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Credit: Jonathan Holt A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a...

Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk

Credit: NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk...

Teens must ‘get smart’ about social media

Warning of effects on young adolescentsCredit: Flinders University New research indicates that social media is leading young adolescent girls and boys down a worrying path...

Purdue speech-language entrepreneur elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Credit: Jessica Huber/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Jessica Huber, a professor in Purdue University's Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, has been elected...

NASA finds second tropical system develops in Arabian Sea

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm 07A has developed in the eastern Arabian Sea, one day after Tropical Storm 06A developed in the western part of the...

Lack of specialists doom rural sick patients

Saint Louis University research finds higher death tolls, more hospitalizations in small town USACredit: Saint Louis University Residents of rural areas are more likely to...

Researcher receives NSF grant to study fate of terrestrial carbon in freshwater ecosystems

Credit: PhenoCam Network Carbon serves as the building block of life -- it cycles through every organism, the environment, and the atmosphere to make Earth...

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail

This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 and dissipated over the next...

Scientists use NSF grant to understand hydrologic controls on carbon processes in wetlands

Credit: Virginia Tech Wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle, aiding in the storage and distribution of this crucial energy resource. Now a...

How does protein fit in your holiday diet or New Year’s resolutions?

Study shows protein amounts larger than the recommended dietary allowance benefits only those who are cutting calories or strength trainingCredit: Shaw Nielsen While some diets...

Prostate cancer screening study boosted by Movember & Alberta Cancer Foundation campaigns

Clinical study of ClarityDX Prostate recruits 200 men from launchCredit: Perrin H Beatty Edmonton, Alberta - Nanostics Inc. announced today that from the launch of...

For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics

Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Tiny microplastic particles are about as common in the ocean today as plastic is in our daily lives. Synthetic clothing,...

Is disability a risk factor for miscarriage?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 3, 2019--A new study compared the proportion of women with any cognitive, physical, or independent...

GPS inventors honored by HRH the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace today

The 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is awarded to Dr. Brad Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, Dick Schwartz, and James Spilker, Jr.Credit: Photographer: Jason Alden. Courtesy...

UD engineering professor honored by National Academy of Inventors