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Probiotic Supplement Use Associated With Fewer Respiratory Symptoms in Overweight and Older People

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Findings provide further evidence of relationship between the gut and lungs. Daily probiotic use was associated with fewer upper respiratory symptoms in overweight and older people, according to a study that suggests a potential role...
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Hidden Processes Revealed at Work in the Hearts of Massive Stars

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A simulation of a 3-solar-mass star shows the central, convective core and the waves it generates in the rest of the star’s interior. Credit: Philipp Edelmann Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as the chemical...
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Revolutionary Eco-Friendly Plastic: The Future Looks Bright for Infinitely Recyclable Plastic

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Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a revolutionary eco-friendly plastic is almost ready to hit the shelves. Plastics...
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The First Frost Is the Deepest – New Discovery May Help Us Grow Crops in Fluctuating Climate

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Frost on Arabidopsis thaliana — new discovery may help us grow crops in fluctuating climate. Credit: John Innes Centre The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it...
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water

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Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree as the food we eat and the water we...
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Accidental Release From a Lab or Zoonotic Spillover? Scientists Call for Investigation Into the Origins of COVID-19

American Association for the Advancement of Science -
Letter From Scientists: Investigate the Origins of COVID-19 More investigation is needed to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, say Jesse Bloom, Alina Chan, Ralph Baric, David Relman and colleagues in this Letter. “Theories of...
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Evolutionary Biologists Just Discovered How Some Lizards Are Able to Breathe Underwater

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Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards, or anoles, are able to...
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How to Cloak an Object to Become Invisible to a Thermal Camera

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Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object. Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat that we can feel is...
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Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore

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A reconstruction of the brown-bear-sized mammals (Coryphodon) that made thousands of tracks in a 58-million-year-old, brackish water lagoon in what is now southern Wyoming. Credit: Anton Wroblewski Today, the rocks of the Hanna Formation in...
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Dominant COVID-19 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies

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Supercomputer simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated that the G form of SARS-CoV-2, the dominant strain of the virus causing COVID-19, mutated to a conformation that allows it to more easily attach to...
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African Forest Elephants Are Now Critically Endangered – Here’s How to Count Them

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A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. Credit: WCS Gabon Study compared different...
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Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets

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Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn’t fully explain this, but now, a Physical Review...
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Signs of a Puzzling State of Matter Discovered in a Superconductor

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Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity with 100% efficiency at relatively high temperatures. They glimpsed the...
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Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots

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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 Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery...
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Of Mice and Spacemen: Understanding Astronaut Muscle Wasting at the Molecular Level

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Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting at the molecular level. Most of us have imagined how free...
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Critically Endangered Iconic Great Apes in Borneo Lost Muscle During Fruit Shortages

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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 Orangutan Research Project Highlights Need to Protect Orangutan Habitat Wild orangutans are...
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Largest-Ever Effort to Artificially Inseminate Sharks – And the Occasional “Virgin Birth”

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A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It’s a tough time to be a shark. Pollution, industrialized fishing, and climate change threaten marine life, and...
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Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager

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An illustration depicting one of NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Both Voyagers have entered interstellar space, or the space outside our Sun’s heliosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are...
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DNA Analysis Identifies First Member of Ill-Fated 1845 Franklin Expedition

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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, a team of researchers have identified the remains of John...
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Handheld “MasSpec Pen” Reveals Meat and Fish Fraud in Seconds

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The MasSpec Pen can authenticate the type and purity of meat samples in as little as 15 seconds. Credit: Adapted from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c07830 Meat and fish fraud are...
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Preliminary Data Suggests Mixing COVID-19 Vaccines Increases Frequency of Adverse Reactions

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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 either mixed dosing schedule Adverse reactions were short-lived, with no other...
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Study Shows New Obesity Treatment Semaglutide Reduces Body Weight Regardless of Patient Characteristics

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Females and those with lower body weight have better results. New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) shows that treatment with the drug semaglutide reduces body weight in...
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No Lasting Benefit to Surgically Placed Tubes Over Antibiotics for Childhood Ear Infections

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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 the ensuing two years compared with giving oral antibiotics to...
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New Research Shows COVID-19 Alters Gray Matter Volume in the Brain

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Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain, according to a new study led by researchers at Georgia State University and...
Health

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

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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 from cardiovascular diseases may benefit from boosting a biomarker found...
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