Indigenous South American group has healthiest arteries of all populations yet studied, providing clues...
Village in the Amazon rain forest (stock image).
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The Tsimane people -- a forager-horticulturalist population of the Bolivian Amazon -- have...
Eruptions on the sun trigger surprising phenomenon near Earth
In connection with violent solar eruptions, large variations occur in electron density in the ionosphere over Greenland, which interferes with GPH navigation signals as...
Link between Vitamin D treatment and autism prevention
In human studies, researchers recently found a link between pregnant women with low Vitamin D levels and the increased likelihood of having a child...
Intensive medical treatment can reverse type 2 diabetes
One in 10 American adults has type 2 diabetes, according to experts. The condition occurs when an individual doesn't produce enough insulin or the...
Daily consumption of tea protects the elderly from cognitive decline
NUS researchers found that regular consumption of tea brewed from tea leaves reduces elderly persons’ risk of cognitive decline.
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Tea...
For female mosquitoes, two sets of odor sensors are better than one
This scanning electron microscope image of the head of a female Anopheles mosquito shows the antennae, proboscis and palps that contain its olfactory system.
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Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen Probes
During a strong geomagnetic storm, electrons at relativistic energies, which are usually only found in the outer radiation belt, are pushed in close to...
Unproven stem cell ‘therapy’ blinds three patients at Florida clinic
Jeffrey Goldberg and his colleagues examined the cases of three women who were blinded after undergoing an unproven stem cell treatment for macular degeneration.
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Rare cricket family sheds light on extinct Jurassic species’ acoustics
Picture of Cyphoderis monstrosa.
Credit: Piotr Naskrecki
World-first research into a rare family of insects will help scientists understand how the common bush-crickets we are familiar...
Streamlining the measurement of phonon dispersion
Picture of the high energy resolution electron source developed by Bocquet and co-workers. Due to the geometrical constraints induced by the use of a...
Scientists develop light-controllable tool to study CaMKII kinetics in learning and memory
This is a schematic of paAIP2. LOV2-J? domain derived from phototropin1 was fused to autocamtide-2 related inhibitory peptide 2 (AIP2). The blue light absorption...
