Most parents, educators and policymakers agree that children should eat healthy foods. However, our peer-reviewed paper suggests the strategy adults often use to achieve that can sometimes backfire. Fortunately, there’s…
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The construction of visual attention highlighted at the neuronal level
Attention being caught. Credit: Mikhail Nilov. A giant billboard flashes on the side of a country road. Why does it catch our attention more easily than other details in the…
More must be done for depressed stroke survivors as incidence climbs, say researchers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers say that more must be done for depressed stroke survivors, as new findings show 60% of stroke survivors would experience depression within 18 years, a…
Epigenetics is of critical importance in autoimmune-related skin diseases, says study
Credit: Lingyu Gao, Qianjin Lu The central dogma proposed that genetic information predominantly transfers from DNA to RNA during gene expression to make a functional product protein. This absolute theory…
Pompeii excavation reveals ancient construction techniques
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman construction site during excavations of Regio IX at Pompeii. Pompeii was a Roman city, located in the modern commune of Pompeii near Naples, Italy. Pompeii,…
Factors that contribute to differences in cervical cancer screening in rural and urban community health centers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the United States, community health centers (CHCs) mainly serve historically marginalized populations. New research reveals that both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, females receiving…
Traces of Roman fort found in Aachen
Archaeologists from ArcheoConsult have found traces of a Roman fort during excavations in Aachen, Germany. Aachen, known as Aquae Granni during the Roman period, was first settled by the Romans…
A primer on recent measles outbreaks, transmission, symptoms and complications, including ‘immune amnesia’
Microscopic view of a measles virus particle (red). Credit: CDC and NIAID, CC BY Canada is seeing a resurgence of measles, with cases in the first quarter of 2024 already…
Lab tests show THC potency inflated on retail marijuana in Colorado
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis flower sold in Colorado claims to contain much more tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than it actually does, according to my findings published in the peer-reviewed journal…
Is your blood aging your brain? It might increase your dementia risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By 2050, the global population of adults 60 and older will approximately double, leading to upward of 153 million dementia cases. That’s why University College Cork…
