Category: Science

Is Vegetable Flavoured Ice Cream the New Way to Get Your Vitamins?

June 6, 2023
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Vegetable-flavoured gelatos starring cauliflower and pumpkin have stirred up heated debates this week at Australia and New Zealand’s largest horticulture conference and trade show, Hort Connections, where innovative businesses used foods that would’ve otherwise been thrown away to address food waste. Three thousand attendees there sampled two flavours that were a harmonious combination of salty…

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Australia to Create a Marine Park Bigger Than Japan

June 6, 2023
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Australia is set to triple the size of its marine park on Macquarie Island, making it far larger than Japan. After rejecting an application for fisheries to trawl through the new Macquarie Island Marine Park, Australia’s federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek signed off on a final design for the expansion on June 5, which will allow two fisheries to continue operating. Local fisheries…

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Former Intelligence Official Says Congress Being Kept in the Dark About ‘Nonhuman’ Aircraft

June 6, 2023
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An Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer has come forward alleging that classified information about the government’s possession of nonhuman craft is being illegally withheld from Congress. David Grusch, 36, was a decorated combat officer in Afghanistan and is a former intelligence officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office…

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Extinct Hominins Buried Their Dead, Carved Symbols 100,000 Years Before Homo Sapiens

June 6, 2023
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A team of researchers have found new evidence suggesting that an extinct hominin species buried their dead and made symbols as part of meaning-making behaviors, actions which were until now thought to be exclusive to larger-brained hominins like Homo sapiens. The hominin is a member of the zoological tribe hominini. Only a single species of…

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Experiment Drug Touted as Breakthrough for Intractable Brain Cancer

June 6, 2023
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A new experimental drug therapy has shown some promising signs of slowing down the progression of a type of brain cancer by more than 16 months on average. French drug developer Servier Labratories released results of a new medication that may become one of the earliest targeted therapies for a type of brain tumor affecting adults…

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House GOP Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State

June 5, 2023
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After repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in legislation, House Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5 Rules Committee hearing. “The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It’s here…

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House Republicans Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State

June 5, 2023
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After repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in existing legislation, House Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5 Rules Committee hearing. “The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It’s…

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Health Expert Says Most Dangerous Food is Not Red Meat

June 5, 2023
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If you google for the unhealthiest food, red meat and processed meat will represent an overwhelming portion of the results, but one crispy snack might be among the most dangerous snacks you could possibly eat, according to Dr. Eric Berg, a chiropractor and renowned health author specialising in intermittent fasting and healthy ketosis. The World Health…

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Environmentalist Group Calls on Banks to Set ‘Deforestation’ Targets

June 4, 2023
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The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says banks should consider attaching “deforestation” conditions on loans in a proposal most likely to impact farmers. The ACF claimed that over 200,000 hectares of koala-inhabited habitat in Queensland, Australia, were destroyed in the past 10 years and that over 364,000 hectares of native vegetation were cleared from 2018 to…

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Our Brain Shape Matters May Matter More Than We Think

June 4, 2023
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The human brain is often regarded as an unfathomable enigma, and while science knows that our brain function is a result of the transmission of signals between connected billions of neurons, it has now found what influences those transmissions is actually the shape of our brain. For decades scientists subscribed to the hypothesis that the…

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