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Discounts in Your DNA: Researchers Identify a Genetic Component to Bargain Hunting
Past research has indicated that, to some degree, people become deal prone through being taught by their parents. But a new paper, "Born to Shop? A Genetic Component of Deal Proneness," provides evidence that our genes also play a role in causing bargain-hunting enthusiasm.
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New Algorithm Can Automate ECG Recording
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is an examination that records the electrical activity of the heart during the cardiac cycle. New advances have shown ways to automate the recording of ECGs.
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Good News for Coffee Lovers' Hearts
Dietary information from three large, well-known heart disease studies suggests drinking one or more cups of caffeinated coffee may reduce heart failure risk.
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Why Aren't Our Brains Overloaded by Visual Stimuli?
Researchershave studied a hypothesis regarding the capability of the visual system to automatically categorize objects (i.e., without requiring attention span). The results of a simple and beautiful experiment confirmed this assumption.
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Antiviral Is Effective at Preventing and Treating COVID-19 in Lab Studies
The experimental drug EIDD-2801 halts SARS-CoV-2 replication and prevents infection of human cells in a new in vivo lab model containing human lung tissue.
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Happiness for Free: Study Investigated Wellbeing in Minimally Monetized Societies
Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but new research suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption
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Fighting Bacteria With Viruses in Hard-To-Reach Locations
A novel strategy using phage - viruses that infect bacteria - has the potential to become a game changer in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that live in hard-to-reach places.
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Children’s Finger Length “Points” to Mothers’ Income Level
Low-income mothers feminize their children in the womb by adjusting their hormones, whereas high-income mothers masculinize their children, a major study based on finger length, led by a Swansea University expert, has found.
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International Study Designed To Test Drugs for Early COVID-19 Infection
An international study to test drugs to treat COVID-19 patients is being run. The study will assess the effectiveness of ivermectin, metformin and fluvoxamine on preventing COVID-19 disease progression.
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Is There an Invisible Killer Lurking in Some Consumer Products?
Our consumer products, such as food, cosmetics and clothes, might be filled with nanomaterials - unbeknownst to us. The use of nanomaterials remains unregulated and they do not show up in lists of ingredients. A new study sheds light on whether they are harmful and what happens to them when they enter an organism.
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