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Tweens Learn Values From Watching Popular TV Shows
Tweens learn values from TV show that can affect their development, influence their attitudes and behaviors as they grow into their teenage years and beyond. Moreover, these values may rise or fall over time. The findings were made by researchers at UCLA’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers. Values Can Change in Importance Over Time The…
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Scientists Get Lemurs to Hibernate in Captivity
Lemurs rarely hibernate in captivity. Scientist at the Duke Lemur Center has been able to get the fat-tailed dwarf lemur by mimicking seasonal changes in the lemurs’ indoor enclosures. By studying hibernating animals like these lemurs, researchers may unlock the secrets of hibernation and apply them to to humans. Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur The fat-tailed dwarf…
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Healthy Eating Based on Plant-Based Diets Can Decrease Stroke Risk
Eating health meals based on healthy plant-based diets that have lots of leafy greens, whole grains, and beans, can lower the risk of stroke. The finding was based on research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The decrease in risk of stroke can be up to 10 per cent. “Our findings have…
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Protein in Mosquitos Can Help Develop Treatments Vs. Deadly Viruses
A protein called AEG12 found in mosquitos can strongly inhibit the deadly viruses that are responsible for yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika. AEG12 can even inhibit coronaviruses, although more weakly. The findings were made by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. Breaking the Envelop The researchers found that…
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Cancer Cells Can Hibernate to Avoid Chemotherapy
Cancer cells can go into hibernation to avoid effects of chemotherapy. This finding was made by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. These findings have implications for developing new drug combinations that could block senescence and make chemotherapy more effective. In a study published Jan. 26 in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for…
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Men Experiencing Vital Exhaustion May Have Increased Risk of Heart Attack
Exhaustion can lead to the likelihood of having a heart attack in men, according to researchers from the European Society of Cardiology.
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Alexa Skills May Have Privacy and Security Risks
Skills are what Amazon calls programs that run on their popular voice-activated assistant called Alexa. People can buy these skills on skills stores, just like you can buy apps for your smartphone. However, there are privacy risks and security concerns for these skills. Researchers at North Carolina State University collected over 90,000 skills from seven…
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Intermittent Fasting May Have Hard Time Eliminating Belly Fat
Fasting has been shown to help burn fat in mice. However, intermittent fasting, when you fast every other day, may have a hard time burning off that belly fat. Researchers from the University of Sydney found that the belly fat around the stomach actually became resistant to intermittent fasting over time. Belly fat is the…
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SARS-CoV-2 Virus Uses a Second Key Receptor to Infect Human Cells
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 uses another receptor called Neuropilin-1 to make it more infectious to human cells, according to researchers from Technical University of Munich and the University of Helsinki. Digest Points Neuropilin-1 is very abundant in many human tissues including the respiratory tract, blood vessels and neurons. They are receptors on the…
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Environmental Noise Dropped Significantly During Lockdown Period
Environmental noise dropped almost by 50% during early the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when the U.S. was on lockdown. The data were analyzed from Apple Watch users who agreed to sharing their data. The findings were published in the journalEnvironmental Research Letters by researchers at the University of Michigan. Apple Watch Data By…