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Study found gut bacteria that could be linked to depression, even among different ethnicities. The team looked at the variety of gut bugs in 1,054 participants in the Netherlands, & found 13 microbial families associated with depressive symptoms, such as Eggerthella, Subdoligranulum & Coprococcus.
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In the 2016 election in the US, residents of black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend 30+ minutes at their polling place (relative to white neighborhoods). This disparity holds when comparing white and black polling places within the same states and counties.
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The world's current climate pledges are insufficient to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. We will overshoot. In new research, scientists chart several potential courses in which the overshoot period is shortened, in some cases by decades.
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COVID vaccine hoarding might have cost more than a million lives. More than one million lives might have been saved if COVID-19 vaccines had been shared more equitably with lower-income countries in 2021, according to mathematical models incorporating data from 152 countries
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USA sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder. Believing that sexually satisfied men could not be easily motivated, the aim of this teasing was to generate unmet sexual desire, which the War Department could leverage as motivation to fight
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