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Jan 06 2025HEALTH

How City Living Affects What We Eat: A Chinese Resettlement Experiment

Do you ever think about how living in a city might affect your food choices? A clever study in China used a unique approach to find out. Instead of relying on guesswork, researchers took advantage of a resettlement program that was decided by a lottery. This made it possible to compare what happened

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Jan 05 2025POLITICS

The Uncertain Future of January 6th Rioters: Will Trump’s Presidency Stop Prosecutions?

President Trump’s return isn’t until later this month, but it's already shaking up the Justice Department’s ongoing cases against the January 6th rioters. Over 1, 570 people have been arrested, making it the largest criminal probe in US history. However, the election results are making defendants de

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Jan 05 2025BUSINESS

Push and Pull: Biden Says No to Japanese Steel Deal, Workers Worry

President Biden recently blocked a Japanese company’s takeover of U. S. Steel, a move he claimed would preserve jobs in the steel industry. However, some steelworkers in Pennsylvania and Indiana aren’t happy. Nippon Steel had promised investments to upgrade aging blast furnaces and committed to no l

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Jan 05 2025POLITICS

Trump's New Team: Will They Bend to His Will?

On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the Electoral College votes. Pence said no, and that was the end of their useful relationship. Now, Trump is choosing key people for his second term. He wants folks who will do what he says, no matter what the rules are

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Jan 05 2025SCIENCE

Art and Science: A Unique Exhibit on Los Angeles' York Boulevard

On York Boulevard in Los Angeles, an unusual sight hangs on a dark wall: a blurred image of a black hole, accompanied by a pair of headphones playing echoes of its cosmic siblings' collisions. This isn't your typical black hole image; it's part of an art exhibit at the OXY ARTS gallery. The black ho

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Jan 05 2025HEALTH

Why “Health Security” Matters More Than Just “Public Health”

Imagine you're in a big, global classroom, and everyone is talking about how health issues are also big security problems. You might ask, “Why not just call it ‘public health’ and be done with it? ” The thing is, using the term “health security” has become super important in today's world, especiall

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Jan 04 2025BUSINESS

Japan Vows to Keep Trying for US Deals, Despite Steel Merger Block

Even after President Biden thwarted the plan of Japan's Nippon Steel to buy Pittsburgh's U. S. Steel, Japanese officials and business leaders remained steadfast in their pursuit of American deals. They warned that blocking such mergers could harm the economic partnership between the two countries. T

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Jan 04 2025ENVIRONMENT

Bird Flu Case in Delaware: What It Means for Maryland's Poultry Industry

A commercial flock of broiler chickens in Delaware has tested "presumptive" positive for H5 bird flu. This highly contagious virus is causing worry in the poultry industry, especially in nearby Maryland. The case was discovered in Kent County, just a week after a similar case was found in wild Snow

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Jan 04 2025POLITICS

Food Security and Costs: What Does Resilience Really Mean?

Have you ever wondered why everyone's talking about "resilience"? In the UK, the government uses this word a lot when discussing food security and high living costs. But what does it actually mean? And does it match what people think? To find out, we looked at government speeches and research fundin

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Jan 03 2025TECHNOLOGY

Check Your Chrome Extensions: 33 Are Stealing Data

Over the holiday season, while everyone was celebrating, a group of researchers discovered that 33 Chrome extensions in Google's Web Store had been stealing data for up to 18 months. These extensions affected around 2. 6 million devices. One such extension, used by 400, 000 people, was updated with

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