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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people (opens the original)
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Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.
A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond (opens the original)
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A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.
A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting (opens the original)
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First, the bad news: Of all the rivers in the contiguous United States, only 6 percent are both in healthy condition and meaningfully safeguarded. The good news is that many more may be just one repair away from thriving. A new map highlights where conservation money and attention would do the most good as the climate warms, researchers report September 16 in PLOS One. The effort is the most comprehensive to date, assessing the health of the lower 48 states’ rivers and streams. “We can now point
Exhaling may speed up reaction times (opens the original)
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Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on whether they’re breathing in or out.
A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance (opens the original)
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A look one thousand years into the past is revealing clues about how to develop the bacteria-fighting drugs of the future.A concoction from a 10th century medical manuscript damaged cell membranes, altered the expression of disease-promoting genes and interfered with interbacterial communication when added to bacterial cultures, researchers report September 3 in mSphere. What’s more, three kinds of harmful bacteria developed resistance to the medicinal mixture much more slowly compared with conv
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