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a fasting-mimicking diet can rejuvenate the immune system and reduce metabolic risk factors in humans, making them biologically younger by following a specific five-day diet that mimics the effects of fasting. The study analyzed the impact of this diet on two populations of clinical trial patients, including men and women aged 18 to 70 years. Patients subjected to this diet underwent 3 to 4 cycles.
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2 years ago Read more at Techno-Science.net

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is facing a lot of heat as Gemini AI rollout didn't go as planned. Analyst Ben Thompson has said that Google needs a major shift in culture. Google has spent $2.1 billion in layoffs last year as it fired 12,000 employees.
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2 years ago Read more at Times Now

ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organisation, is one of the leading space agencies in the world. It has achieved many milestones in space exploration and technology. There are many facts about ISRO that are not widely known or appreciated.
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2 years ago Read more at The Times of India

Exact Sciences Corp (NASDAQ:EXAS) Director Daniel Levangie sells 5,000 shares on March 1, 2024. The transaction was executed at a price of $57.5 per share, resulting in a total sale amount of $287,500. Exact Technologies Corp is a molecular diagnostics company focused on the early detection and prevention of some of the deadliest forms of cancer.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Scientists at the University of Maryland and National Institutes of Health solved the puzzle – and it's linked to both red blood cells and the pigment that causes the yellowing of the skin in jaundice. It could also help to unlock further understanding of how microbes in our gut are linked to human health, the researchers said.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo News UK

Senior Research Scientist at Google Vinodkumar Prabhakaran gave a lecture on Artificial Intelligence. The lecture was organized by the student group Code_Wes and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Students were enthusiastic about the talk and hope to employ these ideas in their future projects.
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2 years ago Read more at Wesleyan Argus

Madeleine Finlay meets Dr Julia Rohrer, a personality psychologist at the University of Leipzig, to unpick the science behind our intuition about birth order. How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know.
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2 years ago Read more at The Guardian

Scientists have developed a mathematical model that promises to optimise training for competitors in 400-metre and 1,500-metre athletics events. The model is based on performance data gathered from elite athletes including Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, Femke Bol and Matthew Hudson-Smith at the 2022 European Championships in Munich.
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2 years ago Read more at RFI English

Ira talks to comedians Chuck Nice, Kasha Patel, and Kyle Marian Viterbo about their work bringing the joke format to science communication. The experimentation is the joke itself, seeing whether or not it will get a laugh.
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2 years ago Read more at Science Friday

Federica Gigante, a researcher at Cambridge University’s history faculty, stumbled on a remarkable astrolabe that has passed through Muslim, Jewish and Christian hands in the 10 centuries since it was constructed in Andaluca. Its engravings, first in Arabic script, then in Hebrew, tell the story of how knowledge was created, shared and developed by Islamic and Jewish scholars living side by side in al-Andalus.
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2 years ago Read more at The Guardian