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Donut Sugar Could Help Stored Blood Last

Share this on WhatsApp Blood donations save lives. But blood can only be stored under refrigeration for up to six weeks. After that, it’s no longer usable for transfusions.  “Because of that limitation, people have to continually donate blood to meet the needs, but also in places where refrigeration may not be available, that can […]

COVID in the White House Should be America’s Wake-Up Call

Share this on WhatsApp With the president and first lady’s stunning diagnoses of COVID-19, the couple will receive exemplary care. They will have all the support they need to—we hope—emerge fully recovered from this potentially lethal virus. That’s as it should be. But the tens of millions of Americans who could receive similar diagnoses will […]

From Dinosaurs to Disney, Children Take Cues from Adults on Real vs. Make-Believe

Share this on WhatsApp Most children have a decent sense of reality. They get that dinosaurs existed and that SpongeBob is fictional. But a new study found that in the young brain, the realness of cultural fabrications such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny exists somewhere in between reality and make believe. And it […]