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Practicing yoga for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in breast cancer survivors, according to…
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Using A Laser to ‘See’ the Smallest World:Scientists Employ a Powerful UCSB Laser to Breathe New Life into an Old Technology for Studying Atomic-Level Structures
EPR spectrometer at UCSB (Credit: Susumu Takahashi) A multi-university team has employed a high-powered laser based…
URMC Geneticists Verify Cholesterol-Cancer Link
University of Rochester Medical Center scientists discovered new genetic evidence linking cholesterol and cancer, raising the possibility that cholesterol…
Body fat location may determine type 2 diabetes risk for obese patients
Dr. Ian Neeland, a cardiology fellow and first author of the paper (left); and Dr. James de…
Human embryonic stem cells could help to treat deafness
A cure for deafness is a step closer after University of Sheffield scientists used human embryonic stem cells to…
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. —Voltaire In the first…
New UCLA Engineering research center to revolutionize nanoscale electromagnetic devices
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and other universities is poised to help turn science fiction into reality…
Employees at ‘green’ companies are significantly more productive, study finds
Bucking the idea that environmentalism hurts economic performance, a new UCLA-led study has found that companies that voluntarily adopt…
Most coral reefs are at risk unless climate change is drastically limited
Coral reefs face severe challenges even if global warming is restricted to the 2 degrees Celsius commonly perceived as…