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International Congress on Gait & Mental Function

This interaction between human movement and mental and cognitive processes will be the overriding topic at a congress that will be organized by the Radboud…

Health & Medicine

Preventing Stunting and Deaths in Young Children in Poor Countries

Professor Simon Cousens, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is one of the authors of a paper which appears as part of the Lancet Maternal and…

Environmental Conservation

Wood Floor Finishes Linked to PCB Exposure: New Research Insights

PCBs are persistent organic pollutants identified worldwide as human blood and breast milk contaminants. They were widely used in industry as cooling and…

Health & Medicine

Uncovering the Global Tobacco Lobby: Insights from UCSF Research

Patricia McDaniel, Gina Intinarelli and Ruth Malone from the University of California, San Francisco dug deep into documentary data from tobacco industry…

Environmental Conservation

Herons Thrive in Chicago Wetlands Amid Chemical Concerns

The findings appear in the current issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research.University of Illinois veterinary biosciences scientist Jeff Levengood led the…

Health & Medicine

Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Not Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

The study involved 929 Catholic clergy members who were an average of 75 years old, free of dementia at the beginning of the study and enrolled in the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UBC Discovery Enhances Tree Genetics for Pine Beetle Defense

Assoc. Prof. Joerg Bohlmann says this genetic analysis will allow forest stewardship programs to reinforce a forest’s inherent strength, breeding trees that…

Health & Medicine

Fish oil — helpful or harmful?

Fish oil supplements may help some cardiac patients while harming others, suggests a new review of evidence compiled by St. Michael’s Hospital and University…

Studies and Analyses

Sea Otter Study Uncovers Diverse Diets and Feeding Strategies

The new findings by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…

Environmental Conservation

Heavy Metal Declines in UK Air Quality Over 25 Years

Air quality in the UK has improved significantly over the last 25 years according to a report published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Monitoring…

Environmental Conservation

Starfish Outbreak Poses Threat to Coral Reefs

The starfish – a predator that feeds on corals by spreading its stomach over them and using digestive enzymes to liquefy tissue – were discovered in large…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Decision-Making Deficits in Older Adults

Recent work led by University of Iowa neuroscientist Natalie Denburg, Ph.D., suggests that for a significant number of older adults, measurable…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies Glow to Reveal Cancer Prevention Signals

The glow, the result of some tinkering in Drosophila, the workhorse of the genetics world, lets researchers know when powerful cancer-prevention signals…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Carrots: A Surprising Source of Calcium for Better Health

Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife’s Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center studied the calcium intake of humans who ate the carrot and found a net increase in…

Health & Medicine

New Method Blocks Immune Cell Movement to Injury Sites

Researchers have found a way to selectively block the ability of white blood cells to “crawl” toward the sites of injury and infection when such mobility…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Mitigation by Biomass – Full SRU Report available in English

In this advice, the Council argues that energy from biomass is a finite resource, which needs to be used carefully in order to maximize its greenhouse gas…

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