Florida State University College of Medicine researchers have linked aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in nearly 5,000 diet foods and drinks, to anxiety-like behavior in mice. Along with producing anxiety in the mice who consumed aspartame, the effects extended up to two generations from the males exposed to the sweetener. The study is published in […]

National Institutes of Health researchers have shown that areas of the genome related to brain development harbor variants that may account for behavioral differences among different dog lineages. The study, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and published in the journal Cell, involved citizen science projects that used DNA samples and surveys collected from […]

Researchers in Italy have investigated how polystyrene nanoparticles interact with human ubiquitin, a regulatory protein found in most tissues.1 Their study showed that nanoplastics change the structure of ubiquitin and disrupt cell ubiquitination processes, which could have implications for human health. Nanoplastics and microplastics have diameters of less than 100nm and 5mm, respectively, and are […]

Two Ohio State University health sciences professors have been elected as members of the National Academy of Inventors 2022 class of fellows. Jianrong Li, professor of virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Biosciences, and Peixuan Guo, holder of the Sylvan G. Frank Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery in the College of […]

A tool using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms is being rolled-out on journals to automatically flag reproducibility, transparency and authorship problems in scientific papers. The tool, Ripeta, has existed since 2017 and has already been run on millions of journal papers following its release, but now the tool’s creators have enabled its latest […]

A three-month pilot study of patients with hypertension appearing in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, published by Elsevier, demonstrates that adding yoga to a regular exercise training regimen supports cardiovascular health and wellbeing and is more effective than stretching exercises. Incorporation of yoga reduced systolic blood pressure and resting heart rate and improved 10-year cardiovascular risk. Yoga is […]

Thanks to new University of Colorado Boulder research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a whole new light—and now, the world can as well. Using bright green lasers and camera equipment, a team of CU Boulder engineers ran an experiment to reveal how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are […]

Gig workers, waiters, salespeople and others who rely on fluctuating income may be paying for wage volatility with their health, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. In three studies spanning several industries in the U.S., workers who experienced more volatile pay reported worse physical health symptoms, including poor sleep quality, headaches, stomach […]

White Americans who think that White people are poor are more likely to believe that welfare recipients are hardworking, and to support welfare policies, according to new research in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Previous studies on this subject have focused on White Americans’ beliefs that poor people are Black and the resulting dehumanization of the […]

Progress has been made on a universal flu vaccine – one that works against all current subtypes and should be future-proofed against mutations of the virus. The new multivalent mRNA vaccine encoded hemagglutinins (HA), one of two major surface proteins of flu, from all known A and B influenza subtypes. When they injected two doses into […]