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☆ NASA isn’t just creating a lunar time zone. It’s establishing an entirely new time scale
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

They’re also going to be communicating with one another or driving their moon buggies while on the lunar surface. Lunar clockworkWhat scientists know for certain is that they need to get precision timekeeping instruments to the moon. Exactly who pays for lunar clocks, which type of clocks will go, and where they’ll be positioned are all questions that remain up in the air, Gramling said. Focke Strangmann/APThe new time scale would underpin an entire lunar network, which NASA and its allies have dubbed LunaNet. But how future astronauts living and working on the lunar surface will experience time is a different question entirely.

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☆ Introducing peanut butter during infancy can help protect against a peanut allergy later on, new study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Reassuring new evidence suggests that feeding children smooth peanut butter during infancy and early childhood can help reduce their risk of developing a peanut allergy even years later. “Peanut allergy develops very early in most children between six and 12 months of life. The LEAP-Trio trial set out to examine whether that reduced risk of peanut allergy would last into adolescence. At that age, peanut allergy remained “significantly more prevalent” among the children who originally avoided peanuts, with about 15% having a peanut allergy. Among those who originally consumed peanuts, about 4% had a peanut allergy, the researchers found.

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☆ Women have specific exercise and nutritional needs. Dr. Stacy Sims explains
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“If we work with our physiology knowing that women are women and men are men, knowing that women are not small men, then imagine the (health) outcomes,” she said at a 2019 TED talk. Women of all ages should focus on strength training to help reduce risk of dementia, said exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims (not shown). Dr. Stacy Sims said women should prioritize eating more protein to support building muscle, especially as bodies age. But if we have that lean mass from strength training, it really helps calm down that rate of change. Drinking something cold right after exercise helps bring that blood back centrally, reduces metabolites and starts the reparation process.

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☆ Psilocybin: These athletes suffered life-changing injuries. Then, they turned to psychedelics.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Last year, Australia became the first country in the world to legalize clinical prescribing of MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy, and psilocybin for certain mental health disorders. Elite athletes experience mental health disorder symptoms and psychological distress at similar, if not higher, rates to the general population, researchers pointed out in a study published in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Researchers in the field say that psychedelics are shown to work when treating some mental health conditions. Later, he founded Wesana Health, a biotechnology company which focuses on developing psychedelic medicine for mental health, the most recent being a CBD and psilocybin-based drug. Since her retirement as a professional athlete, Symonds explains that she uses psychedelic drugs for clarity, though not under the direction of a doctor.

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☆ Octopuses could get the same protections as mice and monkeys thanks to a growing body of evidence that suggests they feel pain
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The NIH said a growing body of evidence suggests cephalopods are capable of feeling pain. Other countries have also extended animal welfare protections to octopuses. AdvertisementAdvertisementThanks to mounting evidence that they may be capable of feeling pain, octopuses could soon receive the same legal protections that mice and monkeys have in the US. The US Public Health Service sets the federal standards for animal welfare in science under its policy on "Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals." The move comes after other countries have also extended animal welfare protections to cephalopods, including New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Switzerland.

Persons: —, Robyn Crook Organizations: National Institutes of Health, NIH, Service, US National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Animals, San Francisco State University, Nature Locations: California, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Spain

☆ Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, shares update on star's condition
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —It’s “hard to know” whether Hollywood star Bruce Willis is aware that he is suffering with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his wife, Emma Heming Willis, has said in an update on his condition. Speaking to Hoda Kotb on the Today show on NBC Monday, Heming Willis described how the diagnosis has affected the couple and their two daughters. Kotb also asked how the diagnosis had affected Heming Willis. After retiring from acting in March 2022 due to a speaking disorder called aphasia, Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family announced in February this year. “Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed,” the Willis family said in a statement at the time.

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☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he worked so hard on building his first start-up with his ex-boyfriend that he got scurvy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said he got scurvy from working too hard on his start-up, Loopt. AdvertisementAdvertisementSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, may have learned how to manage his work load the hard way — through malnutrition, according to a New York Magazine profile. Before Altman started leading efforts behind ChatGPT, the buzzy conversational AI chatbot, he first stepped into the tech start-up world in 2004 when he was a sophomore at Stanford University. After selling the company, Altman said he took a year and off and spent his free time reading books, traveling, and playing video games. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It changed my life," Altman told New York Magazine in regard to the ashram.

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☆ A lack of sleep blocks brain-boosting benefits from exercise, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“It shows how important it is to consider sleep and physical activity together when thinking about cognitive health,” she said in a statement. “We were surprised that regular physical activity may not always be sufficient to counter the long-term effects of lack of sleep on cognitive health,” Bloomberg said. In people age 70 and older, the benefits of exercise on the brain was maintained, despite short sleep. But in reality, only people with a short sleep gene have that ability. If you suffer from insomnia, sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, seeing a sleep specialist is key, experts say.

Persons: ”, Dr, Mikaela, ” Bloomberg, it’s, you’re Organizations: CNN, Mikaela Bloomberg, Epidemiology, Health Care, University College London, Ageing, US National Institute, Aging

☆ Uganda: Leading scientists urge President Museveni to veto anti-LGBT bill
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A group of leading global scientists and academics have signed an open letter urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to veto a hardline bill criminalizing homosexuality in the country. The Anti Homosexuality Bill 2023, which was passed by Ugandan lawmakers in March, is set to be either signed into law or vetoed by the president on Thursday. Before the bill was passed almost unanimously last month, President Museveni called on scientists to establish whether homosexuality was natural or learned. The letter has been signed by 15 leading scientists around the world, from countries including South Africa, the United States, Canada, the UK, Kenya, and Australia. Under the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2023, it would be a crime to even identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

☆ 40% of employees in a 4-day work week trial reported fewer sleep issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Britney Nguyen | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

40% of employees who participated in the UK's four-day work week trial reported fewer sleep issues. The UK's four-day work week trial, one of the largest in the world, saw 61 companies participate in the trial. In the 4-day work week pilot, 46% of employees reported experiencing less fatigue than usual, and 14% said they experienced more. In addition to better sleep, participating employees reported other benefits of working 32 hours instead of 40 for the same amount of pay. Thirty-nine percent of employees reported feeling less stress, and 71% felt less burnout by the end of the trial.

☆ Statins lower the risk of one of the deadliest kinds of strokes, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Doctors know that drugs called statins lower a person’s risk of a stroke due to a blood clot. But a new study shows that the inexpensive medications can also decrease the risk of a first stroke as a result of an intracerebral hemorrhage, the deadliest kind. People in the study who used statins for any period of time had a 17% lower risk of a stroke in the lobe areas of the brain and a 16% lower risk of a stroke in the non-lobe areas of the brain. When they used a statin for more than five years, they had a 33% lower risk of a bleeding stroke in the lobe areas and a 38% lower risk in the non-lobe areas. She said this study shows what biologically makes sense: Taking statins and keeping fatty deposits from building up in the arteries makes hemorrhagic strokes less likely.

☆ How to stay cool without air conditioning
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-18 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Take a cold shower or bathTaking a cold shower or bath helps cool your body by lowering your core temperature, Porter said. Use box fansPlace box fans facing out of the windows of rooms you’re spending time in to blow out hot air and replace it with cold air inside. The outdoors can pull the hot air from your home, leaving a cooler temperature or bringing in the breeze. Don’t refrigerate or freeze blankets or clothingCommon advice for staying cool without air conditioning includes refrigerating or freezing wet socks, blankets or clothing then ringing them out to wear while you sleep. To make the switch, watch for sales on energy-efficient bulbs, then slowly replace the bulbs in your house, Porter said.

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