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 Trumbo has tried tDCS dozens of times, he does not use it to boost his...
London in the present day. Research shows that the Great Smog event of 1952 in London likely still affects some people's health more than 60 years later. London still has smoggy days today.
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London's Great Smog...
The vegetarian diet was found to be almost twice as effective in reducing body weight than the conventional diet.
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Dieters who go vegetarian not only lose weight more effectively than those on conventional low-calorie diets...
Eating nuts may reduce the risk of heart disease.
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People who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease compared to people who...
The L194P egg-adaptive mutation dramatically increases the motility of the major epitope on the hemagglutinin of influenza H3 viruses. Red: high motility; white: medium motility; blue: low motility.
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According to a new study from scientists at The...
Roasted crickets and cricket energy bars.
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Australian consumers in Adelaide are taking part in a University of Adelaide research study to help realize the potential for edible insects as a food industry.
Consumer attitudes are being put...
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 the Kissimmee River in central Florida. This ecosystem-scale restoration project began two decades ago and is used as an example in the study.
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"Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature 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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It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for the day.
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It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for...
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation, pain, and eventually destruction of the tissues that make up this essential body part.
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A research team led by...
