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Probiotics May Lower Allergy Risk in Cesarean Children

Childhood allergies have increased significantly in industrialized countries during the past few decades. Researchers theorize that this rising incidence is…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring 3-D Virtual Environments in Digital Photography Education

Researchers have been exploring the potential of 3-D Multi-User Virtual Environments (3-DMUVEs) in teaching university courses in Digital Photography. This…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Defect Linked to Common Human Epilepsy Uncovered

In a research published in the advanced online publication of the scientific magazine Nature Genetics, researchers have identified a genetic defect for common…

Health & Medicine

Telephone Support Post-Accident Boosts Recovery and Well-Being

During the two-year study, researchers from Umea University in Sweden followed up 568 car occupants, cyclists and pedestrians who had attended the same…

Science Education

Young Children Master Reading and Writing Skills Early

The material for the study is comprised of video recordings of children in a pre-school. The children are aged from eighteen months to three years old.The…

Business and Finance

We’re going on holiday – but where? – New model shows process of choosing holiday destinations

In the study, published in the magazine Tourism Management, Juan Luis Nicolau and Francisco Más analysed data from 2,491 people gathered by the CIS, and…

Environmental Conservation

Sponges in Coral Caves: A Key to Reef Survival

Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ensure the reef’s continued existence. Although sponges in these coral caves take up…

Environmental Conservation

Monitoring Harmful Substances in the Baltic Sea Region

In particular, there is little use of so-called biomarkers, early warning signs at a molecular and cell level. As a part of the joint European BONUS research…

Environmental Conservation

New Model for Managing Environmental Risks in Gulf of Finland

The assessment and prevention of these risks require more effective measures than at present. The Finnish-coordinated project of the joint Baltic Sea Research…

Environmental Conservation

Seabed Insights: Uncovering Baltic Sea Environmental Changes

By studying the seabed, we can obtain information about environmental changes in the Baltic Sea and the factors affecting them over several thousand years. The…

Physics & Astronomy

XMM-Newton Observes Fast Spin of Rare Soft Gamma-ray Repeater

There are just five so-called Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) known, four in the Milky Way and one in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Each is…

Earth Sciences

Lost & Found – prototype CO2-measuring drifter recovered from the tropical Atlantic after 7 weeks of silence

Researchers of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany received a special Christmas gift when their prototype profiling float…

Awards Funding

Wallace S. Broecker Wins BBVA Award for Climate Innovation

In 1975, Broecker published the article “Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” in the journal Science, marking the first ever…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Parasitism Evolution 150 Years After Darwin

150 years after Darwin’s epochal “On the Origin of Species” many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are…

Life & Chemistry

Tweet tweet, cheep cheep… earliest known bird had hearing similar to an emu

The earliest known bird, magpie-sized Archaeopteryx lithographica could hear just the same as a modern emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), demonstrating that…

Studies and Analyses

High Caffeine Intake May Increase Hallucination Risk

People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks, are more likely to report hallucinatory experiences such…

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