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Do probiotics work? - The Economist (No paywall)
 A DAZZLING menagerie of microbes live inside the human gut—by some counts a few thousand different species. Most residents of this gut microbiome are not the disease-causing kind. In fact, many do useful jobs, such as breaking down certain carbohydrates, fibres and proteins that the human body would otherwise struggle to digest. Some even produce essential compounds the body cannot make on its own, like B vitamins and short-chain fatty acids, which help regulate inflammation, influence the immune system and affect metabolism.
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WorkWorkWorkAncient proteins could transform palaeontology - The Economist (No paywall) ANCIENT PROTEINS nestled in fossils contain troves of information about long-dead creatures. However, like all ancient molecules, proteins degrade. Until recently the oldest proteins recovered for reliable, in-depth analysis were around 4m years old. But two separate studies published in Nature on July 9th, one by researchers at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute and another led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, have recovered ancient proteins, some of which could be up to 29m years old. The discoveries should help palaeontologists investigate the behaviour, diet and evolution of animals long thought too old to be studied with molecular tools. Work 
WorkWorkWorkWorkThe week when crypto won big in AmericaCongress passed the first major crypto legislation in the U.S., marking a major milestone for the digital currency sector. And with President Trump's support, the industry plans to march on.
WorkWorkWorkWorkMeta Swears This Time Is Different - The Atlantic (No paywall) Mark Zuckerberg was supposed to win the AI race. Eons before ChatGPT and AlphaGo, when OpenAI did not exist and Google had not yet purchased DeepMind, there was FAIR: Facebook AI Research. In 2013, Facebook tapped one of the godfathers of AI, the legendary computer scientist Yann LeCun, to lead its new division. That year, Zuckerberg personally traveled to one of the worlds most prestigious AI conferences to announce FAIR and recruit top scientists to the lab. 
WorkAnti-immigration demonstrations in more than 80 cities across Poland On Saturday, anti-immigration marches under the slogan 'Stop Immigration' took place in more than 80 Polish cities. Some of them were accompanied by counter-manifestations by left-wing circles. A total of 100 public gatherings were reported across the country. #EuropeNews WorkWorkWork 
WorkThe tech that the US Post Office gave us In the 250 years that the US Postal Service has been around, it's been a quiet pioneer in modern technologies, helping to popularize things like commercial aviation, the ZIP code, and optical character recognition. WorkWorkWhy do we need sleep? Researchers find the answer may lie in mitochondria Sleep may not just be rest for the mind-it may be essential maintenance for the body's power supply. A new study by University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature, reveals that the pressure to sleep arises from a build-up of electrical stress in the tiny energy generators inside brain cells. WorkCan Doctors Predict Who Will Drop Dead? - Intelligencer (No paywall) It was a Saturday morning August 8, 2020 and 44-year-old Carlo was on the pickleball court near his home in Minnesota, where he liked to play pickup games with whoever happened to show up. It was nice to be out of the house and rare to be on his own. Carlo had just spent three weeks on intensive dad duty to his two toddler boys; the three of them were sick and quarantining while Carlos wife, Megan, an oncology nurse, went to work. When everyone was feeling better, Megan and her sister took the boys three hours north to their parents cabin to let Carlo have a weekend to himself. That morning, he FaceTimed the kids briefly to persuade one of them to eat breakfast. 
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WorkWorkWorkWorkContaminated Fukushima soil delivered to PM's office - Japan Today Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse. Soon after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil... 
WorkWorkWhat if a trip to space changed your eyesight forever? NASA has discovered that 7 out of 10 astronauts returning from the International Space Station have been unable to see clearly, with vision problems that can last for years! As we prepare for multi year Mars missions, scientists are racing to solve this mysterious WorkWork WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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