There appears to be an upper limit to how big the Universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Higher prenatal fish consumption leads to better physical and cognitive development in infants, according to a study of mothers and infants from Denmark. Longer breastfeeding was also independently beneficial.
Scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals.
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New research has identified a specific protein essential for the process of long term memory consolidation. The process of memory creation and consolidation is the first to be affected in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s; understanding the biological mechanisms of this process brings us one step closer to finding a treatment for these incurable [...]
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New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that are profoundly influencing marine life and the world’s climate. These massive swirling structures — the largest are known as gyres — can be thousands of kilometers across and can extend down as deep as 500 meters or more, new [...]
A new UCLA study disputes controversial legislation like Prop. 209 that claimed campus policies to promote student-body diversity were unnecessary and discriminatory. UCLA researchers found that medical students who undergo training in racially diverse schools feel better equipped to care for patients in a diverse society.
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With energy prices driving the cost of agricultural inputs up, nutrient-rich manure is getting another look.
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A new study finds that lung cancer death rates among never-smokers are highest among men, African-Americans and Asians residing in Asia.
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Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances. The signals the researchers detected originated in dendritic cells — the sentinels of the immune system that do the initial detection of microscopic invaders — and was received by nearby T-cells, which [...]
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A new drug therapy may represent a tremendous step forward in the treatment of some 70,000 cystic fibrosis patients worldwide. One of the researchers said, “The early results with VX-770 suggest that drug therapies which target defects at the root of the disease have the potential to improve greatly the quality of life of CF [...]
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