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Many adults who screen positive for depression don’t receive treatment

A new study suggests gaps exist in the treatment of depression with many individuals who screen positive for the mental health disorder not receiving treatment, according to an article published...

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Identifying and treating thyroid disorders in kids

Primary care physicians are critical in identifying children and adolescents who have thyroid disorders and early identification and treatment helps to optimize growth and development.

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How did prehistoric human occupy the Tibetan plateau?

When did human first settle on the Tibetan Plateau? Where did they come from and how did they adapt to the high elevation hypoxia environment? A paper published in the latest issue of Science China:...

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Scientists reveal characteristics of mainland shoreline change in China since...

Worldwide shoreline changes are characterized by increasing erosion or drastic expansion toward sea due to various processes at global and local scales. For a long time, both scientists and publics...

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Factors associated with improvement in survival following heart attack

Among nearly 400,000 patients hospitalized with a certain type of heart attack in England and Wales between 2003 and 2013, improvement in survival was significantly associated with use of an invasive...

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European Neolithic population collapse

Researchers have uncovered statistical early warning signs that presaged the dramatic collapse of European Neolithic populations.

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Plant domestication in Europe

Researchers report the discovery of starches from domesticated cereal grains that dated to around 6600 BC, during the Mesolithic period, on human teeth from the central Balkans, suggesting that...

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Bacterial viruses in the human gut

An analysis of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, in the human gut provides evidence that some common bacteriophages may help support human health.

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Modeling urban mobility patterns

Researchers report a modeling framework that uses passive datasets from information and communication networks to generate high-resolution urban mobility patterns.

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Safe, opioid-like pain relief in monkeys

Simultaneously targeting two brain receptors may produce opioid-like pain relief without the risk of addiction, drug abuse, and side effects, according to a study.

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Modern diets and gut microbiome composition

A study suggests that modern Western diets poor in plant-based fibers may be associated with imbalance and reduced diversity of human gut microbiomes.

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Glaciation and kiwi diversification

Researchers report a burst of kiwi diversification during recent glacial cycles.

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Biofuel crops and commercial beekeeping

Shifts to biofuel crops in the Northern Great Plains could diminish the region's suitability for commercial beekeeping, a study suggests.

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Improving drought predictions using plant transpiration

A study suggests that reductions in plant water loss under rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) may result in lower future drought stress than predicted by current metrics.

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Salmon use by Ice Age hunter-gatherers

Some of the earliest Americans, hunter-gatherers who crossed into Beringia during the last Ice Age, relied more heavily on salmon and freshwater fish than previously thought, a study suggests.

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Also of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A targeted plasma metabolomics study of 45 people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and 39 healthy individuals, 20 to 69 years of age, revealed in people with CFS a pattern of abnormalities in 20...

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Dogs understand both vocabulary and intonation of their owner’s speech

Dogs have the ability to distinguish vocabulary and intonation of human speech through similar brain regions that humans use, a new study reports.

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Widely used brain cancer cell line faces identity crisis

A cell line considered to be the most commonly used in brain cancer research is different from the original patient tumor from which it was derived, say Bengt Westermark and colleagues, who first...

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A potential application in quantum networks

The latest survey shows that Quantum Operation Sharing can be achieved only by Bell states without applying multiparty entangled states. A paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics &...

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Developing a global use strategy for first dengue vaccine deployment

An analysis performed by scientists studying the world’s first marketed dengue virus vaccine (Dengvaxia) has identified the need for a better understanding of how it should be deployed on a global...

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Dawn spacecraft at Ceres

This package of papers highlights new and unexpected insights into Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter).

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This new clothing is super 'cool'

Researchers have developed a cloth that reflects sunlight, but allows heat radiating from a person’s body to escape.

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Microbial synthesis of minerals known to form only under deep Earth

The transformation from smectite to illite, synthesis of autogenic plagioclase, and synthesis of some geolipids could be induced by microbial activities but were previously believed to only occur...

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