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Sep 5, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Claire Maldarelli
There's no magic number of steps that can ensure your heart health.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
inverse.com | Claire Maldarelli
Forty years ago, at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, American distance runner Joan Benoit Samuelson became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the marathon posting a blazing time of 2:24:52. It was an astonishing feat — but not because it proved that women could complete 26.2 miles at pace (in the first modern Olympic Games, Greek woman Stamata Revithi ran the men’s only marathon course the day after the race).
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Claire Maldarelli
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
inverse.com | Claire Maldarelli
The Paris Olympics will host a countless number of fast runners. But perhaps the ones with the most potential for speedy, record-breaking times are going the farthest. It’s no secret that marathon times over the past decade have dropped significantly. And while we have novel science-informed training techniques as well as more professional year-round runners dedicating their lives to the sport to thank, we also have technology.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
inverse.com | Claire Maldarelli
Consider the apple. Arguably America’s most iconic fruit, and the one we as a nation consume the most, the apple is a crucial component of our culture (American as apple pie!), diets, and economy. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the apple ranks as America's favorite fruit, beating out other produce legends like oranges and bananas.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thefern.org | Claire Maldarelli
Consider the apple. America’s most iconic fruit is a crucial component of our culture (American as apple pie!), diet, and economy. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the apple ranks as America’s favorite fruit. Last year, the United States produced some 4.36 million metric tons of apples, the fourth largest producer of the fruit behind China, the EU, and Turkey. By one recent USDA estimate, every American eats about 26 pounds of apples a year.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Claire Maldarelli
Why diseases plague purebred dogs and how breeders, owners and genetics can help
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Claire Maldarelli |Laura Baisas |Rachel Feltman
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
inverse.com | Claire Maldarelli |Doris Elin Urrutia
This morning, a new NASA mission launched toward one of the Solar System’s strangest residents. Asteroid 16 Psyche is a metal-rich object that may be a remnant of an ancient collision that rendered the heart of a now-dead planet bare. Or, it signals that the Solar System used to be more peculiar than once thought, with Psyche having grown out from a particularly metal-rich pocket.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
popsci.com | Eleanor Cummins |Rachel Feltman |Claire Maldarelli
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’d have an even weirder answer if you’d listened to PopSci’s newest podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and PocketCasts every Wednesday, and it’s your new favorite source for the weirdest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster.
