Social determinants of health can match or exceed genetic risk of common diseases

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And how lugworms tweak the rules by pooping upside down

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Glycans, once ignored, may revolutionize medicine

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And it’s much hotter than previously thought

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A NASA astronaut Meir captured a stunning video of aurora australis

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The elusive creatures were thought to have vanished

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The remnants of a star that exploded 1,700 years ago

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But not for all women

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A new shark species just dropped

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A new in-depth analysis casts doubt on the popular supplements

The post If You’re Counting on Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements to Prevent Fractures, Think Again appeared first on Nautilus.

Only a handful of vaquitas exist in the wild, but now one is preserved in unprecedented digital detail

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It maintains the balance of the X chromosome

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A new meta-analysis stacks three leading GLP-1 medications against each other

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Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life

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They preceded vertebrates on land by about 80 million years

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And one of them was putting on a show

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Two of these mysterious sharks were recorded by deep-sea submersibles

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Two-thousand-year-old grape seeds yield viticultural insight in the Chianti wine region

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The Ice Age rodents left behind a lot to study

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A new map of global mycorrhizal fungi details the massive scope of the vital systems

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