Humans

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  1. Health & Medicine

    How the weight loss drug tirzepatide is also helping heart failure patients

    Data continue to show that tirzepatide, called Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss, is safe and effective, but side effects remain.

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  2. Climate

    Climate change made 2024 the hottest year on record. The heat was deadly

    Heat waves fueled by climate change killed scores of people and upended daily life. Here are some of those stories.

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  3. Humans

    Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers

    Mammoths made up as much as 40 percent of the ancient North Americans’ diet, a chemical analysis of human remains reveals.

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  4. Archaeology

    Neandertals may have built a hearth specifically to make tar

    Findings from a cave in Gibraltar suggests Neandertals may have used complex fire structures to obtain adhesives from plants.

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  5. Anthropology

    Footprints offer a rare look at ancient human relatives crossing paths

    The imprints put flat-footed and arched-foot walkers together at a prime spot in East Africa.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Sluggish proteins may underpin aging and chronic disease

    Sticky, sluggish proteins with “proteolethargy” may be a common denominator underpinning life’s ailments.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Cervical cancer deaths are plummeting among young U.S. women

    A new study shows a steep drop in cervical cancer deaths among the first cohort of women who were eligible for the HPV vaccine.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Like brain cells, kidney cells can form memories

    Scientists found memory’s molecular machinery at work in cells outside the nervous system.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes don’t care

    Infectious diseases are often labeled “urban” or “rural.” Applying political labels to public health misses who is at risk, experts argue.

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