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Turns out, testosterone levels remain unchanged in male while playing eSports esports video game League.

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Turns out, testosterone levels remain unchanged in male while playing eSports esports video game League.

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February is Black History Month, and a look at Southern Nevada's Past gives you some idea of how we got to where are today.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

An international research team has discovered about 60 000 previously unknown Mayan ruins in Guatemala , according to National Geographic.

Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Have researchers really overlooked thousands of Mayan buildings over decades? Of course not. This is behind the reports of an alleged breakthrough.

ZDNet France

Autonomous cars are not the only ones to benefit from the new capacity of computers to see for themselves. LiDARs are now used on archaeological sites.

Ars Technica

Huge sprawl of the civilization emerges from beneath the foliage.

Gizmodo

I’m not going to tell you what to do with your baby’s placenta after birth. If the doctor lets you have it, and you would like to encapsulate it, sauté it, or even ink it to make placenta prints, that is your decision to make. But you should at least know whether scientists have found any health benefits to consuming it.

medicalresearch.com

Over the last several decades, human maternal placentophagy (postpartum ingestion of the placenta by the mother) has emerged as a rare but increasingly popular practice among women in industrialized countries seeking its many purported health benefits.

Study Finds

Placenta pills may be all the rage for new mothers in recent years, but their benefits may be more limited than many believe. A new study finds that women who practiced maternal placentophagy didn’t see any notable improvements when it came to their mood, ability to bond with their baby, or fatigue level.

Study Finds

Placenta pills may be all the rage for new mothers in recent years, but their benefits may be more limited than many believe. A new study finds that women who practiced maternal placentophagy didn’t see any notable improvements when it came to their mood, ability to bond with their baby, or fatigue level.

veb.it

As science teaches us, the human placenta is the organ responsible for metabolic exchanges between the mother and the fetus. It consists of a maternal part, or Basal Decidua, which develops from the maternal tissue, and from a fetal part, ie the corion frondosum that develops from the same blastocyst that forms the fetus.