Daily contact with nature is good for our health, survey reveals
Daily contact with the joys of nature is good for our health and happiness, new survey reveals People who usually
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Climate change expected to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal infection
Valley fever is endemic to hot and dry regions like the southwestern United States and California’s San Joaquin Valley, but
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Tiny airborne particles from wildfires have climate change implications
Wildfires are widespread across the globe. They occur in places wherever plants are abundant — such as the raging fires
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Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk
Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman
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Nature or nurture: How do we end child obesity?
A smartphone app that challenges children to engage in healthy behaviour, and genetic studies that investigate risk factors for obesity,
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‘Gut-on-a-chip’ system shows intestinal barrier disruption is the onset initiator of gut inflammation: ‘Once the gut barrier has been damaged, probiotics can be harmful just like any other bacteria’
The first study investigating the mechanism of how a disease develops using human organ-on-a-chip technology has been successfully completed by
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How nature, nurture shape the sleeping brain
Some patterns of electrical activity generated by the brain during sleep are inherited, according to a study of teenage twins
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Researchers explore how changes in diet alter microbiome in artificial intestine
Using an artificial intestine they created, researchers have shown that the microbiome can quickly adapt from the bacterial equivalent of
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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light
You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from
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