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Ultra-Processed Foods – Like Cookies, Chips, Frozen Meals and Fast Food – May Contribute to Cognitive Decline

But ongoing research increasingly indicates that a poor diet is a risk factor for memory impairments during normal aging and increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

America Sees Economic Growth in Fourth Quarter

A Department of Commerce statement, released on Thursday, January 26, reported fourth quarter and year-end preliminary findings on the US economy.

2022’s Billion-Dollar Disasters: Climate Change Helped Make It US’s 3rd Most Expensive Year On Record

U.S. weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned as it released its annual billion-dollar disasters report on Jan. 10, 2023.

States That Limit Business with Banks That ‘Boycott’ Fossil Fuels Could Pay High Cost, Study Says

Republican state policymakers’ efforts to boost fossil fuels by prohibiting their governments from doing business with companies that take sustainability into consideration has the potential to cost states millions, according to a study released Thursday.

More Women are Being Detained as Jail Populations Near Pre-COVID Levels

A look at incarceration trends shows that as jails fill back up, women are being booked at a faster rate.

AI and the Future of Work: 5 Experts on What ChatGPT, DALL-E and Other AI Tools Mean for Artists and Knowledge Workers

Specifically, the emergence of large language models – AI systems that are trained on vast amounts of text – means computers can now produce human-sounding written language and convert descriptive phrases into realistic images.

National Unemployment Drops As Jobs Increase

Over the last six months, the national unemployment rate has bounced back and forth between 3.5 percent and 3.7 percent. In December, the national unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 percent, down 0.1 percent from the previous month.

Did He Jiankui ‘Make People Better’? Documentary Spurs a New Look at the Case of the First Gene-Edited Babies

“Make People Better” outlines an already well-documented saga, tracing the path of He from a promising young scientist at Rice and Stanford to a driven researcher establishing a laboratory in China that secretly worked to make heritable genome editing a reality.

Harnessing the Brain’s Immune Cells to Stave Off Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

Most available treatments target just one of the multiple processes that can lead to neurodegeneration, which may not be effective in completely addressing disease symptoms or progress, if at all.