The earlier that Alzheimer’s disease and other similar conditions can be spotted, the better the treatment options are, and scientists have discovered a blood biomarker that could signal the risk of dementia many years...
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Experts Say Decades of Recycling Hype Has Backfired Dramatically : ScienceAlert
You’ve just finished a cup of coffee at your favorite cafe. Now you’re facing a trash bin, a recycling bin and a compost bin. What’s the most planet-friendly thing to do with your cup?...
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Did a Study Say Scientists ‘Failed For Decades’ to Share Climate Risks? Here’s The Truth : ScienceAlert
A political news site recently accused scientists of failing to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. But the research they were covering falls far short of any such claims. Even worse, this kind...
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Global Ecosystems Risk Collapsing Decades Before We Predicted : ScienceAlert
Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” like these in more...
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American Kids’ Math Ability Has Gone Backward by Decades : ScienceAlert
American 13-year-olds continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic, especially in mathematics, according to official data out Wednesday. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project that has been monitoring...
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These Companies Kept Silent About ‘Forever Chemicals’ For Decades : ScienceAlert
Secretly held documents from the two most prominent manufacturers of ‘forever chemicals’ show that industry leaders knew of the harmful health effects of some per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) long before they told the...
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Forgotten Antibiotic From Decades Ago Could Be a Superbug Killer : ScienceAlert
An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Half of the bacteria-killing drugs we use...
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Tuberculosis Deaths Creep Upwards After Falling For Decades in Europe : ScienceAlert
The number of tuberculosis deaths in Europe is on the rise again after declining for almost two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. TB killed 27,300 Europeans in 2021 compared to...
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Strange Signal From Decades Ago Hints at Hidden Oceans Orbiting Uranus : ScienceAlert
There might be some hidden oceans lurking around Uranus. New evidence suggests that one or two of the gas giant’s 27 known moons might be harboring liquid oceans beneath their crusty rock-and-ice exteriors. The...
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‘Time Reflections’ Finally Observed by Physicists After Decades of Searching : ScienceAlert
Walk through a maze of mirrors, you’ll soon come face to face with yourself. Your nose meets your nose, your fingertips touch at their phantom twins, stopped abruptly by a boundary of glass. Most...
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