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Long-term stress linked to higher levels of obesity

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People who suffer long-term stress may also be more prone to obesity. Image credit:Marjan Lazarevski People who suffer long-term stress may also be more prone...
Air pollution may have masked mid 20th Century sea ice loss

Air pollution may have masked mid-20th Century sea ice loss

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Melt pools on melting sea-ice. New research shows humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought. Credit: NASA Humans may have...
Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery

Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery

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MAMMOTH-1 is an extended blob of gas in the intergalactic medium called an enormous Lyman-alpha nebula (ELAN). The color map and contours denote the...
Diabetic mice on fasting mimicking diet repair insulin producing pancreas cells

Fasting-mimicking diet may reverse diabetes

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This visual abstract depicts the findings of Cheng et al., who show a short-term diet that mimics periodic fasting modulates b-cell number and promotes...
Sugars tipping point link to Alzheimers disease revealed

Sugar’s ‘tipping point’ link to Alzheimer’s disease revealed

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Professor Jean van den Elsen and Dr Omar Kassar in the laboratory. They have worked to reveal a molecular link between sugar and Alzheimer's...

Tired teens 4.5 times more likely to commit crimes as adults

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Teenagers who self-report feeling drowsy mid-afternoon also tend to exhibit more anti-social behavior such as lying, cheating, stealing and fighting. Now, research from the...
Common roundworm found to farm the bacteria it eats

Common roundworm found to farm the bacteria it eats

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Princeton University researchers have found that the roundworms Caenorhabditis elegans have a sure-fire method of ensuring a steady supply of a bacteria they eat...
Researchers discover link between aging devastating lung disease

Researchers discover link between aging, devastating lung disease

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A chest radiograph of a patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Credit: Wikimedia A Mayo Clinic study has shown evidence linking the biology of aging...
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Scientists close in on cracking ‘Enigma Code’ of common cold

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Scientists at the Universities of York, Leeds, and Helsinki say they are a step closer to cracking, what scientists have called, the ‘Enigma Code’...
Neural networks promise sharpest ever images

Neural networks promise sharpest ever images

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The frames here show an example of an original galaxy image (left), the same image deliberately degraded (second from left), the image after recovery...
Resveratrol may be an effective intervention for lung aging

Resveratrol may be an effective intervention for lung aging

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Purple grapes contain resveratrol.Image credit: Flickr/Stefano Mortellaro In a study led by Barbara Driscoll, PhD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles,...