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Jan 06 2025LIFESTYLE

Black and Mixed Women: Beauty, Desirability, and Skin Tone

Colourism, where people face disadvantages due to darker skin and features less associated with whiteness, divides communities and affects relationships. This exploration delves into how beauty and desirability standards based on skin shade can set Black and mixed Black-White women apart. Within ra

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Jan 06 2025TECHNOLOGY

Smart Mirror Omnia: Your Health in a Reflection

Ever dreamed of a mirror that can tell you more about your health than just how you look? Withings' Omnia mirror is here to make that dream a reality. This futuristic device doesn't just show you your reflection; it provides a comprehensive health check-up. By combining data from Withings' connected

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Jan 06 2025HEALTH

Life Changes and Migration: How Adversity Drives Us Home

Ever wondered how big life changes like divorce or job loss affect where we live? It turns out, they can push us to move, especially back to familiar places or towards family. This isn't just a one-time thing; these moves can happen right after the event or even years later. Researchers in the US lo

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Jan 06 2025TECHNOLOGY

Exploring DOGE: A Leap in Visual Document Understanding

You know how sometimes we struggle to understand the tiny details in documents? Think of a chart with lots of numbers or a PDF with complex texts. That's where multimodal large language models (MLLMs) come in. They're supposed to help us make sense of these things, but they've been falling short, es

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Jan 06 2025HEALTH

Healthy Together: Pakistan's Quest for One Health

One Health is all about understanding that humans, animals, and the environment are connected. This study looked into how Pakistan's health system is handling this idea. Researchers talked to 17 key people from different fields like public health, agriculture, and veterinary medicine. They found tha

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Jan 06 2025SCIENCE

The Power of AtbZIP69: Enhancing Wheat's Stress Tolerance

Scientists have turned to a tiny gene, AtbZIP69, to create tougher wheat plants. By inserting this gene into a specific wheat variety, they’ve made these plants much better at handling low nitrogen and drought conditions. When faced with stress, these genetically altered wheat plants showed increase

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Jan 06 2025TECHNOLOGY

Tech Glasses with AI: What’s the Big Deal?

Listen up, tech fans! Halliday Glasses are the latest buzz in smart eyewear. These specs come with a tiny screen hidden in the frame, displaying info right in front of your eyes. You’ll see a 3. 5-inch screen in the top right corner of your view, and it won’t block much of your vision. Plus, it work

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Jan 05 2025HEALTH

Understanding How Stroke Patients with Spastic Hemiplegia Move Between Sitting and Standing

Ever wondered how stroke patients with spastic hemiplegia manage to sit down and stand up? Researchers took a closer look at the forces acting on their hip, knee, and ankle joints during these movements. They wanted to figure out how these forces relate to the moments created by these joints. Spasti

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Jan 05 2025HEALTH

Fighting Obesity's Side Effects: Can Feruloylacetone Help?

Obesity can make muscles weak and resistant to insulin. This is known as sarcopenic obesity, and there's no cure yet besides changing your lifestyle and diet. Feruloylacetone (FER) and demethoxyferuloylacetone (DFER) are compounds found in the breakdown of curcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin. They mig

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Jan 05 2025POLITICS

NYC's Top Education Lawyer Backs Migrant Aid, Sparking Debate

Elizabeth Vladeck, the New York City Department of Education's (DOE) top lawyer, is asking people to donate to a non-profit that helps migrants fight deportation. This has some people wondering if she's going against Mayor Adams' plans to work with President-elect Donald Trump. Vladeck posted a mes

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