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Image showing hundreds of novel ingredients never encountered by human physiology are now found in nearly 60 percent of the average adult’s diet and nearly 70 percent of children’s diets in the U.S.

Ultra-processed foods are the new silent killer

Dr. Prajakta Banik

22 Feb, 2024

The hazards of ultra-processed foods and proposed solutions

A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s most recent mass extinction event. The deathbed created within an hour of the impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.(Graphics and photos courtesy of Robert DePalma)

North Dakota site shows wreckage from same object that killed the dinosaurs

30 Mar, 2019

An excavation site in North Dakota sheds new light on what happened when a giant meteorite struck planet Earth 66 million years ago. On that...

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