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New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that by eating just one cup of nitrate-rich vegetables each day people can significantly reduce their risk of heart disease.

New research, led by Durham University and published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, investigates the impacts of potential climate change scenarios on the network of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) across the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

German University Hospital Uniklinik RWTH Aachen and diagnostics company SphingoTec GmbH today announced that the endothelial function biomarker bio-ADM aids in the early risk stratification and management of patients suffering from severe COVID-19, in need for escalated intensive care treatment.

The study provides insights into how the cancers resist treatments, and which patients may benefit from treatment.

researchers from the Center for BrainHealth® at The University of Texas at Dallas are investigating a potential new early indicator of the decline toward Alzheimer's disease: measuring the energy metabolism of the living human brain using cutting-edge imaging techniques.

Steven Poelzing, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, led a team of cardiovascular scientists studying electrical conduction in the heart, showing increased sodium and calcium levels in the bloodstream helps keep dangerous heart rhythms at bay.

Researchers at C-Crete Technologies and Rice University have found the right ingredients for cement that does double duty as a structural material and a photocatalytic water purifier with a built-in means of replenishment: simply sand down the material's surface to refresh the photocatalytic quality.

Pioneering neural recordings in patients with Parkinson's disease by UC San Francisco scientists lays the groundwork for personalized brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.

University of South Australia researchers have identified an enzyme that may help to curb chronic kidney disease, which affects approximately 700 million people worldwide.

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) scientists in Korea have developed algorithms that more efficiently measure how difficult it would be for an attacker to guess secret keys for cryptographic systems. The approach they used was described in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and could reduce the computational complexity needed to validate encryption security.

Modeling coupled with fieldwork explains the mechanism by which strike-slip faults can generate large tsunamis.

Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of 'last resort' kills bacteria.

Dr. Sejal Morjaria, like other physicians treating COVID-19, found it hard to predict how her infected cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) would react to the virus. She and her husband, CSHL Associate Professor Saket Navlakha, a computer scientist, worked together to develop a machine-learning solution that uses 50 variables available when a patient is first diagnosed to predict how severely their COVID-19 symptoms are likely to progress.

Tweaking the look of a social media profile may subtly alter a person's reaction to the health messages that appear on that site, according to researchers. They add that these reactions could influence whether the users heed the advice of those messages.

For more than a year, researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso's Stanley E. Fulton Gait Research & Movement Analysis Lab in the College of Health Sciences have been using real-time 3D animation to investigate motor impairments in children who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The greatest takeaway from this study is that when teaching or coaching new movements to an individual with autism, the teacher or coach needs to understand the individual with autism's specific motor learning characteristics.

As more people go online for shopping, understanding how they rely on e-commerce recommendation systems to make purchases is increasingly important. Penn State researchers now suggest that it's not just what is recommended, but how and why it's recommended, that helps to shape consumers' opinions.

A new focus article in the May issue of Geology summarizes research on plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments.

The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 individuals surviving in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. To ensure survival of the threatened species, accurate censusing is necessary to determine the genetic diversity of remaining populations for conservation and management plans. A new study characterized 29 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers -- repetitive DNA sequences -- that serve as a reliable censusing method for wild Sumatran rhinos.

The importance of pollinators to ensure successful harvests and thus global food security is widely acknowledged. However, the specific pollinators for even major crops - such as cocoa - haven't yet been identified. Now an international research team led by the University of Göttingen has found that in fact ants and flies - but not ceratopogonid midges - appear to have a crucial role to play. The research was published in Biological Conservation.

A study of a rare and common desert plant indicates solar development in the desert may impact rare species more. It also demonstrates the importance of taking the time to understand the ever-changing desert ecosystem before irrevocably changing it.