The study, led by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that people with class III (or…
A study conducted by scientists in Brazil and the United Kingdom has quantified the impact that selective logging, partial destruction by burning, and…
It is well documented that children with obese parents are at greater risk for obesity. In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital,…
Moreover, this finding holds true regardless of socio-economic status. This suggests that children with learning difficulties might benefit from teaching…
“With summer in full swing and kids sitting on the couch, parents are wondering whether to push them to find a job,” says Sauder professor Marc-David L….
Ripping a page from the Star Trek script, specialized cells of the barrier that lines the inside of the intestines and airways of humans have invoked a…
Many developed regions in China are not only drawing from their own water resources but also contributing to water depletion in other water-scarce regions of…
While cigarette use is declining precipitously among youth, evidence indicates that American adolescents are turning to ethnically-linked alternative tobacco…
Babies' growth in the womb and their size at birth, especially their length, are strikingly similar the world over – when babies are born to healthy,…
The CGA, first developed in the 1930s, is a multidimensional diagnostic process that looks at a frail elderly person's medical, psychosocial, and functional…
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms can profoundly alter the way we experience the world but little is known about what physically happens in the…
New research from Carnegie Mellon University is the first to show that brief mindfulness meditation practice – 25 minutes for three consecutive days –…
In a study published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, the UB researchers found that fear and worry about skin cancer had a bigger influence on people’s…
New research at UC Berkeley has found that people are better and faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and several fingers.
To limit climate change to 2° Celsius, low-carbon energy options will need additional investments of about US $800 billion a year globally from now to…
The researchers examined 15 years of migration data for more than 7,000 families in Indonesia and found that increases in temperature and, to a lesser extent,…
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