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A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an antibody that appears to block infection by a

Source: stokpic/Pixabay At first glance, it might seem nostalgic feelings about an ex-partner can have only a negative effect on your present relationships. But is this true? Could there be positive

Off the coast of Antarctica, trillions of tonnes of cold salty water sink to great depths. As the water sinks, it drives the deepest flows of the “overturning” circulation – a network of strong curren

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INDIANAPOLIS—For centuries, people have suspected a full moon in the sky to cause mysterious changes in people. Now, psychiatrists at Indiana University School of Medicine have found deaths by suicide

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Conclusion: Our findings suggest that distinct, OSA-driven processes may be sufficient for cognitive changes to occur as early as in middle age, in otherwise healthy individuals. Results: In our pati

Gendered sports uniforms play a “major role” in high drop-out rates of teenage girls in sport, according to UK research led by England hockey star Tess Howard, who found that 70% of girls dropping out

People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic huma

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Canada now has its first dire wolf. For the first time, a Canadian fossil has been confirmed as coming from the Ice Age predator featured in the TV series "Game of Thrones." The specimen, from near M

Human consumption of drug plants is a long-standing tradition1,2,3. By combining many different fields of study (Archaeology, Anthropology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Ethnobotany, and Iconography, among

In a field study, researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, followed the standard agricultural practices of herbicide application and investigated the impact of glyphosate residues in soil on t

The purpose of this study was to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the dietary habits of adults aged 40–100 years. The aim was to close the research gap by providing current evidence that

A recent study, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, conducted by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland, sheds light on the mechanisms of neural plasticity

Who can assess and diagnose cardiac function best after reading an echocardiogram: artificial intelligence (AI) or a sonographer? According to Cedars-Sinai investigators and their research published

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A series of four experiments provides evidence that people’s faces tend to be rated as more physically attractive when those people are perceived as honest. This was independent of gender or clothing

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Ear-resistible: why there are some songs we simply can't get out of our head A new study explains the kind of tunes we can’t seem to shake off. An essential characteristic is needed for a song to po

New study shows that tubes made from natural silk materials offer a promising way to repair large gap nerve injuries. Nerve cells migrated with ‘remarkable speed’ through the tubes to successfully re

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