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Skin Bleaching: How Lead Cosmetics Poisoned 18th-Century European Socialites
Eighteenth-century socialites have been depicted as vain, silly women who were poisoned by their white lead makeup. The Countess of Coventry, Maria Gunning — a society hostess renowned for her beauty — is said to have refused to stop wearing foundation containing white lead, even as she lay dying. Why would women of that era knowingly choose to wear makeup that was killing them? Was beauty worth dying for? Or was the makeup not to blame?
ATLAS Results On Bose-Einstein Correlations
How Early Humans Lived, Loved, And Traveled In Ancient Africa
The study also reanalyzed published data from 28 individuals buried at sites across the continent, generating new and improved data for 15 of them. The dataset of DNA from ancient African foragers reveals a genetic legacy difficult to reconstruct from present-day people because of the many population movements and mixtures that have occurred in the last few thousand years.
Heat Waves Linked To Emergency Mental Health Issues
The paper correlated days with higher-than-normal temperatures during the summer season in the United States to increased rates of emergency department (ED) visits for any mental health-related condition, particularly substance use, anxiety and stress disorders, and mood disorders.
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Get A Source
Mutated Stem Cell Transplant Cured HIV
On TV, Government Law Enforcement Can Do No Wrong, But In Reality Databases Are Wrong Nearly 20% Of The Time
The first part is real, the last is certainly fiction. A new study finds that not only is a government database wrong, it is wrong to an extent that is worrisome when we want people to have more trust in law enforcement agencies.
The Fight To Protect Personal Data May Not Be Won In Software, It May Be Won On The Chip
Erika Girardi, Wife Of Discredited 'Erin Brockovich' Lawyer, Named In New $2.1 Million Lawsuit For 'Aiding and Abetting'
Unless You're The Hulk, You Can't Open A Plane Door During Flight
Drew Barrymore, the heroine in that scene, is about 5'4" and maybe 120 lbs. soaking wet. She couldn't have done that. At 6'2" and 100 lbs. heavier, neither could I. It's great cinema but terrible physics.
Weight Gain Lowers Self-Worth, But Those In Middle Age See It As Inevitable
In youth, attractiveness can be dismissed as genetics. Later on it becomes inevitable due to age.
COVID-19: It Increased Trust In Science Among Germans And Lowered It Among Americans
Discovering Beauty
Immune Systems And Ketones Are Working Even When You Are Healthy
Biologically, nature is always trying to kill things, we are just evolved enough to dismiss most without issues, but your immune system is working even when you feel fine. A recent paper highlights how the immune system even causes the liver of the healthy body to produce an energy source called ketone bodies and how that takes place by letting the liver burn fat during fasting.
How Climate Change Impacted Diets Over 7,000 Years
Happy Darwin Day: He Wasn't A One-Hit Wonder With Natural Selection, He Also Wrote How Expressions Evolved
Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species change: natural selection, or “design without a designer”.
However, a book of Darwin’s that is little read by modern evolutionists – The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals – turns out to contain valuable lessons for scientists seeking to understand how and why humans do what we do.
VR Nature Imagery Can Reduce Stress
The Proton Radius Puzzle May Have Been Solved
Protons are the fundamental subatomic particles. Under the Standard Model, we know that protons are composite particles with three valence quarks, which, along with neutrons, form hardons.
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In The World Capital Of Preterm Births, A Solution From The Candy Aisle
Due to correlation between preterm births and poor oral care, researchers have looked at various ways to improve dental health during pregnancy, including “deep-teeth cleaning” like scaling and planing to remove plaque and tarter on the teeth and below the gum line, but that hasn't seemed to be very effective.