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NFL players 4x more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease

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By Amyn Bhai Verified, Joseph Shavit Verified
| The Brighter Side of News Verified
Football has long sold a contradiction: elite strength, elite conditioning, elite survival. But beneath that picture, a much darker pattern has kept surfacing. Former NFL players, despite lower death rates overall, are dying from neurodegenerative diseases far more often than expected. That is the central finding of a large cohort study from Mass General Brigham, Boston University, and the Concussion & CTE Foundation, published in eClinicalMedicine.
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CUNY researchers bring black hole theory to life in the lab

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By Shy Cohen, Joseph Shavit Verified
| The Brighter Side of News Verified
A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop experiment there. For decades, physicists have wondered whether waves could steal energy from something spinning fast enough. The idea traces back to Roger Penrose, who proposed in the late 1960s that a rotating black hole could, under the right conditions, give up some of its energy.
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Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space

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By Joshua Shavit Verified, Joseph Shavit Verified
| The Brighter Side of News Verified
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving fingerprints. Quantum theory has long predicted that the vacuum seethes with virtual particles, pairs that flicker in and out of existence too briefly to observe directly. But a new experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory suggests those fleeting pairs are not entirely invisible.
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