stores after crowds swarmed some locations trying to buy the company’s new pocket watch collection with Audemars Piguet, that are already listed for thousands on re-sale sites. NBC News’ Marquise Francis reports.
  
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• First look at new Trump Mobile smartphone

  19-05-2026 03:31 via nbcnews.com
  After a nine-month wait, repeated calls and emails, NBC News finally received the long-delayed Trump Mobile T1 phone - raising new questions about where it’s actually made. NBC News’ Brian Cheung reports.
  
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• Neanderthals Snacked on Shellfish During the Winter, a Seasonal Pattern Later Seen in Humans

  19-05-2026 00:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how Neanderthals living in Southern Europe knew when to collect and eat shellfish, displaying a seasonal strategy just like modern humans.
  
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• Scientists Uncover Promising New Strategy To Stop Parkinson’s in Its Tracks

  19-05-2026 00:28 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly identified immune-related protein may help drive the spread of Parkinson’s disease in the brain. A protein tied to the brain’s immune system may be helping Parkinson’s disease spread from cell to cell, and scientists believe stopping it could open a new path toward slowing the disease itself. In a new study published in [...]
  
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• Gabi, an AI Robot, Has Been Ordained and Is Now a Buddhist Monk

  19-05-2026 00:15 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how a religious order in South Korea is embracing AI and robotics and what that could mean for religion around the world. 
  
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