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Spice up Your Life: How Your Spice Rack Can Transform Your Gut and Boost Your Mood

Spice up Your Life: How Your Spice Rack Can Transform Your Gut and Boost Your Mood

Discover the science-backed link between spices, gut health, and mental clarity — and how to harness their power today
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Dr. Hatem El-Nagar
Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal

Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal

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Sam Vaseghi
A Simple Look at Simple Random Walks

A Simple Look at Simple Random Walks

A drunken man always returns home, but a drunken bird will eventually be lost.
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Laurel W
Why Did You Get Vaccinated and Still Get Sick?

Why Did You Get Vaccinated and Still Get Sick?

The immune system is complex, as are the viruses and bacteria we vaccinate against, and so are you.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Genes Interact with the Environment

Genes Interact with the Environment

But what exactly does that mean? Perhaps something more complex than captured by that phrase.
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Ronald Boothe
How to Tell if a Wellness Product Might Be a Scam

How to Tell if a Wellness Product Might Be a Scam

A scientist explains how to apply critical thinking skills to protect you from health scams
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Bill Sullivan Jr
What Happens to the Information that Falls into the Black Holes?

What Happens to the Information that Falls into the Black Holes?

Stephen Hawking (1976) has claimed that the evaporation of a black hole is not a unitary process. In semiclassical calculations, Hawking…
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Anastasiya Khromova, Dr. rer. nat. 🇺🇦
The Realized Promise of Blood-based Cancer Testing: Liquid Biopsy

The Realized Promise of Blood-based Cancer Testing: Liquid Biopsy

As non-invasive, repeatable, fast, cost-effective method of studying cancer, it deserves our attention.
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Daniel G. Camblor
The Pursuit of Immortality: A Journey Beyond Death and Time

The Pursuit of Immortality: A Journey Beyond Death and Time

“A human who lives only a few decades cannot master space, just as a mayfly with a one-day life span can never cross the ocean.”
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Narthana Arumugam
Quantum Pointers to Classical Reality: Decoherence Dynamics of an ‘Alice–Bob’ CHSH Set-up in Closed…

Quantum Pointers to Classical Reality: Decoherence Dynamics of an ‘Alice–Bob’ CHSH Set-up in Closed…

Distinct Markovian reservoirs for Alice’s and Bob’s qubits with varying decay rates induce multiple relaxation timescales in correlation…
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Sam Vaseghi
The History of Hantavirus and Why You’re Reading a Lot About It in 2025

The History of Hantavirus and Why You’re Reading a Lot About It in 2025

It’s everywhere in the news, so let me share its history along with a story of my own.
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Superbugs on Your Plate: The Silent Threat Lurking in Your Meal

Superbugs on Your Plate: The Silent Threat Lurking in Your Meal

What seemed like a harmless meal led to a fight against an antibiotic-resistant infection — unveiling a deeper crisis in our food system.
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Dr. Hatem El-Nagar
The Emergence of Classical Reality as Order Parameter Dynamics of Bell Type Quantum Violations

The Emergence of Classical Reality as Order Parameter Dynamics of Bell Type Quantum Violations

On the dynamics of quantum-to-classical transition, decoherence dynamics in Markovian open quantum systems, and the emergence of a…
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Sam Vaseghi
The Ninja's Tale

The Ninja's Tale

A tail is a highly refined evolutionary adaption in and essential to the Snow Leopard, the Cheetah, the Marbled Cat of Borneo, the Kangaroo…
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Selena Routley
SSRI Medications: Their History, Effects, and Current Controversies

SSRI Medications: Their History, Effects, and Current Controversies

Along with attacks on science in general, medication for mental health disorders is being maligned. Here are some facts.
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
The Mathematics of Plaiting Braids: The Art That Led to Astonishing Algebraic Insights!

The Mathematics of Plaiting Braids: The Art That Led to Astonishing Algebraic Insights!

