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Released: 5-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Study Finds Higher Protein Intake Improves Diet Quality When Trying to Lose Weight
Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences

New study concludes that boosting protein intake while dieting improves the quality of what we eat and may slow loss of lean body mass.

Released: 5-Jul-2022 7:05 AM EDT
More Dogs in the Neighborhood Often Means Less Crime
Ohio State University

If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other – and have a lot of dogs to walk.

Newswise: Only Seven Percent of Adults Have Good Cardiometabolic Health
28-Jun-2022 10:25 AM EDT
Only Seven Percent of Adults Have Good Cardiometabolic Health
Tufts University

Less than seven percent of the U.S. adult population has good cardiometabolic health, according to a new study. The researchers also identified large health disparities between people of different sexes, ages, races and ethnicities, and education levels.

Released: 1-Jul-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Study Highlights Heavy Mental Health Burden of COVID-19 for ‘Shielders’
University of Bath

Research from a new study suggests that health anxiety among the clinically vulnerable groups who shielded at home has risen since the first pandemic wave, despite developments in viral treatment and the roll-out of the vaccination programme.

Newswise: Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe
Released: 1-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe
Waseda University

As telescopes have become more advanced and powerful, astronomers have been able to detect more and more distant galaxies. These are some of the earliest galaxies to form in our universe that began to recede away from us as the universe expanded.

Newswise: Birds Warned of Food Shortages by Neighbor Birds Change Physiology and Behavior to Prepare
Released: 1-Jul-2022 12:55 PM EDT
Birds Warned of Food Shortages by Neighbor Birds Change Physiology and Behavior to Prepare
Oregon State University

Songbirds learning from nearby birds that food supplies might be growing short respond by changing their physiology as well as their behavior, research by the Oregon State University College of Science shows.

Newswise: Whales Learn Songs From Each Other in a Cultural ‘Deep Dive’
Released: 1-Jul-2022 12:40 PM EDT
Whales Learn Songs From Each Other in a Cultural ‘Deep Dive’
University of Queensland

A University of Queensland-led study has found humpback whales can learn incredibly complex songs from whales from other regions.

Newswise: The Pair of Orcas Deterring Great White Sharks – by Ripping Open Their Torsos for Livers
Released: 30-Jun-2022 1:10 PM EDT
The Pair of Orcas Deterring Great White Sharks – by Ripping Open Their Torsos for Livers
Taylor & Francis

A pair of Orca (Killer Whales) that have been terrorizing and killing Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017 has managed to drive large numbers of the sharks from their natural aggregation site.

Newswise: Wildfires May Have Sparked Ecosystem Collapse During Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction
Released: 30-Jun-2022 10:40 AM EDT
Wildfires May Have Sparked Ecosystem Collapse During Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction
University College Cork

Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History examined the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago) that eliminated almost every species on Earth, with entire ecosystems collapsing.

Released: 29-Jun-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Study: Robots Driving U.S. Co-Workers to Substance Abuse, Mental Health Issues
University of Pittsburgh

A University of Pittsburgh study suggests that while American workers who work alongside industrial robots are less likely to suffer physical injury, they are more likely to suffer from adverse mental health effects — and even more likely to abuse drugs or alcohol.

   
Released: 29-Jun-2022 11:40 AM EDT
Under 30 Percent of U.S. Kids Have High Scores for Heart Health
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Most children and adolescents living in the U.S. have suboptimal scores for cardiovascular health (CVH), according to the first study to use the American Heart Association’s new “Life’s Essential 8” metrics and scoring algorithm for quantifying CVH levels in adults and children. Overall, under 30 percent of 2-19-year-olds had high CVH. The proportion of children with high CVH declined markedly with older age: 56 percent of 2-5-year-old children had high CVH, compared with 33 percent of 6-11-year-olds and 14 percent of 12-19-year-olds.

Newswise: Update Noise Regulations to Protect Seals, Porpoises
22-Jun-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Update Noise Regulations to Protect Seals, Porpoises
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, scientists in Denmark review recent experiments and find noise regulations may need to be changed to protect porpoises, seals, and other sea-dwelling mammals. Current guidance for seals and porpoises is based on few measurements in a limited frequency range; the guidance is still valid for these frequencies, but investigators found substantial deviations in recent studies of the impact of low frequency noise on seals and high frequency noise on porpoises.

Newswise: Seat Assignments Drive Friendships Among Elementary School Children
Released: 28-Jun-2022 8:30 AM EDT
Seat Assignments Drive Friendships Among Elementary School Children
Florida Atlantic University

Most teachers focus on academic considerations when assigning seats. A new study is the first to show that these classroom seat assignments also have important implications for children’s friendships and the enormous influence that teachers wield over the interpersonal lives of children.

Newswise: Microbe Protects Honey Bees From Poor Nutrition, a Significant Cause of Colony Loss
Released: 27-Jun-2022 4:25 PM EDT
Microbe Protects Honey Bees From Poor Nutrition, a Significant Cause of Colony Loss
Indiana University

Researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees.

Released: 27-Jun-2022 6:05 AM EDT
Sentience is beside the point when it comes to AI & ethics
Washington University in St. Louis

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik doesn’t know exactly what sentience is. Since he’s an engineer, not a philosopher, Vorobeychik can’t say what it’s like to be a bat  or a tree or a rock. He can’t quantify the importance of embodiment to consciousness. He’s not even sure that there’s an inherent problem with people reacting to an artificial intelligence in ways similar to how they react to other people.

Released: 24-Jun-2022 11:05 AM EDT
COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy Helps Protect Infants from Needing Hospital Care for COVID-19
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

In a new study sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers provide additional evidence that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect babies younger than 6 months from being hospitalized due to COVID-19. The risk of COVID-19 hospitalization among babies was reduced by about 80 percent during the Delta wave (July 1–December 18, 2021) and 40 percent during the Omicron wave (December 19–March 8, 2022).

Released: 22-Jun-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Faculty Scientists and Clinicians Publish Findings of World’s First Successful Transplant of Genetically Modified Pig Heart into Human Patient
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Six months ago, University of Maryland School of Medicine surgeon-scientists successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57 year-old patient with terminal heart disease in a first-of-its-kind surgery.

Newswise: NASA’s Webb to Uncover Riches of the Early Universe
Released: 22-Jun-2022 10:05 AM EDT
NASA’s Webb to Uncover Riches of the Early Universe
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Telescopes have spotted many distant galaxies – but none earlier than 400 million years after the big bang. What were galaxies that existed even earlier like? Two research teams using the James Webb Space Telescope will wield its state-of-the-art instruments to reveal an untold number of details about this early period in the universe for the first time – and revise what we know about some of the earliest chapters of galaxy evolution.

Newswise: Natural Disasters Can Accelerate Changes to Tropical Forests
Released: 22-Jun-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Natural Disasters Can Accelerate Changes to Tropical Forests
University of Miami

University of Miami associate professor Kenneth Feeley conducted a lengthy study on forests in Jamaica and learned that hurricanes can magnify the effects of climate change, allowing species from warmer climates to replace those that prefer cooler temperatures.



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