Professor Jing Xu and her students study extremely tiny motor proteins, but their work could make a huge contribution to the growing body of knowledge about Alzheimer's and other diseases that progressively destroy brain ...
Nov 22, 2019
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Whether you're doing vape tricks for YouTube views or kicking yourself for not realizing that "USB" was actually your teenager's Juul, you know vaping is all the rage right now. You probably also know that President Trump ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Most people want to eat healthier, but efforts to encourage healthy eating by providing nutrition information have not drastically changed habits. A new study suggests that labels emphasizing taste and positive experience ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Two new studies from MIT suggest that mindfulness—the practice of focusing one's awareness on the present moment—can enhance academic performance and mental health in middle schoolers. The researchers found that more ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Parents with a knack for citizen science are helping their children walk or bike to school by using an app that lets them document the best routes.
Mar 13, 2019
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Academic learning is about gaining new knowledge and skill, but only recently has it been possible to see new knowledge appear in a human brain.
Mar 7, 2019
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According to data from the 2005 and 2016 American College of Rheumatology Workforce Studies, a significant increase in the demand for rheumatologists is expected in the coming years. However, the number of trained rheumatologists ...
Feb 26, 2019
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Seeing pictures of food with calorie information not only makes food less appetizing but it also appears to change the way your brain responds to the food, according to a Dartmouth-led study published in PLOS ONE. When food ...
Dec 20, 2018
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As nonprescription use of Ritalin increases among young adults, researchers at the University at Buffalo Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions warn that such use may cause irreversible structural changes in certain ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Nurses are often considered the unsung heroes and backbone of our health-care system but it's their actual backs that bear the brunt of physically demanding movements like lifting and transferring patients. In fact, nurses ...
May 10, 2018
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