Excessive Heat Exacerbates Child Malnutrition
Extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries, threatening to reverse decades of progress, according to Cornell…
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New Research could Lead to Earlier Tsunami Warnings
A tsunami is one of nature’s most powerful and destructive forces. It is a series of waves caused by the ocean’s large and sudden displacement.…
Researchers Find a Novel Method to Combat Malaria that is Drug-Resistant
As the effectiveness of conventional antimalarial medications wane, a novel strategy to tackle malaria that causes the illness to turn against itself may provide a…
Patients with Newly Diagnosed Mantle Cell Lymphoma Have Improved Progression-Free Survival When Taking Ibrutinib and Chemo-Immunotherapy
For previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) in patients 65 and older, combination chemotherapy with the Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib demonstrated improved progression-free…
Current Models Underestimate Tsunami Risks
USC researchers discovered a link between tsunami severity and the width of the outer wedge (the area between the continental shelf and deep trenches where…
51 Pegasi – a Sun-like Star
51 Pegasi is a Sun-like star in the constellation Pegasus, 50.45 light-years (15.47 parsecs) from Earth. It is a fifth-magnitude star 48 light-years from Earth…
Climate Change may make it difficult for Seabirds to Catch Fish
According to a new study, seabirds are finding it more difficult to catch fish because their underwater visibility is being hampered by increasingly cloudy water,…
Zinc Bromide – an Inorganic Compound
Zinc bromide (ZnBr2) is a chemical compound with the formula ZnBr2. It is a colorless salt with many properties in common with zinc chloride (ZnCl2),…
An Innovative Data-Driven Model Might Offer a Potent Tool for Policy Planning to Address the Nation’s Opioid Crisis
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have created a data-driven simulation model to aid decision-makers in understanding and addressing the nation’s raging opioid issue. According to…
Supercomputers help Solve the Hawaiian-Emperor Undersea Mystery
To quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian — Emperor Bend, kinematic plate reconstructions and high-resolution global dynamic models were…
Chronic Lactate Exposure Causes Cellular Disruptions Linked to T2 Diabetes and Cancer
According to a recent study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, while acute amounts of lactate, such as those produced during…
Highlights of Recent Research The Benefits of Lifelong Exercise for Maintaining Muscle Health
According to research that was published in The Journal of Physiology, lifelong physical activity may be able to prevent age-related loss of muscle mass and…
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