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A newly released set of Hubble Space Telescope images highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process known as “ram pressure stripping”, which can result in peculiar-looking galaxies. An extremely hot X-ray emitting gas known as the intra-cluster medium lurks between galaxies within clusters. As galaxies move through [...]
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Researchers studying a large sample of adolescent American boys have found an association between metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of obesity, and elevated liver enzymes that mark potentially serious liver disease. Among non-Hispanic adolescent boys, this association occurred independent of obesity, suggesting the presence of further, unknown risk factors — and possibly other treatments [...]
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Scientist have revealed the first stage of the European eels mysterious migration to the Sargasso Sea by attaching pop up satellite tags to eels.
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As part of an effort to develop effective medical therapies that block the progression of liver cyst growth in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, researchers have found that the liver cyst walls develop and maintain a vasculature as they grow out from the body of the liver and that factors released by epithelial [...]
If future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country’s most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade more US land area, according to a new study. The study found that tamarisk — prevalent today in some parts of the region, but generally limited to warm and dry environments [...]
HIV/AIDS is up to five times more prevalent in American prisons than in the general population. Adherence to treatment programs can be strictly monitored in prison. However, once prisoners are released, medical monitoring becomes problematic. A new study suggests the majority (76 percent) of inmates take their antiretroviral treatment intermittently once they leave prison, representing [...]
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In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists have found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.
Exposure to radon gas in homes is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking, according to a study carried out by researchers in Spain And Romania. The team has studied data on exposure to this element in a uranium mining area in Transylvania and in an area of granite in Torrelodones, Madrid.
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Scientists in China have discovered that a natural plant hormone, applied to crops, can help plants eliminate residues of certain pesticides.
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