Daily Science Brief - July 29, 2025 - Vaccine Dental Floss

During the weeks from July 28 through Aug 8---while we take our summer vacation---we're going to be posting the daily news episodes from Bobby's daily science podcast, Daily Science Brief. If you like this short-form podcast and want to hear more, search for Daily Science Brief or head over to https://www.dailysciencebrief.com/

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Maggot meat may have helped Neanderthals thrive, mice get flu shots by flossing, grief might be deadly, and your frenemies could be aging you—literally.

SOURCES

• Neanderthals likely ate fermented meat with a side of maggots | The Conversation
• Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes | Science Advances
• Scientists gave mice flu vaccines by flossing their tiny teeth — and it worked | Live Science
• Intensely grieving a loved one could shorten a mourner's life | New Scientist
• Grief trajectories and long-term health effects in bereaved relatives: a prospective, population-based cohort study with ten-year follow-up | Frontiers in Public Health
• Negative social ties, like frenemies, could be ageing you | New Scientist
• Negative Social Ties as Emerging Risk Factors for Accelerated Aging, Inflammation, and Multimorbidity | medRxiv

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