Global meat production has tripled in the past three decades and could double its present level by 2050, according to a major report on the livestock industry. The impact of this “livestock revolution” is likely to have significant consequences for human health, the environment and the global economy, the authors conclude.
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A novel report explores the possible relationship between fluctuations in the stock market and the incidence of local heart attacks.
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Metallic glasses are potentially useful materials at the frontier of materials science research. They combine the advantages and avoid many of the problems of normal metals and glasses, two classes of materials with a wide range of applications. Scientists used high pressure to probe the connection between the density and electronic structure of a cerium-aluminum [...]
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Using sophisticated techniques that scan the genomes of patients, researchers have found that a gene appears to either help protect against development of Alzheimer’s disease, or promote the disorder depending on the level of gene in the brain.
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A family history of Alzheimer’s is one of the biggest risk factors for developing the memory-robbing disease, which affects more than 5 million Americans and is the most common form of senile dementia. Researchers have found the likely basis for this heightened familial risk — especially from the maternal side.
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Bathing trauma patients daily using cloths containing the antiseptic chlorhexidine may be associated with a decreased rate of colonization and infection by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other difficult-to-treat bacteria, according to a new report.
Vervet monkeys seem to pay more attention to top females
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Vervet monkeys seem to pay more attention to top females
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New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its [...]
Being skinny confers no advantage when it comes to the risk of dying suddenly from cardiac causes, new research suggests. Scientists found that non-obese heart failure patients — including overweight, normal and underweight patients — had a 76 percent increase in risk of sudden cardiac death compared to obese heart failure patients. Normal and underweight [...]
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