Availability of community-based fitness classes leads to increased activity levels
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Dec. 12, 2016) -- Physical inactivity is a global health problem that leads to approximately 3.2 million deaths each...
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The antibody that normalizes tumor vessels
Credit: IBS An important parcel must be delivered to the correct place. It is so important that it can be a question of life or...
Antarctic site promises to open a new window on the cosmos
Credit: Xue-Fei Gong/Purple Mountain Observatory Antarctica might be one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet, but it is a mecca for astronomers. Its...
UK steel production to benefit from efficiency innovation
Credit: WMG/University of Warwick WMG research to make UK steel production cheaper, and cut energy consumption by 300% Belt casting technology - can minimize or...
Study uncovers details of information processing in the brain
Credit: Dawn Graves EDMONTON (Monday, December 5, 2016)--You're in a crowded lecture theatre. Around you are a million tiny distractions: someone rustling in their bag;...
Smoking down, number of lives saved up as more countries embrace tobacco control measures
Credit: GUMC WASHINGTON (Dec. 12, 2016) -- Between 2008 and 2014, more than 53 million people in 88 countries stopped smoking due to tobacco control...
What is the most effective treatment for endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2016--A new study comparing the effectiveness of oral progestogens versus a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system...
Enzyme that regulates DNA repair may offer new precision treatments for breast and ovarian cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an enzyme called UCHL3 that regulates the BRCA2 pathway, which is important for DNA repair. Results...
Scientists work to improve the diet and energy of failing hearts
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 12, 2016) - Our hearts use fat for fuel but as with the rest of our bodies, it's all...
EMBO Installation Grants to support 10 researchers in establishing laboratories
Credit: EMBO "Through the Installation Grants we encourage some of the best early-career researchers to share their expertise across Europe by setting up laboratories in...
Predator invasion had devastating, long-term effects on native fish
Credit: Diana Sharpe In 1969, 60 to 100 peacock bass imported from Buga, Colombia, were introduced into a pond in Panama for sport fishing. Several...
Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Weather detected on HAT-P-7b - a planet 16x larger than Earth, over 1000 light years away First ever gas giant...
ALMA finds compelling evidence for pair of infant planets around young star
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); A. Isella; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky worlds roughly the size of...
Rings around young star suggest planet formation in progress
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 12, 2016) - Rice University astronomers and their colleagues have for the first time mapped gases in three...
Researchers’ discovery of new verbal working memory architecture has implications for AI
The neural structure we use to store and process information in verbal working memory is more complex than previously understood, finds a new study by...
