The DASH diet was initially developed to help patients lower their blood pressure, but a large study demonstrates that women who followed the diet also significantly reduced their risk of developing heart failure.
Researchers reveal how comets become full of dust grains
Petal cells provide footholds for pollinators
How the brain reacts to vicarious reward; potential sea level rise from collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet; monies budgeted for U.S. science; and more.
Researchers have discovered where basking sharks — the world’s second largest fish — hide out for half of every year. The discovery revises scientists’ understanding of the iconic species and highlights just how little we still know about even the largest of marine animals, the researchers said.
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Acyclovir, a drug widely used as a safe and effective treatment to suppress herpes simplex virus-2, which is the most common cause of genital herpes, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by people infected with both HIV and HSV-2.
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Dengue fever is the most common infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes — some 100 million people around the world are infected. A new three-dimensional model shows the location in the human cell where the virus is reproduced. This research provides an insight into the exact process of viral replication and serves as a model for [...]
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For many women, body image is a constant struggle; a poor self-image can lead to a host of both mental and physical health problems. But a new study finds that an extremely good body image can also take its toll on a woman’s health.
Archaeologist report that the 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a human, and one of the oldest known examples of figurative art worldwide, was made at least [...]
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Laboratory experiments have demonstrated the immunological effects of ginseng. Researchers have shown that the herb, much used in traditional Chinese and other Asian medicine, does have anti-inflammatory effects.