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Surprising link between athletics and addiction
Work-hard, play-hard culture may put elite athletes at higher risk of substance abuse
As she was planning her study to look into the role physical...
Married people have lower levels of stress hormone
Image credit: Flickr/Eric Fleming
Studies have suggested that married people are healthier than those who are single, divorced or widowed. A new Carnegie Mellon University...
Gluten-free diet may increase risk of arsenic, mercury exposure
Gluten-free products often contain rice flour as a substitute for wheat. Rice is known to bioaccumulate certain toxic metals, including arsenic and mercury from...
How eating less can slow the aging process
Recent research published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics offers one glimpse into how cutting calories impacts aging inside a cell.Image Credit: Flickr/jek-a-go-go
There's a...
Luminescence switchable carbon nanodots follow intracellular trafficking and drug delivery
'Caged' non-fluorescent carbon dot enters the cancer cell, loses its caging and lights up. Credit: University of Illinois
Tiny carbon dots have, for the first...
Researchers discover a new link to fight billion-dollar threat to soybean production
A nematode (the oblong object on the left) activates the vascular stem cell pathway in the developing nematode feeding site (syncytium) on a plant...
Team makes planet hunting a group effort, finds more than 100 candidates
Artist's conceptions of the probable planet orbiting a star called GJ 411. Credit: Ricardo Ramirez.
An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of...
Scientists uncover huge 1.8 million square kilometers reservoir of melting carbon under Western United...
scientists have used the world's largest array of seismic sensors to map a deep-Earth area of melting carbon covering 1.8 million square kilometres.Image Credit:...
Advanced EEG analysis reveals the complex beauty of the sleeping brain
Current sleep staging practice consists of visual analysis of 30-second segments of raw EEG wave forms (top) and subjective categorization into sleep stages to...
Study finds that people are attracted to outward signs of health, not actual health
Examples of color variation between pre- and post-supplementation byTreatment condition. The top photographs show the Beta-carotene participant, The bottom photographs show the placebo participant....
Now you can ‘build your own’ bio-bot
Schematic of a bio-bot: Engineered skeletal muscle tissue is coupled to a 3-D printed flexible skeleton. Optical stimulation of the muscle tissue, which is...
