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Walmart’s $40 basket feeds 10 and includes a Butterball turkey.New gluten-free, mindful, and prime rib meal baskets debut this year.All holiday meals can be ordered online for pickup or delivery through Dec. 25. Trick-or-treating plans are set and some stores are breaking out Christmas decorations, but between Halloween costumes and trimming the tree comes Thanksgiving dinner. Getting a turkey and all the fixings on the table can get expensive, but retail chains like Walmart and Aldi are making it easier than ever to feed everyone at your dinner table for less. Walmart has announced its annual Thanksgiving meal deal: a…

A British Palestinian doctor under investigation by the General Medical Council for alleged antisemitic remarks has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred.Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, a trainee in trauma and orthopaedics, was arrested just two days before she faces a tribunal which could see her suspended from the UK medical register.In a video Aladwan posted on social media a police officer tells her that she is under arrest for three malicious communications and one offence of inciting racial hatred. The officer cites communications allegedly demonstrating support for Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel on…

The research community is as diverse as the scientific questions they study. For mid-sized labs, core facilities, and emerging biotech companies, choosing the right laboratory technology is a balancing act between reliability, accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and performance. For such labs, sequencing technology needs to be functionally advanced, yet compact and accessible.To facilitate this, PacBio scientists created the VegaTM HiFi system, a precise, affordable, and rapid long-read sequencing platform. “One of the challenges was, how to bring all the complex engineering and requirements to do single molecule sequencing into a very small footprint. We needed to make sure that we could properly…

Physicists are questioning whether gravity can produce quantum entanglement between two masses.Credit: David Parker/Science Photo LibraryThe nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics — is one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Most researchers think that at a fundamental level, all phenomena follow the principles of quantum physics, but those principles do not seem to be compatible with the accepted theory of gravity.For years, researchers have been proposing experiments to show whether gravity could produce a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. Now, two theoretical physicists have complicated the picture by putting forward a controversial,…

Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, who helped coin the term “mycobiome,” is the director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and chief science officer of Biohm Technologies. He explained that as people age, the gut lining changes, which allows more pathogenic bacteria and fungi to flourish, creating imbalances that affect digestive health and immune function as well as cognition through the gut-brain axis. Through his work at Biohm Technologies, Dr. Ghannoum has helped develop a longevity-focused microbiome test that reveals age-related changes, including decreased beneficial organisms like Feaclibacterium prausnitzii and Coprococcus, which support anti-inflammatory responses and fiber…

The infant probiotics market is expanding rapidly, driven by advancing microbiome research and a growing parental awareness of a healthy gut microbiome’s impact on immunity and overall well-being. Nutrition innovations include strain-specific formulations and synergistic combinations of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), prebiotics, and probiotics. Nutrition Insight meets with experts from Novonesis, Morinaga Milk, Kerry, and FrieslandCampina Ingredients to explore ingredient innovations that more closely mimic breast milk. “Today’s parents are more informed and engaged than ever — they read labels, follow science updates, and actively seek solutions they can trust,” says Anne Karina Riise, global commercial industry manager at Novonesis. “This…

If you want a delicious and easy dish that supports your gut health, we’ve got you covered. These dinner recipes are one-pot wonders that you can get on the table in 30 minutes or less. Plus, each meal is packed with at least 6 grams of fiber per serving from prebiotic foods like legumes and whole grains, which can support heart health, satiety and the healthy bacteria in your microbiome. Recipes like our Broccoli-Cheddar Butter Beans and Crispy Tempeh Steaks with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce are nutrient-packed dinners you can count on when you need something easy and flavorful. Love…

Growing up in a Polish American household means that beets are a celebrated part of daily life. The root vegetable is healthy, versatile and always adds a bright pop of color to the table. Beets can be prepared sweet or savory, and there are an infinite amount of ways to prepare Polish beet salads and soups. One salad I find myself making most often in the autumn is buraczki.  For me, buraczki symbolizes the start of the season. Beets are among the last fresh vegetables pulled from the garden during harvest, and they symbolize preparation for the winter ahead. We…

Elkhorn coral off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Credit: Sam Hodge/AlamyTwo years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than 10,000 years are now ‘functionally extinct’ off the state’s southern coast.Both the elkhorn coral (Acropora Palmata) and staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) survive in tanks and scattered locations across Florida’s reefs, but a study published today in Science suggests that their long-standing role as the primary reef builders off the coast of Florida has come to an end: so few remain that they can no longer play…

media-1vid1Video 1Experts on nutrition discuss famine in Gaza with The BMJ’s Elisabeth Mahasebmj.r2078-vid1What is the humanitarian situation in Gaza?Jonathan Wells, professor of anthropology and paediatric nutrition at University College London, described the collapse of supply lines. “Before the imposition of the blockade [of aid by Israeli forces], we were seeing 600 trucks come in daily. After the blockade was put in place that went to zero until mid-May, and then they started allowing about 100 trucks in. Gaza is receiving about one sixth of what it needs to sustain the population.”Chris Mintosh, humanitarian response adviser at Oxfam, added, “Aid and…