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Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy
In her lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Pamela Weathers, professor of biology and biotechnology, has developed several high-producing cultivars of the plant Artemisia...
NASA’s Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of Sun’s interaction with...
New data from NASA's Cassini, Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer missions show that the heliosphere -- the bubble of the sun's magnetic influence that...
Obesity is top cause of preventable life-years lost, study shows
Obesity results in as much as 47% more life-years lost than tobacco, and tobacco caused similar life-years lost as high blood pressure.
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Brain stimulation during training boosts performance
Sandia National Laboratories cognitive scientist Mike Trumbo adjusts the placement of a transcranial direct current stimulation unit on cognitive scientist Laura Matzen's head. Though...
Physicists create ‘negative mass’
Artist's abstraction (stock image). Hypothetically, matter can have negative mass in the same sense that an electric charge can be either negative or positive....
Nut-cracking monkeys use shapes to strategize their use of tools
A bearded capuchin monkey cracks open a stably-placed palm nut with a stone for a hammer.
Credit: Barth Wright
Bearded capuchin monkeys deliberately place palm nuts...
Fungi have enormous potential for new antibiotics
While Penicillia are already industrially used in the production of antibiotics, other pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and in the manufacturing of food products, new research...
Atomic-level motion may drive bacteria’s ability to evade immune system defenses
The scientists conducted their experiments in Staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of skin, sinus and lung infections.
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A study...
Genetic evidence points to nocturnal early mammals
Many modern mammals, like this wood mouse, are nocturnal, thanks to evolutionary developments such as night vision in their distant ancestors, Stanford researchers say.
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Is soda bad for your brain? (And is diet soda worse?)
Matthew Pase is lead author on two studies that link higher consumption of both sugary and artificially sweetened drinks to adverse brain effects.
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Astronomers perform largest-ever survey of high-mass binary star systems
The Milky Way.
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In addition to solo stars like our Sun, the universe contains binary systems comprising two massive stars that...
