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From An 8 Percent Jewish Guy | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two interesting things: I am both 8 percent Jewish and 8 percent Middle Eastern. My maternal great grandmother was German Jewish and my paternal grandfather had roots in Tunisia. Be that as it may, finding this ...

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Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a 'key in a lock' | Nadishka Jayawardena

A cryo-EM map of the receptor decorated capsid in which a single protomer was replaced with the atomic model. Seneca Valley Virus capsid proteins are shown in blue, green, and red, and the ANTXR1 rec ...

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Antibiotics are 'avoidable trigger' for bowel disease | Elizabeth Mann

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 25, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Scientists at The University of Manchester have shown for the first time how antibiotics can predispose the gut to avoidable infections that ...

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Antarctic Ocean carbon dioxide helped end the Ice Age | J. W. B. Rae

Deep-sea coral – data was generated on deep-sea corals from 1000m below the sea surface in the Antarctic Ocean. Credit: University of Bristol Oct. 25, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A team of scientists, led by ...

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Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise | Joseph Marks

Oct. 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being more expert in fields complet ...

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Research shows signaling mechanism in the brain shapes social aggression | Shawn Tan

Credit: Martha Sexton/public domain Oct. 19, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Duke-NUS researchers have discovered that a growth factor protein, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and its recept ...

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Males have greater reproductive success if they spend more time taking care of kids | Stacy Rosenbaum

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 15, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Males have greater reproductive success if they spend more time taking care of kids -- and not necessarily only their own, according to new resea ...

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Too much sleep bad for brain, study says | Conor Wild

Credit: University of Western Ontario Oct. 9, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours ...

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A break from the buzz—bees go silent during total solar eclipse | Candace Galen

A study conducted during the 2017 total solar eclipse in North America found that bees remained active during the partial-eclipse phases both before and after the period of totality, but they essenti ...

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Global warming will hike mental health woes, study finds | Nick Obradovich

Oct. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mental health problems will increase as temperatures rise due to climate change, a new study warns. The researchers said that over five years, a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degr ...

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Researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard | Markus Gross

The 5G mobile radio standard still needs to be improved. Image: europeansanctions.com Oct. 10, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile comm ...

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