Early signs of anxiety, depression may be evident in the brains of newborns
Washington, DC, February 1, 2017 - Early predictors of anxiety and depression may be evident in the brain even at birth, suggests a study published...
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Fast food packaging contains potentially harmful chemicals that can leach into food
Newton, Mass. (Feb. 1, 2017) - Many Americans, with the start of the New Year, will resolve to cut back on fast food to avoid...
Tracking fishing vessels and sharks reveals protection for large mobile animals
Loading video... Credit: Global Fishing Watch New research published in the journal Biological Conservation sheds light on the contentious debate surrounding large Marine Protected Areas...
Some fast-food packaging contains potentially harmful fluorinated compounds
Credit: American Chemical Society Grease-proof packaging has helped make pizzas, burgers and tacos on-the-go a less messy proposition. However, a new study in the ACS...
A closer look at what caused the Flint water crisis
Flint, Michigan, continues to grapple with the public health crisis that unfolded as lead levels in its tap water spiked to alarming levels. Now the...
Celestial cat meets cosmic lobster
Credit: ESO NGC 6334 is located about 5500 light-years away from Earth, while NGC 6357 is more remote, at a distance of 8000 light-years. Both...
Transparent gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number...
High-resolution imaging reveals new understanding of battery cathode particles
Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab Using advanced imaging techniques, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been able to observe...
Understanding when eating soy might help or harm in breast cancer treatment
WASHINGTON -- Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have used animal models to reveal new information about the impact - positive and negative - that...
Poor metabolic health in some normal-weight women may increase risk for colorectal cancer
Background: Even though poor metabolic health is usually associated with obesity, 30 percent of normal-weight adults are believed to be metabolically unhealthy worldwide, according to...
Coastal wetlands excel at storing carbon
Credit: Howard et al., 2017, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment In the global effort to mitigate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, all options...
Older Canadians skip meds due to cost, putting them at risk for complications
Credit: Sachi Wickramasinghe, UBC One in 12 Canadians aged 55 and older skipped prescriptions due to cost in 2014, the second-highest rate among comparable countries,...
Virginia Tech team reduces structural vibrations with simple, groundbreaking device
Credit: Virginia Tech A revolutionary portable device invented by Virginia Tech architecture professor Mehdi Setareh with help from students promises to make structural vibration-reducing technolog..
Tuberculosis-resistant cows developed for the first time using CRISPR technology
CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology has been used for the first time to successfully produce live cows with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis, reports new research published...
Big data brings breast cancer research forwards by ‘decades’
Scientists have created a 'map' linking the shape of breast cancer cells to genes turned on and off, and matched it to real disease outcomes,...
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