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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing that current methods fail to.

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U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments

January 10, 2025 3 min read U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments TikTok is on the clock: ByteDance, the app’s China-based owner, must sell it by January.

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Heliophysics Is Set to Shine in 2025

January 3, 2025 3 min read Heliophysics Is Set to Shine in 2025 The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that.

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For the New Year, the FDA Is Changing What Foods Can Be Called ‘Healthy’

Until now, an orange couldn’t be called healthy, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The fruit has 70 calories, three grams of fiber and more than 100 percent of.

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How Feminism Can Guide Climate Change Action

This year is projected to be the hottest on record. The latest United Nations estimates indicate that, without radical and immediate action, we are headed toward an increasingly unlivable planet.

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Creating ‘Mirror Life’ Could Be Disastrous, Scientists Warn

A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose unprecedented risks to human life and ecosystems, according to a.

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Wuhan Lab Sequences Reveal No Close COVID Relatives, Virologist Says

December 6, 2024 3 min read Wuhan Virologist Says Lab Has No Close Relatives to COVID Virus Shi Zhengli, the virologist at the center of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from.

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Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths

November 29, 2024 5 min read Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the.

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Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again

CLIMATEWIRE | Eight years ago, as the Trump administration was getting ready to take office for the first time, mathematician John Baez was making his own preparations. Together with a.

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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50

A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves. It was November 16, 1974—a turbulent time on planet Earth. The.

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