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Medical Xpress / Does marriage prevent cancer? And who benefits the most?
Marriage, it turns out, may come with a side-effect no one puts in the vows: people who have been married seem less likely to develop cancer than those who have never married at all.
Phys.org / Scientists unveil breakthrough tool that could help stop the world's third‑biggest driver of deforestation
Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, World Forest ID, University of Sheffield and international collaborators have developed a new technique that can identify where soybeans—the third largest driver of tropical deforestation—are ...
Medical Xpress / Shifts in cancer mortality: Place of living increasingly determines where historic drop in cancer mortality reaches
In 1991, the U.S. experienced a significant shift in cancer death rates, as, for the first time, deaths began a steady decline that continues to the present day. Researchers at Mississippi State's Social Science Research ...
Phys.org / Guaranteed income improved artists' finances, innovation
A guaranteed income program for artists led to improvement in financial stability and reduced debt, but also improved their motivation and artistic output, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University ...
Phys.org / Unique double baptistery and mysterious marble block uncovered at Byzantine cathedral in Israel
In a new article published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, researchers Dr. Michael Eisenberg and Dr. Arleta Kowalewska describe a recently excavated Byzantine-period cathedral at Hippos. Archaeologists revealed a ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds that people using mobile app breathalyzers changed their drinking behavior
Researchers analyzed data from tens of thousands of people who used low-cost mobile breathalyzers to test their blood-alcohol concentration when drinking. The analysis revealed that the repeated use of these devices corresponded ...
Phys.org / Universal surface-growth law confirmed in two dimensions after 40 years
Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Since then, it has been regarded as a fundamental model in physics, with implications ...
Medical Xpress / How to spot and help someone in a mental health crisis
Experts wish more people spotted the signs earlier: feeling overwhelmed, not feeling "like yourself," shifts in sleep, behavior and mood.
Medical Xpress / Environmental enrichment lowered stress hormones tied to fentanyl relapse in rats
Combating the opioid crisis relies on identifying new prevention strategies for problematic fentanyl use. In a collaboration between Washington State University and Washington University in St. Louis, researchers led by Jose ...
Medical Xpress / The brain's default mode network splits into 'sender' and 'receiver' zones, study finds
The default mode network (DMN) is a distributed set of interconnected brain regions that has long been associated with internally oriented cognition, such as remembering the past, thinking about the future, or thinking about ...
Medical Xpress / Radon gas increases risk of ovarian cancer, study says
An invisible radioactive gas could be increasing women's risk for ovarian cancer, a new study says.
Tech Xplore / Safer sodium battery eliminates thermal runaway with a heat-triggered polymer barrier
Some batteries have been known to catch fire or explode at high temperatures or when under stress. This safety concern has pushed researchers to experiment with different ways to design safer batteries that can ideally still ...
