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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As Floridians lay by the pool or hit the beach, many will refrain this month from downing a cold beer or sipping on a salt-rimmed margarita. After indulging in December, lots of Floridians participate in a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mike Thomson’s friends refuse to stay over at his house anymore. Thomson lives about 50 yards from a busy freeway that bisects California’s capital city, one that has been increasingly used as a speedway for high-speed…

The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease is increasing rapidly. Some hail human monoclonal antibodies that clear beta-amyloid deposits from the brain as the first disease-modifying treatments for the condition. However, they are not without controversy — the Food and…

Cambridge scientists have successfully trialed an artificial pancreas for use by patients living with type 2 diabetes. The device—powered by an algorithm developed at the University of Cambridge—doubled the amount of time patients were in the target range for glucose…

In a recent study posted to Preprints with the Lancet*, researchers investigated the efficacy of a booster dose of the bivalent messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine in preventing severe outcomes during severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus…

Oysters can hear, and baby oysters will swim to areas that emit habitat-friendly sounds to plant themselves, according to marine biologists at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Adelaide. What to Know Oyster larvae are brainless and earless,…

Scientists develop simple questionnaire that can diagnose autism with up to 95% accuracy New open-source questionnaire claims to screen for autism with high accuracy  Parents are asked to answer just 39 questions on their child’s behavior Study claims test is…

Only 1 PER CENT of Brits know the tell-tale symptoms of deadly cancers… so take this quiz to see if YOU fare any better The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce surveyed more than 2,000 Britons Only one per cent of respondents…

Investigators have developed a freely available measure of autism symptoms that can help to screen for autism and monitor changes over time in symptoms. Research on the development and validation of the Autism Symptom Dimension Questionnaire (ASDQ) is published in…

Studies from the early 1990s that analyzed the impact of reduced food intake on life span in rats indicated delayed development and increased adult life span in such animals. Other works by Walford, Masoro, and Weindruch made the concept of…