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...
There are changes in the dopamine and serotonin systems in the brains of participants of spiritual retreats.
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More Americans than ever are turning to spiritual, meditative and religious retreats as a way to reset their daily...
Drivers who used alcohol, marijuana, or both were significantly more likely to be responsible for causing fatal two-vehicle crashes compared to drivers who were involved in the same crashes but used neither of the substances.
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The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research.
A study by Prof Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün from The...
These are MRIs of healthy (left) and a patient with a mutation that increases CCM formation (right). These lesions can cause blood to leak into the tissue.
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A study in mice and humans suggests that...
People who were sleeping on average around six hours a night had a waist measurement that was 3cm greater than individuals who were getting nine hours of sleep a night.
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Adults in the UK who have...
This is a photograph of a WRAIR Pilot Bioproduction Facility. Credit: WRAIR
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and collaborators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have completed a promising preclinical study of...
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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Americans love sugar. Together we consumed nearly 11 million metric tons of it in 2016,...
New findings are important because they offer a new perspective on the cause of race-based bias.
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Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and...
"It's critical that adults aim for seven to nine hours of sleep each night to receive the health benefits of sleep, but this is especially true for those battling a chronic condition," said Dr. M. Safwan Badr.
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The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades, warn a team of international experts in The BMJ.
They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in...
