Participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles — the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles — showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A, according to a new study. Exposure to BPA may have harmful health effects.
Eating fish — long considered ‘brain food’ — may really be good for the old grey matter, as is a healthy dose of sunshine, new research suggests.
Two speed measuring devices used by the law enforcement community — the down-the-road radar with which officers enforce automobile speed limits and the ballistic chronograph which tracks the velocity of bullets during testing of protective equipment — soon should be more useful tools thanks to new research.
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The effectiveness of an intermittent preventative treatment against malaria in infants across Africa may be inhibited by high incidences of malnutrition say researchers.
Scientists are aiming to improve the diagnosis of chlamydia, the most common cause of sexually transmitted infection globally. Researchers investigated a genetic deletion that matches the region targeted by the most widely used diagnostic tests, rendering them useless to detect infection by one strain of chlamydia, originating in Sweden. The team have identified regions that [...]
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Facial fractures from motor vehicle crashes appear to be decreasing, most likely due to design improvements in newer vehicles, according to a new article.
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After thoroughly investigating Victoria Crater on Mars for two years, the instruments aboard the Rover Opportunity reveal more evidence of our neighboring red planet’s windy, wet and wild past.
Researchers have synthesized a new molecule which releases hydrogen sulfide — the gas that gives rotten eggs their characteristic smell and which has recently been found to be produced naturally in the body — and discovered that it could in time lead to a range of new, safer and effective anti-inflammatory drugs for human use.
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Wings which redirect air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20% according to new research.
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The amino acid glutamine, found in many foods as well as in dietary supplements, may prove beneficial in offsetting gastric damage caused by H. pylori infection.
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