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Obesity increases the risk of health problems such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and several types of cancer. New research suggests it may also accelerate brain aging. In 2022, 16% of people around the world had obesity.
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2 years ago Read more at Medical News Today

Southern California sheriff's deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues. The teen was being transferred from a hospital, where he had been treated after cutting himself, to a mental health facility. A video and still images of the encounter showed the teen holding a knife, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

bacterial cellulose is produced by certain bacteria of the genus Komagataeibacter. Researchers grew this shoe from bacteria in a shoe-shaped mold. This stimulated the production of black pigment eumelanin.
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2 years ago Read more at IFLScience

Astronomers named it 1I/’Oumuamua, borrowing a Hawaiian word that roughlytranslates to “messenger from afar arriving first” Two years later, in August 2019, amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov discovered the only other known interstellar interloper, now called 2I/Borisov, using a self-built telescope at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea.
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2 years ago Read more at EL PAÍS USA

In 2019, about four million people watched Baylor beat Notre Dame for the women’s championship title. The discrepancy was so great that its meaning seemed obvious, at least to most people. It was why the phrase “college basketball” always meant men’s college basketball, why men were always the default. This season, the biggest phenomenon in all of college sports, football included, is Iowa’s superstar Caitlin Clark.
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2 years ago Read more at The New Yorker

LaTocha Scott is one-fourth of the iconic R&B group Xscape. She has taken legal action against Mona Scott Young and Live Nation over the group’s upcoming tour with SWV.
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2 years ago Read more at The Source Magazine

Rutgers basketball season has been over for less than a month. Six players for last year's team have already entered the transfer portal. There is still more activity to come as the new roster is taking shape.
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2 years ago Read more at 247Sports

a war of attrition is meant to create the conditions to drain, exhaust and weaken an opponent. The feeling of numbness, of paralysis among Palestinians is one of the aims of the Israeli “attrition” strategy. As the Israeli conquest of Palestinian lands, resources and lives intensified, so did Palestinian struggle. I wrote a piece for the Guardian titled Why are Palestinians protesting?
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2 years ago Read more at Al Jazeera English

Nita A. Farahany will speak at 7 p.m. Monday in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center, 200 N. University St., Normal. Other programs scheduled for Science and Technology Week include Tuesday morning networking and lunchtime discussions.
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2 years ago Read more at The Pantagraph

Shane Bieber will undergo surgery to reconstruct the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, the Cleveland Guardians announced Saturday. The procedure, to be performed by Dallas orthopedic surgeon Dr. Keith Meister, has not yet been scheduled. He will miss the remainder of the season.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Sports