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Saturday Citations: Blue zone longevity; soft tissue find predates dinosaurs; black hole collisions simplified

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered via long-range atmospheric transport. A study associates the use of hormonal birth control with the risk of brain tumors. And researchers developed a new drug against metastatic...

Saturday Citations: Blue zone longevity; soft tissue find predates dinosaurs; black hole collisions simplified
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This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered via long-range atmospheric transport. A study associates the use of hormonal birth control with the risk of brain tumors. And researchers developed a new drug against metastatic prostate cancer using human proteins.

Originally published at Phys.org

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