Most women gain weight during pregnancy – typically only a few pounds, but pronounced and permanent approximately one-fifth of the time.Given that a high body…
“The results are indeed alarming for these severely obese adolescents, who run a serious risk of disease and social marginalisation,” says Claude Marcus,…
Today the concept of nationalism often has negative connotations, as it is associated with extremist groups in society. These groups have appropriated…
Biking, running and walking are all good for you. But the strain can be tough if you're overweight, have arthritis or suffer from other joint problems or…
Researchers from Yale University identified eight different tetracycline resistance genes among U.S. honeybees that were exposed to the antibiotic, but the…
More soda consumption and screen time meant students were more likely to be overweight or to gain weight. The more frequently students ate meals each day, the…
The researchers have developed a new technique that allowed them to test 15 times more bacterial genes than had been evaluated in the previous 30 years to…
Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has found that the…
Heidelberg University Hospital’s Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT) started up its unique beam guide system (gantry), the only one of its kind in the…
Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated the first solar cell with external quantum efficiency (EQE) exceeding 100…
However, man's knowledge of micro- and nanoscale heat flow is rudimentary at best. Now, a research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign…
Materials boasting a “tunable” refractive index have been developed within the past few years, and they show tremendous potential for photovoltaic…
Learning more about this process could prove useful for stem cell-based therapies down the road. New research from a team led by Carnegie's Yixian Zheng zeroes…
Now researchers from Columbia University in New York, N.Y., and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have discovered two new conditions for…
By using a variety of materials not commonly associated with MEMS technology, a team from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah has created stronger…
Canadian scientists have discovered that a protein called resistin, secreted by fat tissue, causes high levels of “bad” cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein or…
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