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Health & Medicine

Breastfeeding Shields Kids From Peptic Ulcer Bacteria

In addition, breastfeeding and better hygiene appear to protect against infection. The results provide hope for a vaccine, according to research from the…

Environmental Conservation

Sweden’s Climate Actions: Economic Opportunities and Solidarity

Opportunities for economic development and the link with justice issues are both key explanations for Sweden's actions during the climate negotiations, reveals…

Life & Chemistry

Beewolves Use Antibiotics to Safeguard Their Offspring

Digger wasps of the genus Philanthus, so-called beewolves, house beneficial bacteria on their cocoons that guarantee protection against harmful microorganisms….

Studies and Analyses

A mother's sensitivity may help language growth in children with autism spectrum disorder

A new study by researchers from the University of Miami shows that maternal sensitivity may influence language development among children who go on to develop…

Studies and Analyses

Novel Compound CS-8958 Shows Promise Against Avian Influenza

The work, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens on Feb. 26, suggests that the compound CS-8958 is a promising alternative antiviral…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategy Yields 2 Prototype Drugs for Cancer, Retinal Diseases

A comprehensive drug development strategy that starts with extensive screening of potential targeting agents and then narrows down to a small-molecule…

Life & Chemistry

NOAA, NASA and Old Dominion Researchers Measure Impacts of Changing Climate on Ocean Biology

A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide…

Life & Chemistry

The mathematics behind a good night's sleep

Despite decades of research, answers to these basic questions about one of our most essential bodily functions remain exceptionally difficult to answer. In…

Studies and Analyses

Revamping Beluga Sturgeon Management: Study Reveals Urgent Need

A first-of-its-kind study of a Caspian Sea beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fishery demonstrates current harvest rates are four to five times higher than those that…

Health & Medicine

Proton Beam Therapy Improves Outcomes for Sinonasal Cancer Patients

Sinonasal cancers are very rare but aggressive types of cancer. Patients usually present with advanced stage with tumors involving normal structures in the…

Life & Chemistry

Can a single layer of cells control a leaf's size?

Ever looked carefully at the leaves on a plant and noticed their various sizes and shapes? Why are they different? What controls the size and shape of each…

Physics & Astronomy

Princeton Scientists Unveil New Equation for Materials Innovation

By reworking a theory first proposed by physicists in the 1920s, the researchers discovered a new way to predict important characteristics of a new material…

Studies and Analyses

Video Games Aid Depression Relief in Older Adults

The study, led by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Distinguished Professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at UCSD School of Medicine, Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in…

Life & Chemistry

Emerging Tick-Borne Disease: Impacts on Global Health Today

Stories of environmental damage and their consequences always seem to take place far away and in another country, usually a tropical one with lush rainforests…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Advances in Nanocomposite Nanostructures

Recent years have seen significant advances in the properties achieved by both these materials, and so researchers have begun to blend these materials into…

Physics & Astronomy

UCLA 'dark matter' conference highlights new research on mysterious cosmic substance

Dark matter, for more than 70 years as mysterious and unknowable a subject to science as the legendary island of Atlantis has been to history, is bringing 140…

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