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In a study of Law students awaiting their Bar exam results, researchers found participants who were naturally more mindful or who practiced mindfulness managed their expectations more effectively by bracing for the worst later in the waiting period and perceived themselves as coping better.

New microscope has more than 100 times larger field of view for studying brain activity.

A recent study showed that small amounts of artificial vanilla extract, also known as vanillin, could be used to prevent or reduce psoriatic skin inflammation.

Researchers have found that estimates for methane emissions from livestock, an important environmental pollutant, by location varied widely from numbers currently reported by inventories. This therefore casts doubt on the results of studies that have used these data.

Researchers have developed a way to make simple, cheap detection devices more versatile and reliable for analyzing both liquid and solid samples using adhesive tape.

The MHRA has announced Viagra Connect (sildenafil 50mg) will be formally classified from a prescription only medicine (POM) to a pharmacy medicine (P). This means it could be available without prescription for use by men over 18 who have erectile dysfunction.

A decade of data on hundreds of boys and girls who received the HPV vaccine indicates the vaccine is safe and effective long term in protecting against the most virulent strains of the virus, researchers report.

Investigators amassed a large database of private drinking water wells and compared their locations to hydraulic fracturing sites. Conducting a scientific analysis of data that spanned 15 years, from 2000 to 2014, and covered nearly 27,000 wells in 14 states, they found that about half of all hydraulically fractured wells stimulated in 2014 existed within 2 to 3 kilometers of a domestic groundwater well posing important health concerns.

Scientists have identified 'sequence co-variation' by analyzing the repertoire of mutations across thousands of members of a protein family. Within the three-dimensional structure of protein, certain amino acids interact so closely with each other that the mutation of one of them must be counteracted by compensatory mutations of the others to keep the protein functional.

Prof. Rui L. Reis, from the University of Minho in Portugal has been awarded £350K for his work in the field of 3D tissue engineering for regenerative therapies and disease models.