The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
That fit people have a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases is a recurring result i ...View More
Throwing a 'spanner in the works' of our cells' machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease... and hair loss
Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in ...View More
A mysterious pathogen: Oropouche virus more common in Latin America than previously thought
Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indicat ...View More
Fishing for cephalopod DNA allows for efficient marine surveying
New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep ...View More
Recently discovered immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies
The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless ...View More
Breaking a century-old physics barrier: perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders
A joint research team from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) and Jeonbuk Nationa ...View More
'Internet of nature' helps researchers explore the web of life
A novel paper led by Dr Ulrich Brose of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDi ...View More
New warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- in reverse
A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turn ...View More
New study validates lower limits of human heat tolerance
A study from the University of Ottawa's Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit (HEPRU) has ...View More
Clinical trial unearths hidden hypertension with automated searches of health records
A new study from investigators at Mass General Brigham shows that clues about hypertension may be bu ...View More
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