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Women are about twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s disease as men. But women who take estrogen as hormone therapy after menopause have fewer telltale neurological signs of Alzheimer’s disease after death than women who don’t.
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Women are about twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s disease as men. But women who take estrogen as hormone therapy after menopause have fewer telltale neurological signs of Alzheimer’s disease after death than women who don’t.

sciencenews.org
u/arijitdas — 7 days ago
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Rumors that Grand Duchess Anastasia had escaped her family's 1918 execution persisted for nearly 90 years, inspiring films and multiple impostors, until the discovery and DNA testing of the last missing Romanov remains in 2007 finally disproved them.

en.wikipedia.org
u/Superb-Bit2412 — 9 days ago
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More than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that appear far more organized than previously realized.

sciencedaily.com
u/arijitdas — 10 days ago