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Mastic-based chewing gum may have some benefit to your breath and microbiome, but it won’t change the way you look.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mastic-gum-benefits-jaw-antibacterial
A highly effective vaccine has long kept measles at bay in many parts of the world. But dropping vaccination rates bring urgency to the question: What’s the backup plan?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/measles-treatments-vaccine-clinical-trial
Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome envelopes heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes and other conditions that influence each other. A new clinical guideline encourages a treatment approach that is mindful of them all.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-diabetes-kidney-disease-treatment
For the first time, scientists used an atomic nucleus as a clock.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-clock-atomic-nucleus-first
Would you welcome a parasite into your gut? What if it were making a drug to improve your health?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/engineered-hookworms-drugs-gut-genetics
Permafrost keeps many things on ice in the Yukon. And some of those preserved things are ancient squirrel burrows and the squirrel feces inside them.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frozen-squirrel-poop-ice-age-ecosystems
Decades of research has shown that describing past experiences get harder with age. But older adults’ recollections appear to be richer when assessed in everyday contexts than in the lab.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/older-adults-memory-loss-outside-lab
Lifestyle or DNA? In people with mutations that drive cardiovascular disease, sleep and exercise may blunt the impact of those gene changes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-exercise-genetic-heart-disease
The stratosphere holds plenty of tiny single-celled microbes that somehow navigate extreme dehydration, frigid temperatures and intense radiation that would kill most life on the surface.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-stratosphere-life-microbes
By simply hearing their parents’ song, zebra finch embryos start making last minute changes to their brains to prepare for hot weather on the other side of the eggshell.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/songs-prep-unhatched-finches-hot-world
Chewing gum made from mastic resin is a Greek staple that has some benefits for the mouth and gut. But it won’t change your face shape.
Well-known microbes that grow on our crops, our gardens, even our skin have been found thriving at two to three times the flying height of a commercial jetliner.
