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Can a diet that’s good for the planet reduce the risk of dying from disease?

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A diet that promotes plant-based proteins to help the environment now has a more human argument: It can lower the risk of death from several serious diseases. “It wasn’t just one cause of death. It was across the board,” said Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public … Read more

A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn’t exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers think they finally know why

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Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant almost as large as Jupiter, but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers were unsure how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now two independent teams of researchers have harnessed the power of JWST to solve the mystery. In the middle of our cosmic neighborhood, … Read more