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Pathogens can hitch a ride on plastic to reach the sea: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The study, published April 26 in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to connect microplastics in the ocean with land-based pathogens. It found that microplastics can make it easier for disease-causing pathogens to concentrate in plastic-contaminated areas of the ocean.
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Study: Hybrid songbirds more likely to found in human-altered environments
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Study suggested why these chickadee hybrids are more common in places where humans have changed the landscape and also examine this correlation separate from climate change.
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Study finds how words and face recognition can be adequately supported wit
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The findings, published by University of Pittsburgh researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first-ever attempt to characterize neuroplasticity in humans and understand whether a single brain hemisphere can perform functions typically split betw
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New research sheds light on how genes turn on and off
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Using CRISPR techniques, the researchers removed parts of the yeast transcription machinery to systematically examine their role in regulating genes. Yeast and humans have mostly the same molecular machinery to regulate their genes, so yeast provides an excellent model for understanding gene
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Smoking, vaping have similar negative health impacts; dual product use may
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Two related studies, one in humans and the other in rats, found that the cardiovascular effects of cigarettes and e-cigarettes are strikingly similar, and these harmful effects on blood vessel function are likely caused by airway irritation due to inhalation of a foreign substance, rather th
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Research shows how stress affects brain
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
At one time or another, we've all felt paralyzed by a threat or danger. Researchers from the University of Iowa have determined the origin of that response to a threat. According to a recent study, a neural circuit connecting two distinct brain regions controls how animals, including humans,
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Avoiding extinction: Asian animals found to be thriving near humans
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Queensland [Australia], October 24 (ANI): According to a University of Queensland-led study, some of Asia's largest creatures, like tigers and elephants, are living with people despite trends toward extinction that date back 12,000 years.
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Researchers in Japan develop a soft robot to help people afraid of needles
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Tsukuba [Japan], October 21 (ANI): Robots may soon replace humans as our go-to companions, just as most of us never leave home without our smartphones.
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Chimpanzees sync their footsteps like humans: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 21 (ANI): According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of St Andrews and the Central European University in Vienna, chimps share a human tendency to unconsciously synchronise their footsteps when walking beside one another.
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Methane-eating 'borgs' have been assimilating earth's microbes: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on the nonfictional planet Earth, 'Borgs' are DNA packages that could help humans fight climate change.
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Scientists explain how virus that affects cat kidneys could also affect hu
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) [US], October 19 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research reverse-engineered an elusive virus linked to chronic kidney disease in cats and described its mode of infection, outlining its potential to infect humans, in a study t
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7th Edition of Ahmedabad International Literature Festival Concludes on a
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], October 11 (ANI/PNN): Ahmedabad International Literature festival with the theme 'Humans, Nature and the Future' started on 8th October 2022 at Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad and concluded on the evening of 9th October 2022 with the message, humans a
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