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Mount Everest Air Offers Clues to Parkinson’s Treatment
Low-oxygen air both prevented and reversed symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists at the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have discovered that placing mice with Parkinson’s-like disease in a low-oxygen environment, similar to the air at Mount Everest base camp, can protect brain cells and even restore movement. The study, published […] Source link
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Kalshi Bettors Predict Gemini Will Be Top AI Model of 2025
Bettors on Kalshi, a prediction market, forecast that Google’s Gemini will emerge as the top artificial intelligence text model by the end of 2025. The positions reflect the ongoing developments of Gemini’s competitors as the large language model (LLM) race heats up. Since Tuesday, Gemini has taken a commanding lead with 57% of users betting on the model, up from…
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Kiwi family move to Australia to get cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta for daughter
Adalyn Delaney was suffering the effects of CF before she was even born, with health staff discovering during a scan that she had a bowel obstruction. The moment she was born, she had to be rushed away to surgery. Adalyn Delaney, 4, moved to Australia with her family, including 1-year-old Emily Delaney, to access Trikafta. Adalyn had to have two…
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Responsive parenting may help reduce behaviors linked to childhood obesity
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One in five children in the United States has obesity, which is a significant predictor of chronic health problems later in life. Infants who gain excessive weight prior to their second birthday are at an increased risk of developing obesity in childhood, especially those who are encouraged to finish all of their food even after expressing…
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12 Most Innovative Slasher Films Of All Time
Slasher movies have a glorious history of reinvention and rejuvenation. A horror subgenre known for high kill counts and creative deaths, slasher as a genre is often rightly associated with the films – made mostly in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s – that involve a masked killer terrorizing a group of people by killing them in truly brutal fashion. Over…
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War 2 Crashes On Monday; Hrithik Roshan and Jr. NTR’s flick Sees A Massive 75% Drop –
In an evolving world, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: War 2 sees a huge Monday Drop: Hrithik Roshan and Jr. NTR’s much-awaited action entertainer War 2 opened with decent but underwhelming numbers at the box office, but the film has now seen a huge fall in…
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Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction could be coming soon
Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone wants to wear prescription glasses or contact lenses. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands of people undergo corrective eye surgery each year, including LASIK — a laser-assisted surgery that reshapes the cornea and corrects vision. The procedure can result in negative side effects, prompting researchers to take the…
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Trump, Zelenskyy open to Putin talks as Europe pushes ceasefire: Live updates
Germany’s Merz: ‘Can’t imagine’ next meeting occurs ‘without a ceasefire’ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other European leaders amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025. Alexander Drago | Reuters Merz says that all of the…
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Mississippi sends National Guard troops to DC for Trump federal crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joining forces from three other Republican-led states, the Mississippi National Guard will deploy 200 troops to Washington as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing federal policing and immigration overhaul in the nation’s capital. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement Monday that he has approved the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington,…
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Researchers capture first 3D real-time images of human embryo implantation
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in collaboration with the Dexeus University Hospital have captured unparalleled images of a human embryo implanting. This is the first time that the process has been recorded…
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