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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in Risk of Brain Tumors

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Latest Study Finds No Increase in...

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Longstanding fears that using mobile phones may increase the risk of developing a brain tumor have been reignited recently by the launch of 5G...
The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart Disease

The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart...

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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up...
More Likely To Relapse: E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay off Cigarettes

More Likely To Relapse: E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay off Cigarettes

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Cigarette smokers who quit smoking but substitute e-cigarettes, or other tobacco product, are more likely to relapse. The United States Centers for Disease Control and...
New Fundamental Physics? Unexplainable Phenomena From Large Hadron Collider Experiment

New Fundamental Physics? Unexplainable Phenomena From Large Hadron Collider Experiment

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Experiment fully reconstructed. Particles identified as pions, kaon, etc. are shown in different colors. Credit: CERN, LHCb Collaboration Results announced by the Large Hadron Collider...
Researchers Warn: Common Antidepressant Should No Longer Be Used To Treat People With Dementia

Researchers Warn: Common Antidepressant Should No Longer Be Used To Treat...

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A drug used to treat agitation in people with dementia is no more effective than a placebo, and might even increase mortality, according to...
New Galaxy Images From the Most Powerful Telescopes Reveal a Fitful Start to the Universe

New Galaxy Images From the Most Powerful Telescopes Reveal a Fitful...

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Image from SHARDS study. Credit: SHARDS research team New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in the...
4 Reasons Americans Are Still Seeing Empty Shelves and Long Waits – With No End in Sight

4 Reasons Americans Are Still Seeing Empty Shelves and Long Waits...

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Consumers are still finding bare store shelves. Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every type...
Infrared Light Therapy Might Help People Living With Dementia

Infrared Light Therapy Might Help People Living With Dementia

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Tracy Sloan with the infrared light therapy helmet. Tracy used the helmet to try and help improve her memory. Credit: Durham University/North News &...
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Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets

Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing...

Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots

Traces of beeswax were detected in 3500 year-old clay pots like this. Credit: Peter Breunig, Goethe University Frankfurt Scientists at Goethe University and University...

Of Mice and Spacemen: Understanding Astronaut Muscle Wasting at the Molecular Level

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting...

Critically Endangered Iconic Great Apes in Borneo Lost Muscle During Fruit Shortages

A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan...

DNA Analysis Identifies First Member of Ill-Fated 1845 Franklin Expedition

Facial reconstruction of individual identified through DNA analysis as John Gregory, HMS Erebus. Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo With a living descendant’s DNA sample,...

Preliminary Data Suggests Mixing COVID-19 Vaccines Increases Frequency of Adverse Reactions

Research, from Com-COV study comparing mixed dosing schedules of Pfizer / Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, shows increase in the frequency of mild-moderate symptoms in those receiving...

No Lasting Benefit to Surgically Placed Tubes Over Antibiotics for Childhood Ear Infections

There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during...

Genetic Risk of Heart Disease May Be Due to Low Omega 3-Linked Biomarker Found in Fish Oils

Genetic Risk of Heart Disease May Be Due to Low Omega 3-Linked Biomarker Found in Fish Oils People who are genetically more likely to suffer...

Magnetoelectric Chips to Power More Efficient Computing Devices

Magnetoelectric Chips to Power a New Generation of More Efficient Computing Devices Harnessing the Hum of Fluorescent Lights for More Efficient Computing The property that makes...

Brand New Physics of Superconducting Metals – Busted

Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconducting metals is nothing but hot electrons after all. A team...
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