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Why do we have to die? We are getting older and older. While women in this country can count on just over 81 years of age and men reach around 75 years, life expectancy will increase significantly again until 2050. But despite this tendency, our earthly stay is finite. But why do we have to
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Foldscope was invented by Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski while Jim was a PhD student in Manu’s laboratory at Stanford University. Their inspiration for the Foldscope originated from field visits around the world, where they continually encountered bulky, broken microscopes, or a lack of microscopes entirely. As traditional microscopes are often expensive or cumbersome, they
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Food intolerances are not the same as food allergies, but it seems a lot of people mistake one for the other. A study published January 4 in the journal JAMA Network Open found that about half of US adults who think they have a food allergy actually don’t. Instead, the authors said, those people who think they’re allergic might be
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How to make a great thing even better One way to make coconut oil even more useful is to enrich it with the medicinal properties of cannabis. Coconut oil is rich in naturally saturated fats, which increases HDL (good cholesterol) in the body and helps convert LDL (bad cholesterol) into HDL, a vital component of
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Of course it’s impossible, but here’s the whole task was scientifically addressed, and shows how it would be if the movie Downsizing with Matt Daemon would be reality