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Juul to pay $438.5 million in settlement with dozens of states over marketing to underage people

[ad_1] The investigation found that Juul deliberately marketed its products to young people, even though e-cigarette sales to children are illegal. Marketing efforts included free samples, social media campaigns, launch parties, and the use of young-looking models in its advertising campaigns, according to the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The packaging was easy […]

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A giant space tarantula has been caught by NASA’s Webb telescope

[ad_1] At 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the Tarantula Nebula is the nickname for 30 Doradus, the “largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, the galaxies nearest our Milky Way,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Resembling a burrowing tarantula’s home line with its silk, it houses

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‘Powerful division’ among public health leaders over how to pivot Covid-19 messaging

[ad_1] “This is the most powerful division I can think of among mainstream public health people,” Caplan said. “By the way, it reinforces something else: It’s a division based on ethics. It’s not about science,” he added. “It’s a fight about, what do you do at this point about Covid? Do you double down and

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Australia’s tough flu season could spell trouble for the US this winter, especially with Covid-19 in the mix

[ad_1] But when forecasters try to get a bead on what influenza might have in store for North America in any given winter, they look to countries like Australia and New Zealand, where the season typically runs from April to October — winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, Australia had its worst flu

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No pooh-poohing poo: Researchers envision an extreme circular economy

[ad_1] Now imagine using your poop to propel a spaceship to and from Mars and shield you from cosmic radiation along the way. Poop has power: as medicine, fertilizer, biomethane gas and reclaimed water, among other proven applications. But that’s just scratching the surface of our excremental potential; its biological, chemical and physical attributes have

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Monkeypox Fast Facts

[ad_1] Monkeypox is a poxvirus. It generally causes pimple- or blister-like lesions and flu-like symptoms such as fever. The disease is rarely fatal. Monkeypox spreads through close contact. This includes direct physical contact with lesions as well as “respiratory secretions” shared through face-to-face interaction and touching objects that have been contaminated by monkeypox lesions or

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Think preparation will help you later? You will probably be right, a new study says

[ad_1] It just might, according to a new study. “This study was the first to demonstrate that participants’ expectations of how their cognitive performance ‘should’ change as a result of cognitive training can influence the actual outcomes that they show,” said Jocelyn Parong, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral research associate department of psychology’s

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