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Risk factors developed after loss of spouse could increase likelihood of ‘dying of a...
Widowed individuals are more likely to exhibit risk factors linked to cardiovascular illness and death in the three-month period following a spouse's death, according...
Discovering crucial role of protein that could stop HPV virus infection
New drugs in the early stages of development by pharmaceutical companies could have an extra benefit – the ability to cancel out HPV virus,...
Belief in Fake Causes of Cancer is Rife
Mistaken belief in mythical causes of cancer is rife, according to new research from UCL and the University of Leeds.
The findings, published today in...
Lipid Accumulation in Brain May Be an Early Sign of Parkinson’s
A collaborative team of researchers at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and Oxford University has found that elevated levels of certain types...
Contrary to Popular Belief, Smiling Makes You Look Older
In the adverts for anti-ageing skin products, everyone is smiling, positively blooming with youthfulness.
A canny move by the marketeers you might think –...
Link Between Exercise and Appetite Loss Explained
Ever wonder why intense exercise temporarily curbs your appetite?
In research described in today’s issue of PLOS Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers reveal...
How Pleasure Affects Our Brains
Every day we make a range of choices in the pursuit of pleasure: we do things that make us feel good or work in...
Faulty Patch for Oracle WebLogic Flaw Opens Updated Servers to Hackers Again
Earlier this month, Oracle patched a highly critical Java deserialization remote code execution vulnerability in its WebLogic Server component of Fusion Middleware that could allow attackers...
Procedure to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone
Ever since the world has stepped into the 21st century, the evolution of technology has picked up rapidly. Newer versions of existing technologies are entering...
Paralyzed 34-year-old man completes London Marathon using Israeli tech
Britain’s Simon Kindleysides, a 34-year old man paralyzed from the waist down, set out at 10 a.m. on Sunday and in 36 hours walked...
Brain Structure Linked to Symptoms of Restless Leg Syndrome
People with restless legs syndrome may have changes in a portion of the brain that processes sensory information, according to a study published in...
Can Microbes Manipulate Our Minds?
Researchers at the University of Oxford have proposed an evolutionary framework to understand why microbes living in the gut affect the brain and behaviour,...
Researchers Teach Neural Network to Identify a Writer’s Gender
A team of researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute and the Voronezh State University has developed...
Navigating with the sixth sense: Desert ants sense Earth’s magnetic field
Desert ants (Cataglyphis) spend the first weeks of their life exclusively in their dark underground nest.
For around four weeks, they nurse the queen and...
Ex-NSA staffer creates app to notify users of evil maid attack on MacBook
It is a fact that a MacBook cannot be easily hacked and to pull off this incredible feat, the attacker either needs a sophisticated malware or requires physical...
