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Scientists find that gay men are twice as likely to get the disease

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The study found that 0.8% of same-sex patients who engaged in high-risk sexual activity had been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, while only 0.49 heterosexual men who engaged in high-risk sexual activity had Crohn’s disease. The research will enable the development of individualized precision medicine for the management of inflammatory bowel disease in this underrepresented minority …

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Scientists find evidence of what could be Earth's first mass animal extinction

Scientists find evidence of what could be Earth’s first mass animal extinction

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Since the Cambrian Explosion 538.8 million years ago – a time when many of the animal phyla we know today were established – five major mass extinction events have reduced the biodiversity of all creatures, large and small. American researchers have discovered evidence of an earlier event, around 550 million years ago, during a period …

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Scientists Simulate the Early Universe with a Quantum State of Matter in a Mind-Blowing Lab Experiment

Scientists Simulate the Early Universe with a Quantum State of Matter in a Mind-Blowing Lab Experiment

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Artist’s interpretation of the Big Bang. Image: Flash movie via Getty Images The first moments after the birth of the universe are shrouded in mystery, in part because we can’t go back far enough in time to observe what happened in this ancient era. Scientists believe that the universe must have undergone a huge expansion …

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Scientists discover hidden 'planet-killer' asteroids in an elusive location

Scientists discover hidden ‘planet-killer’ asteroids in an elusive location

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Astronomers are vigilantly scanning the skies for asteroids veering into the vicinity of Earth’s solar system. Butsome are masked. Most asteroids – rubble leftovers from the formation of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago – orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Millions exist there. But in the inner solar system, asteroids are …

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An illustration of an asteroid streaking toward Earth. The asteroid that hit Earth about 66 million years ago triggered a tsunami with mile-high waves.

The ‘planet-killer’ asteroid that evaded detection for years by hiding behind the sun could crash into Earth, scientists predict

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A “planet killer” asteroid lurking in the sun’s glare has finally been detected, and the giant space rock could one day crash into Earth. The ‘potentially dangerous’ 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometer) asteroid, named 2022 AP7, is one of many large space rocks that astronomers have recently discovered near the orbits of Earth and Venus. Currently, 2022 …

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