Guilty pleasure? More like superfood. The researchers conducted a combined analysis of studies from the past five decades that looked for links between eating chocolate and coronary artery disease, which included data from more than 336,000 participants who reported their consumption of chocolate. And those who ate chocolate more than …
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A bottle of generic aspirinPhoto: Tim boyle (fake pictures) Some inactive ingredients commonly found in medications may not be as inactive after all, according to a new study published today. The researchers found evidence in the laboratory that various ingredients, including certain dyes and preservatives, are capable of affecting proteins, …
Read More »Chances of seeing the NEOWISE comet quickly fade
If you haven’t seen Comet NEOWISE yet, time is running out. Although the comet will be closer to Earth tonight (Thursday night), it is actually already weaker than last week because it has been away from the sun since the beginning of the month. It is still visible to the …
Read More »Sony Reon Pocket personal air conditioner, a portable cooling device
Finally, a device that allows us to declare a small but unconditional victory over the oppressive heat of summer: a personal and portable air conditioning that hides in your shirt and promises to lower your internal temperature, even if it is not exactly to superhero levels. when you challenge the …
Read More »“We want a stable dollar,” says US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: “It is the world’s reserve currency and we are going to protect that.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
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