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Environmental pollution exposure during pregnancy increases asthma risk for three generations
Los Angeles skyline, showing air pollution. (Stock image)
Credit: © Justin / Fotolia
Exposure to environmental pollutants during pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma for...
Language development starts in the womb
Kathleen Gustafson, a research associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Hoglund Brain Imaging Center (right), with...
Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries
Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.
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At the cellular level, a child’s loss of a father is associated with increased...
Father loss is clearly associated with cellular function as estimated by telomere length: any father loss between birth and 9 years of age leads...
Oxygen chamber can boost brain repair years after stroke or trauma
Volume rendered Brain SPECT perfusion maps. The results are of a patient in the treated group suffering from left hemiparesis due to ischemic stroke...
Oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses brain damage in drowned toddler
A low-risk medical treatment appears to have had a profound effect on the recovery of a toddler-age drowning victim who suffered serious neurological damage.
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Is this Gulf of Mexico tubeworm the longest living animal in the world?
The tubeworm species Escarpia laminata.
Credit: Image courtesy of the Chemo III project, BOEM and NOAA OER
Large tubeworms living in the cold depths of the...
Dig it! Two new shrimp species found in burrows at the bottom of the...
This is a female specimen of the new shrimp species Alpheus margaritae.
Credit: Dr. José Salgado-Barragán CC-BY 4.0
Although the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in...
The past, present and future of African dust
Arrival of a density current made visible by the soil particles it lifts as it progresses, in Hombori, Mali. This phenomenon, which is of...
Oil impairs ability of coral reef fish to find homes and evade predators
This is a damselfish of the Chromis species.
Credit: Jacob Johansen/Univ. of Texas at Austin
Just as one too many cocktails can lead a person to...
How cats and cows protect farm children from asthma
Milking cow (stock image).
Credit: © Ror / Fotolia
It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even...
