When stripes flash beneath the dish, the tadpole swims faster, so long as the stripes are really obvious. If they are faint, but they are paired with another faint stimulus such as touch or sound, the tadpole will be...
A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity.
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Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated...
More than 18 million Americans got their drinking water from systems with lead violations in 2015, according to a groundbreaking Natural Resources Defense Council report. The problem could be significantly more pervasive because many more water systems known to...
This is Kafuli Agbemenu, PhD, assistant professor in the UB School of Nursing.
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For years, research has shown that female Somali Bantu refugees may be hesitant to use hormonal birth control and other methods of family planning.
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Drinking four cups of coffee each day can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people, new research suggests.
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Higher coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of death, according to research...
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have performed the first CRISPR/Cas9 screen to discover human proteins that Zika virus needs for replication. This work, led by Abraham Brass, MD, PhD, assistant professor in microbiology & physiological...
This is a computed tomography (CT scan) of right humerus. Left image shows a horizontal slice through the cancerous lesion.
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A new report by Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues in the International Journal of Paleopathology identifies a bone tumor...
A new study examines the deep benefits of meditation and yoga.
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It's been debated for a long time, can yoga reverse DNA reactions? Mind-body interventions (MBIs) such as meditation, yoga and Tai Chi don't simply relax...
Low-calorie diets can extend longevity, but new research is the first to show that calorie restriction influences the body’s circadian rhythms’ involvement with the aging process in cells.
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cientists studying how aging affects the biological clock's...
José António Nhavoto.
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Mobile phone text messaging is a powerful tool for improving quality of care, as shown by José António Nhavoto in his doctoral thesis in informatics at Örebro University. He has developed and...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a fungus that compromises the immune system of mosquitoes, making them more susceptible to infection with the parasite that causes malaria. Because environmental microorganisms can vary greatly...