Braids and knots have been known to mankind since prehistoric Man tried to enhance the beauty of hair or manipulated strings into knots to…
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Peter Ripota
Does Microsoft’s New Quantum Chip Really Work? — In the Era of Disinformation, Even Science Must …

Does Microsoft’s New Quantum Chip Really Work? — In the Era of Disinformation, Even Science Must …

Are we on the verge of functional topological quantum computers, or is this just an elaborately orchestrated marketing strategy…
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Paolo Molignini, PhD
Human Consciousness Emerged from Our Brain’s Navigation System—Will AI Consciousness Emerge the…

Human Consciousness Emerged from Our Brain’s Navigation System—Will AI Consciousness Emerge the…

The evolution of AI has had many parallels to the evolution of animal intelligence, and as AI evolves, a consciousness could emerge for…
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Rick Mammone
Teaching Your Robot Cat To Land On Her Feet

Teaching Your Robot Cat To Land On Her Feet

A deep dive into the mechanics of the cat righting reflex….
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Selena Routley
Are Humans Still Evolving?

Are Humans Still Evolving?

How to debate an evolution denier and other musings on the state of human evolution.
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Mitchell Diamond
Armor-Wearing Ants, Iron-Pooping Whales, and Terraforming Lightning

Armor-Wearing Ants, Iron-Pooping Whales, and Terraforming Lightning

How living and non-living things intermingle to enrich the planet
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Elaine Medline
The Architectural Biomimicry Revolution: “Simple” Over “Easy”

The Architectural Biomimicry Revolution: “Simple” Over “Easy”

So much of what we are taught is hypothetical and uncertain. Now we need proof that what environmentalists advocate for is truly possible.
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Alyson Lang
Public Health Is Not About Radical Change

Public Health Is Not About Radical Change

Rarely is a public health program revolutionary, at least not instantly.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
On The Supraluminal Limits of Entropy and Dissipation in Tachyonic Modes-Or Why Faster-Than-Light…

On The Supraluminal Limits of Entropy and Dissipation in Tachyonic Modes-Or Why Faster-Than-Light…

Inherent tachyonic modes do not constitute a well-defined thermal ensemble or coarse-grained entropy.
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Sam Vaseghi
Can We Compost Our Power Banks—Are Algae the Future Batteries?

Can We Compost Our Power Banks—Are Algae the Future Batteries?

Algal-based batteries hold a promising future towards green-power banks. With fundamental and developmental research who knows that one…
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Nandini Dixit
The Kansas Tuberculosis Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call We Can’t Ignore

The Kansas Tuberculosis Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call We Can’t Ignore

One of our oldest bacterial foes continues to wreak havoc in an era of antibiotics and vaccines.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
It’s All in Your Head: Physical Laws and the Brain Free Energy Principle

It’s All in Your Head: Physical Laws and the Brain Free Energy Principle

While physical reality exists independently of observers, physical models — along with their mathematics, causes, and effects — are…
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Francesco De Bernardis
In Math, Sometimes it’s Easier to Make Things Harder

In Math, Sometimes it’s Easier to Make Things Harder

Three Examples of Solving a Problem by Adding Complexity
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Paolo Molignini, PhD
The Drunkard’s Walk: The Mathematics of Getting Lost

The Drunkard’s Walk: The Mathematics of Getting Lost

What a Drunkard, a Photon, and a Gambler Have in Common
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Chaipat Tirapongprasert
There Are Cost-Effective and Science-Based Ways to Stop Drug Overdose Deaths

There Are Cost-Effective and Science-Based Ways to Stop Drug Overdose Deaths

You don’t have to crash the economy or go to war to do something about fentanyl overdoses and deaths in the United States.
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Relativity on a Merry Go Round and the Accuratest Gyroscope of All Time

Relativity on a Merry Go Round and the Accuratest Gyroscope of All Time

The connected topics of the Unparadoxical Ehrenfest "Paradox", Born Rigidity with its Relativity Enforced Squidge and the Sagnac Effect…
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Selena Routley
Why ‘Entropy’ Is So Special in Special Relativity?-On the Interrelational Manifestation of… Reality

Why ‘Entropy’ Is So Special in Special Relativity?-On the Interrelational Manifestation of… Reality

“It is about the deep fundamental significance of the invariance of the Liouville stochastic expanse and the interrelationality of maximum…
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Sam Vaseghi
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