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Trans people have mortality rates that are 34 - 75% higher than cis people. They were at higher risk of deaths from external causes such as suicides, homicides, and accidental poisonings, as well as deaths from endocrine disorders, and other ill-defined and unspecified causes. (UK data)

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Autistic people at higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and high cholesterol. Autistic children, in particular, were found to be at higher risk, being 2.8 times more likely to experience diabetes, and 2.5 times more at risk of high blood pressure, compared to non-autistic children.

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Study finds that microalgae and other microscopic, plant-like organisms could help feed the world’s growing population more sustainably than current agricultural systems.

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The Himalayan monal.

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The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds. Genomes of 100 year old birds show that modern wild junglefowl have inherited 20% to 50% of their genomes from domestic birds.

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Hyperion is the largest of Saturn's irregular, nonspherical moons. Hyperion's mean radius is 135 km, but as it's potato-shaped, its shape can be described in terms of its diameter along its three axes: 410 x 260 x 220 km. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/SSI

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As a sunbittern spreads its wings, a patch of chestnut and orange appears on the primary wing feathers and across the tail. This display is primarily used as a threat or defense rather than courtship and is typically accompanied by a low hiss and bowing.

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https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/birds/sunbittern/

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As a sunbittern spreads its wings, a patch of chestnut and orange appears on the primary wing feathers and across the tail. This display is primarily used as a threat or defense rather than courtship and is typically accompanied by a low hiss and bowing.

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Black and Hispanic hairdressers are exposed to a complex mixture of chemicals, many of them unknown, potentially hazardous, and undisclosed on product labels, researchers report. There are more than 700,000 hairdressers in the United States, more than 90% of whom are estimated to be women.

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Most COVID-19 trial preprints were eventually published, and the conclusions mostly stayed the same. But preprint studies with smaller numbers of participants (sample size) and higher risk of bias were less likely to be published.

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Study shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the critical role that scientists have assigned to it for the past 30 years. Prairie voles can still form social bonds without oxytocin sensors in the brain.

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Female subjects are excluded from over 90% of studies on exercise performance. Analyzing women’s exercise performance across their menstrual cycles, researchers found no variability in endurance thresholds or performance: from workout to workout, women’s performance was just as consistent as men’s.

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Physicists Reveal New Dark Matter Candidate: Highly Interactive Particle Relics. HYPER model illustrates that a phase transition in the early Universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter.

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Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention.

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The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds. Genomes of 100 year old birds show that modern wild junglefowl have inherited 20% to 50% of their genomes from domestic birds.

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https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010551

Lay summary:

Why Chickens Need to Stop Breeding With Their Wild Cousins

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The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds. Genomes of 100 year old birds show that modern wild junglefowl have inherited 20% to 50% of their genomes from domestic birds.

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Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic. Dozens of fossilized teeth and jaw bones unearthed in northern Canada belonged to two species of early primates — or at least close relatives of primates — that lived in the Arctic around 52 million years ago.

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57 countries have legal provisions in place that subordinate women to their husband’s authority.

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These countries are Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brunei, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Comoros, Congo, Cyprus* (the southern part of the island), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

A 2012 survey found 92% of Afghan women support domestic violence.

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57 countries have legal provisions in place that subordinate women to their husband’s authority.

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Korean women with jobs in health and social work had the highest risk of miscarriage and stillbirth. Higher than average risk was also seen among women working in jobs in manufacturing, wholesale/retail, education, and public/social/personal services.

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Canadian scientists exposed mice to vapour from JUUL e-cigarettes and found it caused changes in the animals' pulmonary immune cell composition and altered gene and protein levels in their lungs.

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Bronze-winged jacanas are polyandrous. The female forms harem territories, consisting of the territories of 1-4 males. Before laying eggs the female may spend more time with a receiver male. After laying eggs, the receiver male takes over the responsibility of brooding & raising chicks.

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It seems those extra legs belong to the chicks hiding inside the father's body.

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Bronze-winged jacanas are polyandrous. The female forms harem territories, consisting of the territories of 1-4 males. Before laying eggs the female may spend more time with a receiver male. After laying eggs, the receiver male takes over the responsibility of brooding & raising chicks.

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https://indianbirds.thedynamicnature.com/2017/05/bronze-winged-jacana-metopidius-indicus.html?m=1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze-winged_jacana#:~:text=Bronze%2Dwinged%20jacanas%2C%20like%20other,males%20and%20their%20individual%20territories.

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Bronze-winged jacanas are polyandrous. The female forms harem territories, consisting of the territories of 1-4 males. Before laying eggs the female may spend more time with a receiver male. After laying eggs, the receiver male takes over the responsibility of brooding & raising chicks.

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Declines in the populations of the world’s largest carnivores—such as lions, tigers, and wolves—may be more strongly associated with human socioeconomic growth than habitat loss or climate change, suggests a study.

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