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Joel Abrams Director of Digital Strategy and Outreach Apple News Travel to Miami, and you might hear people say ‘get down from the car’ instead of ‘get out of the car.’ Miami Herald/Getty Images [Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida]( Phillip M. Carter, Florida International University It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’ - [Hangry bacteria in your gut microbiome are linked to chronic disease – feeding them what they need could lead to happier cells and a healthier body]( Christopher Damman, University of Washington Research has examined how ultraprocessed foods can contribute to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mood disorders. A healthier diet is one way to use food as medicine. - [50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age]( Roger Fielding, Tufts University As people age, the chemical signaling pathways in muscles become less potent, and it gets harder to build muscle and maintain strength. But the health benefits of strength training only increase with age. Facebook With pressure from the European Union, Apple has thrown in the towel on its Lightning connector, left, in favor of the standard USB-C, right. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images [What is USB-C? A computer engineer explains the one device connector to rule them all]( Shreyas Sen, Purdue University With Apple’s capitulation on the latest iPhone models, USB-C is poised to become the standard connector for all devices. - [Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a ‘Mexican Halloween’]( Mathew Sandoval, Arizona State University Halloween’s influence is transforming popular festivities around Día de los Muertos and its ceremonial customs in rural and urban areas of Mexico in some fascinating ways. - [How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago]( Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University; Sean Liddick, Michigan State University Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George de Hevesy’s research on radioactive tracers is one such example. Mastodon Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, ‘Only for Aryans,’ in August 1938 in Vienna. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum /Provenance: Leo Spitzer [How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history]( Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis. - [What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?]( Joshua Holzer, Westminster College Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings. - [‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time]( David B. 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