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A weight-loss drug cut heart attacks in people who didn't have diabetes
Weekly semaglutide reduced major cardiovascular events by roughly 20% in adults with obesity and established heart disease but no diabetes.
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View all Research Notes →The ocean soaked up less of our CO2 during the hottest year on record
During the record-warm year of 2023, the global non-polar ocean took up about 10% less CO2 than expected, driven by warm-water outgassing in the subtropics and subpolar North Atlantic.
Lonely older adults have weaker memory — but they don't lose it any faster
Loneliness was linked to lower baseline memory but not to a faster rate of memory decline over seven years.
JWST Found Two Galaxies That Are Too Bright for Their Age
JWST spectroscopically confirmed two luminous galaxies already in place ~300 million years after the Big Bang, brighter than pre-JWST models predicted.
An AI Predicted 380,000 New Stable Materials. Now Someone Has to Make Them.
A graph neural network predicted the stability of 2.2 million crystals and identified about 380,000 new stable materials, though almost none have yet been synthesized.
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