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Jan 29 2025HEALTH

How Often Seeing Your Doctor Can Help Control Type 2 Diabetes

Imagine being one of the many people in the world dealing with type 2 diabetes. It's a health condition where your body doesn't respond well to insulin, leading to high blood sugar levels. Managing this disease takes more than just lifestyle changes and medications—regular check-ups with your doctor

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Jan 29 2025ENTERTAINMENT

Meet Grant, The Bachelor with a Surprise Twist

Welcome to the debut of Grant Ellis's season of The Bachelor! After a tough few months, we're all craving something straightforward. Grant seems like just the guy to deliver that. He’s a bit like your favorite snack on a lazy afternoon. Grant is all about finding a wife and starting a family AS

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Jan 29 2025POLITICS

Vaccine Debates: A Look at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's Confirmation Hearing

Buzz about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's past statements on vaccines is spreading fast ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing for a big job. He wants to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Newsweek tried to get a comment from Kennedy himself. This situation matters because President D

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Jan 29 2025HEALTH

Revolutionizing Kidney Scans: A New Way to See Kids' Insides

Imagine trying to see what's happening inside a child's kidneys. Traditional scans can be tricky, but combining a special way of injecting contrast dye with a super cool scanning technology called dual-energy CT (DECT) is making a big difference. This method, known as split-bolus contrast injection,

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Jan 28 2025SCIENCE

Love Life and Longevity: How Mating Affects Predatory Mites

Ever wondered how mating impacts the lifespan and baby-making abilities of tiny predators? A recent study dived into the world of Phytoseiulus persimilis, a mighty mite that feasts on spider mites. Researchers looked at how often these mites get to mate, when they first do it, and how experienced th

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Jan 28 2025CRIME

The Unrealized Zodiac Documentary: A Filmmaker’s True-Crime Lament

When Charles Shackleton's meticulously planned documentary on the Zodiac killer was abruptly canceled, he turned his frustration into a fascinating confession. Dubbed “Zodiac Killer Project, ” the filmmaker shares his potential masterpiece's outline. It's a critique of the true-crime genre's formula

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Jan 28 2025ENVIRONMENT

Fatty Acids in Dolphins and Porpoises: A Warning Signal

In the busy waters of the northern South China Sea, scientists have been studying something unusual happening to dolphins and porpoises. They found high levels of something called organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) in these marine mammals. These OHCs can mess with the body's fatty acid (FAs) levels,

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Jan 28 2025POLITICS

Trump's First Days: New Orders on Transgender Troops, COVID Mandates, and More

President Trump is kicking off his administration with a series of executive orders. One of these orders asks the Pentagon to figure out a new policy for transgender troops in the military. This order doesn't immediately ban transgender people from serving but asks for a review based on military rea

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Jan 28 2025SPORTS

Shakur Stevenson's New Attitude: Is Boxing Politics Getting in the Way?

Boxing fans are feeling betrayed after Shakur Stevenson recently expressed his disinterest in becoming an undisputed champion. In an interview, the 27-year-old boxer admitted that titles and legacy don't matter much to him anymore. Stevenson's shift in perspective has raised eyebrows, especially sin

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Jan 28 2025SCIENCE

Building a Better Phantom: A Tetrahedral Mesh for Chinese Women

Creating detailed surface phantoms of Chinese women of childbearing age is great, but they can't be used directly in Monte Carlo simulations. Instead, these surface phantoms have to be turned into voxel phantoms, which might lose some of their initial advantages. So, the goal of this study is to bui

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