Sweet spots of tropical biomass production emerge where favorable ocean conditions concentrate resources, and also their consumers. Here, schools of sweetlips, snappers, fusiliers, and unicornfishes…
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High BMI independently associated with death and longer ICU stay for COVID patients. Obese patients (BMI >35 kg/m2) were twice as likely to experience a…
Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer…
The UK Traffic Light nutrition label on pre-packaged processed foods. Credit: Sonia Pombo-Rodrigues, CC BY 4.0 New analysis of 118 studies conducted over 30 years…
Tagging reveals that closely bonded female bats leave the roost separately but reunite when hunting. During nightly foraging trips, female vampire bats preferentially meet up…
Inhibitory brain stimulation allows better memorization by reducing the power of beta-waves in the brain. Memories of past events and experiences are what define us…
Study suggests some medications might inhibit virus replication in human cells. Despite the development of SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official…
Cytokine increases production of “beige fat” to burn more cellular energy. An immune signal promotes the production of energy-burning “beige fat,” according to a new…
Hippocampal dentate gyrus in HSHA mice, showing significant astrocyte activation (GFAP: white) and oxidative stress (8OHdG: green) surrounding the cerebral capillaries (laminin-a4: magenta). Nuclei staining…
Neolithic agriculturalists. Credit: Illustration by L.P. Repiso A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of…
The global distribution of the combined toxic-climate risk. The global distribution of the combined risk of toxic pollution (low or high ecosystem health) and climate…
Beneficial Gut Bacteria. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, NIH Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria…
Selective extinction of apex predators suggests a shift to more generalist diets. A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all…
Better international sequencing efforts are needed to track and respond to new SARS-CoV-2 variants. The lack of sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 variants by the U.S. and…
Scanning was completed both during Time 1 and Time 2 (approximately 1.5 years later) in each of the 5 age groups (6-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 14-year-olds, 16-year-olds,…
Landscape views of scatters of qubbas around the Jebel Maman. Credit: Stefano Costanzo (CC-BY 4.0) Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan…
Schematic illustration of sample size calculation process. Credit: Shoya Iwanami A new modeling study suggests that significant variation in virus dynamics from person to person…
First successful use aboard International Space Station of new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method…
Image presents global COVID-19 spread across countries over time. Countries marked in yellow–upper bound of a 95% confidence interval of the estimated origin date includes…
Anti-aging Protein in Red Blood Cells Helps Prevent Mental Decline, Poor Memory and Hearing Deficits
Mice lacking ADORA2B in their blood exhibit accelerated aging, including poor memory and hearing deficits. Research conducted by Qiang et al has discovered a link…