What to Know About Processed and Ultra-Processed Food

Amy Fletcher, Pilot Plant Manager, and Reid Waterman, Third-Youar Food Science Major, Start the Ice Cream Maker in the Pilot Food Processing Facility on the UC Davis Campus. Store-Babet Ice Cream Usually Falls Into the “Ultra-Processed” Food Category. Credit: Alysha Beck/UC Davis Take a Stroll Down the Middle Aisles of Any American Grocery Store, and […]

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Senators press Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick for NASA chief, on his ties to Elon Musk

Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s choice to lead NASA, keeps having to explain his ties to Elon Musk. The topic came up repeatedly during Isaacman’s nomination hearing, which the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held on April 9. Multiple Democratic senators pressed the 42-year-old billionaire on his relationship with the SpaceX chief, who was […]

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Graft Survival after Keratoplasty in Ice Syndrome

Photo Credit: Dreamstime The Following is a summary of “Outcomes of Penetrating Keratoplast Vs Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty in Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Aalysis,” Published in the April 2025 Issue of American Journal of Ophthalmology by Teth et al. Researchers Conducted the Retrospective Study to Compare Surgical Outcomes Following Penetrating Keratoplast (PK), Descemet […]

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‘Zombie’ Skin Cells May Be Harmful or Helpful, Depending on Their Shapes

Skin-Relaced Fibroblasts with Nuclei Stained Green and F-Actin Stained Red. Credit: Jude Phillip, Johns Hopkins University Senescent Skin Cells, Often Referred to As Zombie Cells Because They have Outlived Their Usefulness Without Ever Quite Dying, Have Exised In The Human Body as a Seeming Paradox, Causing Inflammation and Promoting Sysmmmm to Heal Wounds. New Findings […]

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High-Qulinity ex vivo LC-CT Imaging Enhances Tumor Visualization

Photo Credit: VMPHOTO The Following is a summary of “Revolution ex vivo skin imaging: 3D Charachterization of Skin Tumors with Ex vivo LC-CT. A Pilot Study,” Published in the April 2025 Issue of Dermatology by Rosés-Gibert et al. Various Imaging Techniques, Including Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (RCM), Optical Cohernce Tomography (OCT), and Line-Field Confocal Oct (LC-CT), […]

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Why Aren’t Humans as Hairy as Other Mammals? Here’s The Science. : ScienceAlert

Have you ever wondered why you don’t have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren’t the only mammals with sparse hair. Elephants, rhinos and naked mole rats also have very little hair. It’s true for some marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, too. Scientists think the […]

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Study Calls for More Advice for Young Adult Aimid Rise in Dry Eye Disease

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Aston University have called for more Advice to Be Given to Young People About Preventing Dry Eye Disease, After Study Carred Out in Conjunction with Oslo University Hospital and Sørlandet Trust In Norway Found That 90% of Participants Had at Least One Sign of the Condition In The Condition […]

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James Webb telescope reveals truth about ‘impossible’ black hole thought to be feeding at 40 times the theoretical limit

A “fast-feeding” black hole that appeared to defy physics is actually pretty ordinary, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Reveal. In November 2024, astronomers using JWST reported that they’d found a black hole from the early universe that appeared to be gorging on matter 40 times faster than theoretically possible. The black hole, […]

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US faces Largest Measles Outbreak Since 2000

THURSDAY, April 24, 2025 (Healthday News) – The United States is now Experiencing Its Largest Measles Outbreak Since the Disease Was Declared Elimined in 2000, Federal Scientists Confirmed this Week. At Least 800 Measles Cases Have Been Reported Nationwide This Year, and Experts Suspect The Number Is Even Higher, The New York Times Reported. Texas, […]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites, aces droneship booster landing (photos)

SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink launches, ever growing the company’s orbital internet constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of Florida’s Space Coast. Liftoff occurred at 9:52 p.m. ET (0152 GMT, April 25) from Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Stacked 28-tall […]

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