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Everything we physically know about the Denisovans fits in a small box: a finger bone, a few teeth, a jawbone, all from Siberia. They were a human species, closely related to Neanderthals, who overlapped with our ancestors until perhaps 30,000 years ago.

About 50,000 patients develop pneumonia in Australian hospitals each year. Around 1,900 die from it.

GLP-1 receptor agonists — semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy), tirzepatide, and others — have reshaped obesity medicine faster than almost any drug class in recent history. They work.

In 2019, New York City set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from government food purchasing by 33 percent by 2030. By 2025, they had reduced them by 36 percent — and hit that milestone four years ahead of schedule.

In 1982, several research teams independently discovered that a single mutated DNA letter could turn a gene called RAS into a cancer driver. RAS proteins are like molecular switches that tell cells when to grow and divide.