The drug, an antiretroviral pill known as Truvada, interferes with the replication of the most common HIV virus and can reduce the risk of new infection by 62 % or more if taken consistently, according to the results of three
studies published today on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine.
A good example is
a study published today on the correlation between alcohol consumption and diabetes.
Not exact matches
In a second
study,
published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism
on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.
According to an article
published in Psychology
Today, «Research suggests that, when faced with long tasks (such as
studying before a final exam or doing your taxes), it is best to impose brief breaks
on yourself.
Alberta, which relies
on coal to generate about half its power, would see electricity rates rise more slowly in coming decades if use of renewable energy increased, according to a
study published today.
(Health Impact News) Results of an extensive
study on coconut oil in the diet of people iving in Sri Lanka were
published today in the Sunday Sun Times of Sri Lanka.
WestRock
today published Packaging Matters ™, the company's fourth annual
study of the impact of packaging
on product satisfaction and consumer purchasing behavior.
Commenting
on the research
published today by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The independent Institute for Fiscal
Studies has confirmed what the NUT has been saying since the Government announced its cuts programme.
The Institute for Fiscal
Studies has also
published a short report
on the bill
today.
(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend
on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening
study of the City's teacher rating data,
published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.
According to the
ONS study published today, social support from the British state is in line with the likes of Iceland, Italy and just behind France, Finland and Belgium
The
study,
published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author
on the
study.
The
study, led by Dr Len Stephens and Dr Phill Hawkins and
published today in the journal Molecular Cell, reveals why loss of the PTEN gene has such an impact
on many people with prostate cancer, as well as in some breast cancers.
The
study,
published today in the journal Physiological Reports, is the first to assess the hormonal impact nighttime light exposure can have
on young children.
But the
study,
published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based
on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.
Cancer treatment guidelines produced by the US National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) are often based
on low quality evidence or no evidence at all, finds a
study published by The BMJ
today.
The fields of barley, rice and wheat that feed much of India are running out of water, according to a new
study based
on satellite data and
published online in Nature
today.
Now, in a new
study published today, Sept. 8, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison has added a new wrinkle to the cell differentiation equation, showing that the stiffness of the surfaces
on which stem cells are grown can exert a profound influence
on cell fate.
Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run
on gasoline, says a new six - nation
study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.
In a
study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing
on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory setting.
According to a new
study published online
today in Science, the tiny differences found in previous
studies may have resulted from a slight tendency
on the part of political conservatives to «self - enhance,» or view themselves in an unrealistically positive light.
The
study, which is
published today in Scientific Reports, used a mathematical model that takes into account whether people are naturally more of a morning or evening person, the impact of natural and artificial light
on the body clock and the typical time of an alarm clock, to predict the effects of delaying school start times.
Today Nicotine & Tobacco Research
publishes the third in a series of
studies on the cost of smoking in California, one of the first US states to implement a comprehensive tobacco control program.
Whooping cough has been found in a fifth of UK school age children visiting their doctor with a persistent cough, even though most have been fully vaccinated, finds a
study published on bmj.com
today.
LONDON, U.K. — Although «gray goo» made of self - replicating nanostuff is unlikely to doom the planet, some kinds of nanomaterials may indeed be hazardous and require a closer look, according to a 12 - month
study on nanotechnology
published today by the U.K. Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The
study,
published online
today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument
on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.
The second
study, also
published today in PNAS, looked at what motivates male chimps to risk life and limb
on patrol missions.
The
study,
published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based
on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.
Through his industrious efforts, Darwin built a reputation as a capable scientist,
publishing works
on geology as well as
studies of coral reefs and barnacles still considered definitive
today.
The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused
on the systems biology of disease,
today announced in a
study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.
The
study,
published in the open access journal PeerJ
today, reports
on the incidence of abnormal cervical vertebrae in woolly rhinos, which strongly suggests a vulnerable condition in the species.
In a
study published today in Cell Metabolism, UT Southwestern researchers identify a hormone that acts
on the brain to increase the desire to drink water in response to specific nutrient stresses that can cause dehydration.
In the new
study published online
today in Biology Letters, researchers created a computer simulation of an adult T. rex's head (shown), complete with working muscles, based
on rough estimates.
In a
study published today, scientists report «no evidence of a negative influence of radiation
on mammal abundance» in the Chernobyl exclusion zone straddling the Belarus - Ukraine border.
In a new
study,
published online
today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a laser vibrometer — a tiny machine that hits the bee hair with a laser — to measure how the hair
on a bee's body responds to a flower's tiny electric field.
But a
study published online
today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect
on the poor.
The
study was
published online
on Nature Communications
today.
Fire seasons
on an average are almost 20 percent longer
today than they were 35 years ago, a
study published in Nature Communications says.
Now, new research has shed light
on how plants control how much pollen each bee extracts from them — taste, according to a
study published today in the journal Biology Letters.
As the rate of children with autism in the U.S. continues to grow, a new
study published today in top - ranked journal Pediatrics shows that medical professionals can't rely solely
on their clinical judgment to detect autism risk.
The work,
published in Nature Communications
today with a concurrent
study on H. naledi's hands, provides insight into the skeletal form and function that may have characterized early members of our genus.
Both
studies, one
published online
today by Nature, the other by Science, used Thailand as the presumptive ground zero, in part because current pandemic worries focus
on H5N1, the bird flu strain haunting Southeast Asia (ScienceNOW, 16 June).
According to a
study published today in Science Advances, women who sell items
on eBay «receive consistently less money than men for selling the very same products,» he wrote.
A
study published today inThe Journal of Experimental Biology reveals how the creature puts
on its colorful show: by flexing its muscles.
New fishery regulations based
on science are needed in the Caribbean to give coral reefs a fighting chance against climate change, according to an international
study published today.
Mitrovica is one of the authors of a new
study on the phenomenon,
published in
today's Science.
A new
study published today in Science, though, suggests our capacity to reason logically may not actually depend
on language, at least not fully.
The
study,
published today in Nature, is the first to demonstrate that the online world can affect a significant real - world behavior
on a large scale, say the researchers.
In a
study published in the inaugural issue of the journal Applied Materials
Today, a new rapid, online only publication, the team of researchers describe how they make these films which are based
on the heavy metals lanthanum and europium.
The
study,
published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is the first to show lenvatinib has a definitive impact
on overall survival (OS).