The shutdown of hundreds of coal-fired power plants in the United States over the past decade has saved an estimated 26,610 lives, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability.
Jan 8, 2020
Ever since humans domesticated the dog, the faithful animal has provided its owner with companionship and emotional well-being.
Jan 8, 2020
Your fingerprints stay the same all your life. But what about the “fingerprint” of microbial strains that are shared in the guts of childhood twins?
Jan 8, 2020
Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammals It’s no secret there’s a close relationship between humans and our microbiomes — the communities of microbes that live in and on us.
Jan 7, 2020
Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp speed.
Jan 7, 2020
Targeted immunization against bacterial flagellin, a protein that forms the appendage that enables bacterial mobility, can beneficially alter the intestinal…
Jan 7, 2020
Young people’s view of their family’s social status was more strongly associated with their mental health and readiness for future education and work than how…
Jan 7, 2020
Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction of wildlife for subsistence and commercialisation has become a major biodiversity threat in recent decades.
Jan 6, 2020
A first-of-its-kind study on molecular interactions by biomedical engineers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering will make it…
Jan 6, 2020
Research by a Lam Family College of Business professor indicates that CEOs are more likely to enact social responsibility efforts when they disagree with the…
Jan 3, 2020
Gender pay equity in the field of medicine remains elusive. Gender-based pay differences have been shown to persist, even when controlling for experience, clinical productivity, academic rank and other factors.
Jan 2, 2020
Black teenagers experience daily racial discrimination, most frequently online, which can lead to negative mental health effects, according to a Rutgers researcher.
Jan 2, 2020
Writing in Nature Medicine, an international team headed by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new way to…
Dec 31, 2019
A rendering of amyloid protein plaques accumulating between neurons in the brain.
Dec 31, 2019
