https://www.inverse.com/health/microplastics-human-testicle-study

A recent study published in Toxicological Sciences has found microplastics in yet another body part: testicles.

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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovakias-prime-minister-injured-shooting-110259097

Slovakia’s populist prime minister has been shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event

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https://gizmodo.com/raw-milk-sales-up-bird-flu-h5n1-tiktok-usda-cdc-fda-1851476916

Pasteurization kills H5N1, but raw milk has "high concentrations" of the virus. Please don't drink raw milk.

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https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cells-hidden-communication.html

Cells constantly navigate a dynamic environment, facing ever-changing conditions and challenges. But how do cells swiftly adapt to these environmental fluctuations?

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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fake-beaches-popping-online-blame-204500945.html

A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, church parking lots, and golf courses. And the community knows who to blame: Pokémon Go players trying to catch a rare new creature.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68942123

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

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https://theconversation.com/computer-science-culture-often-means-anybodys-data-is-fair-game-to-feed-the-ai-algorithm-but-artists-are-fighting-back-228572

Daniel Angus, a professor of digital communication, explains how artists are trying out data poisoning to protect their intellectual property. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/colombia-president-petro-says-will-break-diplomatic-relations-with-israel-2024-05-01/

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday he will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.

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https://gizmodo.com/mutated-strains-drug-resistant-bacteria-iss-1851416863

It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.

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https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404030001

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7:58 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA).

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https://www.noemamag.com/inside-the-feminist-revolution-in-northern-syria

A ‘utopian’ society promoting gender equality continues to rise from the ashes of ISIS — despite ongoing Turkish attacks.

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https://www.noemamag.com/the-artists-digitally-liberating-colonial-plunder

Artists around the world are “stealing” back looted artifacts, creating unauthorized digital versions in an effort to return the works to their rightful heirs.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-tardigrade-proteins-into-human-cells-heres-what-happened

Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/melting-polar-ice-sheets-are-slowing-earths-rotation-that-could-change-how-we-keep-time-180984046

As ice melts into water and flows toward the equator, it redistributes mass around the Earth, affecting the planet's spin, a new study finds

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https://futurism.com/the-byte/high-percentage-stars-eaten-planet

Research shows that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems are less common than believed.

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https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20240322-israel-unveils-big-west-bank-land-seizure-as-blinken-visits

The Israeli government announced Friday it was confiscating 800 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest such seizure in decades.

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https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20240322-senegal-s-presidential-election-a-look-at-the-four-main-candidates

After a political crisis with many twists and turns, Senegalese voters go to the polls on Sunday to choose their new president. Seventeen contenders are hoping to succeed President Macky Sall. FRANCE…

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A New Version of Dengue Is Plaguing Florida: 'Unprecedented' Outbreaks
  • carturo222 carturo222 8mo ago 100%

    @MedicPigBabySaver

    Mod here. Please don't wish mass death on anyone.

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  • Oxygen Could Be Even More Critical to Alien Civilizations Than We Thought
  • carturo222 carturo222 1y ago 100%

    To be fair, the article doesn't say lack of oxygen equals no life, only that certain technologies demand oxygen.

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  • Hayden Christensen’s Star Wars redemption is complete
  • carturo222 carturo222 1y ago 100%

    So the maxim is do whatever it takes to pretend the prequels weren't terrible, eh?

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  • [m/newsdom] [owner] I read the world's newspapers and post what most matters from everywhere
  • carturo222 carturo222 1y ago 100%

    I don't have an explicit rule. Something like "New opera premieres in Rome" is not very consequential, while "New opera premieres in Antarctica" would be, and "New opera explodes in Rome" might get so quickly reported that it doesn't need my contribution.

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