Adding salt to your food at the table is linked to higher risk of premature death
People who add extra salt to their food at the table are at higher risk of dying prematurely from any cause, according to a study of more than 500,000 people.
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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain by separating it from the self
Mindfulness meditation is effective in reducing pain relief; a new study reveals the underlying neural circuitry.
Universal influenza B vaccine induces broad, sustained protection, biomedical sciences researchers find
A new universal flu vaccine protects against influenza B viruses, offering broad defense against different strains and improved immune protection, according to a new study.
Swans sacrifice rest to squabble
Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research shows.
How society thinks about risk
From pandemics to nuclear energy — the world is full of risks. Psychologists have developed a new method of determining how risk is perceived within a society.
Whole exome sequencing predicts whether patients respond to cancer immunotherapy
Immunotherapies, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, have transformed the treatment of advanced stage cancers. Unlike chemotherapies that kill cancer cells, these drugs help the body’s immune system to find and destroy cancer cells themselves. Unfort…
A ‘wise counsel’ for synthetic biology
Researchers develop user-friendly software system to optimize biological systems.
Electric vehicles pass the remote road test
A new study, which demonstrates that even the most rural areas of Australia are feasible for electric vehicles, provides new hope for how the technology could be spread around the most secluded locations in other parts of the world. The study found the…
Potential energy surfaces of water mapped
Liquids are more difficult to describe than gases or crystalline solids. Researchers have now mapped the potential energy surfaces of water molecules in liquid water under ambient conditions. The work contributes to a better understanding of the chemis…
500-million-year-old fossilized brains of stanleycaris prompt a rethink of the evolution of insects and spiders
Scientists revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old marine predator from the Burgess Shale called Stanleycaris. Stanleycaris belonged to an ancient, extinct offshoot of the …
Immune system uses two-step verification to defend against HIV
A discovery could offer new methods for treating HIV, while uncovering the innate immune system’s role in other diseases.
Major step forward in fabricating an artificial heart, fit for a human
Bioengineers have developed the first biohybrid model of human ventricles with helically aligned beating cardiac cells, and have shown that muscle alignment does, in fact, dramatically increases how much blood the ventricle can pump with each contracti…