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Beef tea was all the rage in the 1800s

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A cup a day kept the doctor away--at least according to these 19th century remedies. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Australian boxing manager and trainer Tom Maguire gives Australian boxer Dave Sands a cup of beef tea in his bedroom at their London hotel in April 1949. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Yes, eating carrots can help your eyesight. But it's not a cure-all.

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Yes, eating carrots can help your eyesight. The World War II propaganda that touted the veggie wasn't totally wrong, but carrots still won't give you night vision. Carrots' beta-carotene pigment can help support retina health, but the root vegetable still has its limits. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a British propaganda poster from World War II, an illustration in shadowy tones captures a dramatic nighttime scene: a woman and young girl peer around a black automobile, as if looking for a quick escape.


Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer

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The space-inspired wastewater treatment uses the nutrients and loses the odor. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When most people need to go number one, they find the nearest bathroom and don't give half a thought to what happens to their pee once it disappears down the toilet or urinal . It turns out that the nitrogen in human urine can be used in fertilizer. However, humanity's use of nitrogen is everything but efficient, according to a pair of siblings who founded the Swiss start-up company, VunaNexus.


Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients?

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Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients? Micorwaves have been a kitchen staple since the late 1960s, but are they safe for our food? Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Originally used for radar and other technologies, the power of microwaves was first harnessed specifically for heating food in 1947 . By the late 1960s, commercial microwave ovens were small and inexpensive enough to become fixtures of the modern kitchen.


Zombie worms have gone missing

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Biologists investigate the case of the lost'bone devourers' that feed on whale carcasses. Osedax is considered an ecosystem engineer. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you're leading a group of zombie apocalypse survivors, you don't want to lose sight of the horde of brain-hungry creatures trying to eat you. The same can be said if the zombie worm goes missing from the ocean floor.


Flavonoid Fusion: Creating a Knowledge Graph to Unveil the Interplay Between Food and Health

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The focus on'food as medicine' is gaining traction in the field of health and several studies conducted in the past few years discussed this aspect of food in the literature. However, very little research has been done on representing the relationship between food and health in a standardized, machine - readable fo rmat using a semantic web that can help us leverage this knowledge effectively. To address this gap, this study aims to create a knowledge graph to link food and health through the knowledge graphs' ability to combine information from various platforms foc using on flavonoid contents of food found in the USDA's databases and cancer connections found in the literature. We looked closely at these relationships using KNARM methodology and represented them in machine - operable format. The proposed knowledge graph serves as an example for researchers, enabling them to explore the complex interplay between dietary choices and disease management. Future work for this study involves expanding the scope of the knowledge graph by capturing nuances, adding more related d ata, and performing inferences on the acquired knowledge to uncover hidden relationships.



Tiny prairie dogs' poop play a mighty role in grasslands

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Environment Conservation Land Tiny prairie dogs' poop play a mighty role in grasslands Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Earth is made of cycles. If you think back to high school Earth science class, you might remember the water cycle, the rock cycle, and the oxygen cycle, to name just a few. These natural processes continuously recycle our planet's materials, maintaining the environment that hosts life as we know it. The nutrient cycle is another crucial example of our planet's constant churn.


Arbiters of Ambivalence: Challenges of Using LLMs in No-Consensus Tasks

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The increasing use of LLMs as substitutes for humans in ``aligning'' LLMs has raised questions about their ability to replicate human judgments and preferences, especially in ambivalent scenarios where humans disagree. This study examines the biases and limitations of LLMs in three roles: answer generator, judge, and debater. These roles loosely correspond to previously described alignment frameworks: preference alignment (judge) and scalable oversight (debater), with the answer generator reflecting the typical setting with user interactions. We develop a ``no-consensus'' benchmark by curating examples that encompass a variety of a priori ambivalent scenarios, each presenting two possible stances. Our results show that while LLMs can provide nuanced assessments when generating open-ended answers, they tend to take a stance on no-consensus topics when employed as judges or debaters. These findings underscore the necessity for more sophisticated methods for aligning LLMs without human oversight, highlighting that LLMs cannot fully capture human disagreement even on topics where humans themselves are divided.


Informatics for Food Processing

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This chapter explores the evolution, classification, and health implications of food processing, while emphasizing the transformative role of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and data science in advancing food informatics. It begins with a historical overview and a critical review of traditional classification frameworks such as NOVA, Nutri-Score, and SIGA, highlighting their strengths and limitations, particularly the subjectivity and reproducibility challenges that hinder epidemiological research and public policy. To address these issues, the chapter presents novel computational approaches, including FoodProX, a random forest model trained on nutrient composition data to infer processing levels and generate a continuous FPro score. It also explores how large language models like BERT and BioBERT can semantically embed food descriptions and ingredient lists for predictive tasks, even in the presence of missing data. A key contribution of the chapter is a novel case study using the Open Food Facts database, showcasing how multimodal AI models can integrate structured and unstructured data to classify foods at scale, offering a new paradigm for food processing assessment in public health and research.