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Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, according to researchers from McGill University and colleagues in Italy. Their researc

News Archive Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste April 26, 2022 An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can b

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While assisted living communities have become a more common residential care choice for older Americans who require assistance with daily care needs and other supportive services, regulation of these

AUSTIN, Texas – Entrepreneurs who find themselves in over their heads could be better off hiring specialists than investing to improve their own skills, according to a study from researchers at The Un

Is exercise really that important to individual’s mental health? A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that exercise is related to lower levels of depression, even for people who are doing

The Event Horizon Collaboration, the group behind the first-ever image of a black hole, just achieved another huge accomplishment: an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky

Abstract The microbiota-gut-brain axis has emerged as a novel target in depression, a disorder with low treatment efficacy. However, the field is dominated by underpowered studies focusing on major d

Twitter can be a negative place, but in 2019, researchers found a simple intervention that could skew people’s tweets in a more positive direction: going to a park. Using the “Hedonometer,” a tool th

Particles of SARS-CoV-2 (blue; artificially coloured) bud from a dying intestinal cell.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL In the chaos of the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, oncologist and gene

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According to a study published in Science Translational Medicine, the very treatments often used to treat chronic lower back pain may actually cause it to last longer. Persistent use of pain-relieving

New research provides evidence that young women’s consumption of reality television is indirectly associated with increased acceptance of sexualized aggression such as groping and coercive tactics. Th

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DALLAS – May 11, 2022 – For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gu

Scientists were aware there was a huge object hidden at the centre of the Milky Way, and they also knew it had no hair. The EHT collaboration has now obtained the very first image of Sagittarius A*, t

Davis, Calif., May 10, 2022—Healthy adults who eat a diverse diet with at least 8-10 grams of soluble fiber a day have fewer antibiotic-resistant microbes in their guts, according to a study published

‘We have overcome a major hurdle’ to restore hearing, investigators say Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have

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Researchers have shown for the first time in mice that heart problems associated with the flu are not caused by raging inflammation in the lungs, as has long been predicted. Instead, the Ohio State U

A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the estimated average rate of officer-involved shootings increased by 12.9 percent in 10 U.S. states that

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A first-of-its-kind study from researchers at McGill University has investigated the relationship between certain cancers and people living in close proximity to wildfires. The findings revealed highe

A wide variety of historical, economic and cultural forces combine to allow a larger percentage of whites to climb up the socioeconomic ladder than Blacks and Hispanics. Some people call the combined

Rising levels of income inequality in the United States may be one reason that the health of Americans has been declining in recent decades, new research suggests. The study found that the level of i

Neoliberalism, which calls for free-market capitalism, regressive taxation, and the elimination of social services, has resulted in both preference and support for greater income inequality over the p

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Effective anti-vaping advertisements geared to teens have the greatest impact when they emphasize the adverse consequences and harms of vaping e-cigarettes, use negative imagery, and avoid memes, hash

Imagine your garbage disposal is on the fritz. After a few futile attempts to fix it yourself, you reach for your phone. Although you intend to call the plumber, you suddenly realize that you have in

A new study has found that hedge funds with the highest level of automation outperform those that rely more on human involvement. During the period that was studied (2006 to 2021), the AI-based hedge

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have encouraged mitigation strategies like masking and vaccination to help reduce the spread of the virus. A new study suggests a perso

Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist presents a very different picture: When rural poor peo

SPOKANE, Wash. – Young adults who were at risk of food insecurity had increased incidence of diabetes 10 years later, according to a Washington State University study. While previous research has ass

"I think people are already quite concerned about climate change and it is worrying, it is showing that we continue to warm the planet and we're getting closer to this first threshold that was set in