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A night out at the bar might increase your risk of an unwanted pregnancy, a study suggests.  Researchers in California surveyed 2,200 young women, approximately 40 percent of whom explicitly said they did not want to get pregnant.  Of the women who said they did not want to become pregnant, about half were heavy drinkers, meaning they had at least …

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the first time in such a nearby galaxy, watched as a faint stream of stars is being pulled from one into the other. The observations, made in the galaxy cluster Abell 3667, revealed a faint, million light-year-long bridge of stars connecting …

Researchers in China say they have recreated the elusive “meteorite diamond” in a laboratory – settling six decades of debate about the material’s existence. The first hexagonal-structured diamond was discovered in 1967 within the Canyon Diablo meteorite that hit Arizona 49,000 years ago. It was widely believed to have formed from graphite under the intense heat and pressure generated by …

Scientists Discover “Master Key” Protein for Stronger Memory and Learning  SciTechDaily Intersectin protein discovery may help treat cognitive disorders  Drug Target Review Johns Hopkins uncovers protein’s unexpected role in brain signaling  News-Medical Source link

A fascinating study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals a groundbreaking discovery about the feeding behavior of sea spiders in methane-rich ecosystems off the coast of Southern California. Marine biologist Shana Goffredi and her team have uncovered a new survival strategy that enables these tiny, translucent arachnids, identified as Sericosura, to thrive in one of …

After 25 years of research, scientists at Northwestern University, USA, have discovered why some adults can live well into their 80s and beyond with near-perfect cognition. These ‘super-agers’, as the researchers call them, are aged 80 or older, but their memory is as good as that of adults in their 50s and 60s. Since 2000, scientists have studied 290 of …

Scientists have uncovered these weird facts about psychopathic individuals  PsyPost Source link

A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought. The virus, known as beta-HPV, was thought in rare cases to contribute to skin cancer by worsening UV damage, but a new study suggests it can actually hijack the body’s cells to directly drive cancer growth. These fresh conclusions came from a study of a 34-year-old …

Great white sharks are magnificent creatures and an icon among sea predators. But despite their fame across the world, inspiring stories, books, films, games, and more, there’s still a great deal we do not know about them. In an effort to answer a long-running question surrounding their populations, scientists have stumbled into a deeper mystery concerning their genetics that has …

Europa’s Bizarre Hotspot: Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Space Mystery  SciTechDaily Source link