Science

March 9, 2023

Largest Ever Family Tree Has 27 Million Ancestors Revealing the Origins of Humanity

Perhaps you've used sites like Ancestry to construct your own family tree, peering back into the past to discover how your relations came to be. All family trees tell a story. In the pre-internet days, this work involved hunting through microfiche and archival records of birth, death, and immigration. Now, a fascinating global story has emerged in Science: the largest family tree ever created.

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March 2, 2023

Pharmaceutical Giant Eli Lilly Caps Price of Insulin at $35 a Month

Approximately 1.6 million Americans who suffer from Type 1 diabetes rely on daily insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels. And now, a top pharmaceutical company has decided to make it much easier for these people to get the medication they need at an affordable price. Eli Lilly announced that they will be lowering the price of the most commonly used form of insulin by 70%.

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February 26, 2023

Study Suggests Body Odor Can Reveal if a Man Is Single or Not

From our health to compatibility, our scent can say a lot about us. According to a new study, women can actually detect whether a man is single or in a relationship based on his body odor. This is due to the testosterone levels, which are higher in bachelors than in men with partners. According to previous research, testosterone levels in men is lower when they are in committed relationships.

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February 16, 2023

Astronomers Discover Surprising Rings Around Dwarf Planet Quaoar

The Solar System is a source of constant amazement. As telescope and imaging technology improves, astronomers learn more about distant worlds we can barely see. One of these is the icy dwarf planet Quaoar, only a third of the diameter of Earth’s moon. It orbits our Sun about 4 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt, a strip of frozen space debris that includes Pluto.

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