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About six or seven billion years ago, a massive star exploded, and its debris, containing (among other things) traces of gold, mercury, lead, and uranium, slammed into a cloud of gas and dust floating on the outskirts of the galaxy.

“Scientists at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna found that bacteria living inside a cow’s rumen – one of the four compartments of its stomach – can digest certain plastics, including those used to make

There is an ongoing concern about Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon’s control of our day-to-day lives. The government appears to be moving to address the issue through anti-monopoly rules that are a century old.

The researchers, reporting in PLOS One, set out looking at “honorific” street names – when a street maintains its positional name, like 161st Street and River Avenue, and gains another name, Mariano Rivera Avenue, in their honor.

“As of this past April, under a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act, health care providers are required to give all their patients electronic access to most kinds of medical notes.

“To harness this untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.

About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research site, searching for radioactivity from past research activities.

   

Dengue fever was the first disease that I was introduced to in medical school, at least during a lecture. It is also known as bone-break fever to give you just a sense of how painful an infectious disease it can be.

While initially covered by CNN, it has subsequently been covered by the print media as well, including the