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HealthExperts Find Strong Case for Over-The-Counter Oral Contraceptives for Adults and Teens. A team of pediatric, adolescent, and women’s health experts concludes that regulatory, behavioral and scientific evidence supports switching oral contraceptives from prescription-only status to OTC availability. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
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Solar Astronomers AMAScience AMA series: We’re scientists at NASA studying the sun, planets and solar system; ask us anything about the spring equinox (happening today), the sun and the total solar eclipse in August 2017! (self.science)
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MedicineAn innovative new drug, Evolocumab, can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol to unprecedented levels on a background of statin therapy, in a large randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 27,564 patients published in the NEJM. (nejm.org)
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Forest restoration AMAScience AMA Series: We are a team of ESF scientists who developed a way to make American chestnut trees resistant to the blight that virtually wiped out the species 100 years ago. We’ll talk about how we can help restore this iconic tree to our forests. AUA! (self.science)
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AstronomyAstronomers observe a dying red giant star’s final act as it sheds most of its gaseous bulk in a strong, outflowing wind. They observed a striking spiral pattern in the gas surrounding a red giant star named LL Pegasi and its companion star 3,400 light-years from Earth. (newsroom.ucla.edu)
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Earth ScienceScientists have discovered 4.2 billion-year-old remnants of the Earth’s first crust (science.sciencemag.org)
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AstronomyHubble Space Telescope discovers a runaway star that helps explain the breakup of a multiple-star system in the Orion Nebula (nasa.gov)
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PhysicsEuropeans evolved to eat more vegetables several thousand years ago (arstechnica.com)
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NeuroscienceTransient oxytocin signaling primes the development and function of excitatory hippocampal neurons: "oxytocin controls development of hippocampal excitatory neurons and contributes to the maintenance of a physiological excitation/inhibition balance, disruption can cause neurobehavioral disturbances" (elifesciences.org)
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MedicineHepatitis C mutations ‘outrun’ immune systems, lab study shows (outbreaknewstoday.com)
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MedicinePaper strip test determines blood type in just 30 seconds that could be quickly performed at a patient’s bedside without specialised training or equipment. (newscientist.com)
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CancerGenetically modified viruses that selectively attack tumor cells without affecting healthy tissues, by exploiting the different expression profiles of certain proteins between tumor and healthy cells, demonstrated by researchers in a study published in Nature Communications. (nature.com)
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HealthImproving your sleep makes you feel as good as a lottery winner – leading to high levels of health and wellbeing over time - say University of Warwick psychologists. Quality of sleep more important than quantity for optimal health and happiness, based on sleep analysis of 30,500 people over 4 years. (warwick.ac.uk)
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Animal ScienceWater bears turn into glass to survive complete dehydration (newscientist.com)
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