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Depression can lead to memory dysfunction. This study may pave way for new drugs. Results of a large study involving brain scans show that patients with moderate to severe depression have 7-10 per cent fewer serotonin 4 receptors in the brain than healthy test subjects.
healthsciences.ku.dkSubmitted by Wagamaga t3_114rmh4
The discovery of fossils dating back 250.8 million years near the Guizhou region of China suggests that complex ecosystems were present on Earth just one million years after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which is much earlier than previously thought.
mcgill.caSubmitted by Wagamaga t3_10yp5oz
As many as a fifth of all asteroids in the asteroid belt may have been formed out on the fringes of the solar system. Findings suggest that both Ryugu and the CI chondrites originate from the same region of space, and could even have shared the same parent body.
nhm.ac.ukSubmitted by marketrent t3_y9u9o9
Old Christmas trees could be saved from landfill to make renewable fuels. Research has found that pine needles from discarded Christmas trees or other sources could be turned into renewable fuels and new products, with the potential to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint.
sheffield.ac.ukSubmitted by MistWeaver80 t3_zyp0f8
NFL players, especially former linemen, had fewer disease-free years and earlier high blood pressure and diabetes diagnoses. Two age-related diseases, arthritis and dementia, were also more commonly found in former football players than in other men of the same age.
bjsm.bmj.comSubmitted by Wagamaga t3_zhogc9
Scientists show for the 1st time that monkeys that are more sociable – eg, grooming or being groomed more often, & with more grooming partners – have a healthier gut microbiome.This is further evidence that in primates, social connectedness translates into good physical & mental health, & vice versa
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Environmentalists who wish to charge fossil fuel companies with “greenwashing” should use corporations’ own statements against them, highlighting the gap between their public relations puffery and their paucity of concrete action to forestall global warming.
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