Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first health diagnostic based on period blood, an at-home test for diabetes. Researchers are looking into what else menstrual blood can reveal about a person’s health.

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“Present day volcanism of the seafloor is highly unlikely,” said Austin Green, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “If this volcanism is necessary for habitability, Europa’s ocean is uninhabitable.”
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An analysis of the moon’s atmospheric composition suggests that it has been spewing sulfur for roughly 4.6 billion years.
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A gentle reminder there are few medications we commonly use in the ED that require pumping and dumping. Let’s support our breastfeeding patients! #breastfeeding #medicationsafety #AJEM #sciencenews #womenshealth Northwestern EM Northwestern Medicine

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In the 1970s, tests in pigeons hinted that birds can navigate using magnetic fields. New studies suggest that beak and eye proteins are behind the ability.

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Ancient 'Homo sapiens' fossils from China are rare. One example, a roughly 40,000-year-old partial skeleton that includes this lower jaw, comes from a cave located 56 kilometers southwest of Beijing.

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Viruses like COVID-19 jump from animals to humans and back again. One way to prevent these viral spillovers is to protect and restore places where animals eat and sleep.
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Proteins within the eyes of the European robin are sensitive to magnetic fields, research shows, suggesting that the bird can “see” Earth’s magnetic field and perhaps uses it to navigate.

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Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical recreation of the Blue Man Group than a regular human. Until it smiles.

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The unicellular algae Braarudospharea bigelowii is the first eukaryote known to fix nitrogen, thanks to its nitroplast organelle.

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A day after being submerged underwater for a week, bumblebee queens are “fluffy again, beautiful, like nothing happened.”

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White hairs adorn the body of this longhorn beetle from Australia. The unusual fluff and other unique physical traits indicated to scientists that the insect is a species new to science.

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Researchers have found a bacterial protein that links up to form a type of fractal called a Sierpiński triangle. It’s the first known case of a naturally occurring regular fractal on the molecular level.

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The runner on the treadmill wasn’t your typical gym rat. For one thing, he kept sprinting to the front of the treadmill and riding it to the back. For another, he had six legs.

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Many spiders spend most of their lives alone, coming together only very briefly to reproduce, making the finding especially unusual.

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Journalist Bianca Bosker infiltrates the secretive art world to understand the science and psychology of why art matters to the human experience in her new book 'Get the Picture.'

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“There’s many things that the larynx and the trachea do, but one of the most important things is that they’re gatekeepers for the airways.”

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A new longhorn beetle species has been found. The beetle’s name, 'Excastra albopilosa,' means a white hairy organism from a camp.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time approved a health test based on period blood. It may be just the beginning.

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