Big dogs versus small dogs: Which sizes face higher risks of which diseases?
A study of more than 25,000 U.S. dogs and 238 breeds has linked dog size to varying patterns of risk for health conditions over the...
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Dancing is an effective way for overweight and obese people to lose weight and fat, per meta-analysis
Dancing is an effective way for overweight and obese people to lose weight and fat, per meta-analysisCredit: eommina, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Dancing is an effective...
Researchers chronicle lifetime travels of a single woolly mammoth which wandered the north more than 14,000 years ago
Attention editors: Embargoed by Science Advances until Wednesday, January 17th, 2 p.m. eastern Credit: Sidney Roth/McMaster University Attention editors: Embargoed by Science Advances until Wednesday,...
Mothers with high levels of dental plaque are 8 times more likely to transfer Candida albicans, involved in tooth decay, to their babies, underlining the need for moms to keep their own teeth clean
Mothers with high levels of dental plaque are 8 times more likely to transfer Candida albicans, involved in tooth decay, to their babies, underlining the...
Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the...
Certain personality traits linked to college students’ sense of belonging
In a study of nearly 5,000 North American first-year college students, those who were more extraverted, more agreeable, or less neurotic were more likely to...
New research tool seeks to accelerate hunt for cancer immunotherapy targets
An innovative computational tool dubbed “SNAF” may help the research world bring the emerging promise of cancer immunotherapy to a wider range of patients, according...
$24 million grant to extend Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR)
Researchers at UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente Division of Research have received a $24 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of...
Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky. Birds chirp, and tall grasses blow in the breeze....
ASBMB names Mona V. Miller as next executive officer
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology today named Mona V. Miller its next chief executive officer, effective April 1.Credit: Courtesy of the American...
National collaborative for health equity roundtable: a call for unity and the power of racial healing
A new Roundtable discussion in the peer-reviewed journal Health Equity explores the results of a poll conducted by the National Collaborative for Health Equity (NCHE), called...
Long live the graphene valley state
In quantum computing, the question as to what physical system, and which degrees of freedom within that system, may be used to encode quantum bits...
Columbia chemists create the first 2D heavy fermion
Researchers at Columbia University have successfully synthesized the first 2D heavy fermion material. They introduce the new material, a layered intermetallic crystal composed of cerium,...
Aston University AI project aims to make international health data sharing easier
Credit: Aston University Project to improve sharing data while complying with general data protection regulation (GDPR) guidelines Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies awarded almost...
Origin of intense light in supermassive black holes and tidal disruption events revealed
A new study by Hebrew University is a significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) involving supermassive black holes. The new simulations, for the...
