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Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

Researchers "observed no increase in suicide death risk over time and even a decrease in suicide death risk in trans women. However, the suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning." (Netherlands)

Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties

In this survey study of US adults from 2000 to 2018, sexual inactivity increased among men aged 18 to 24 years and 25 to 34 years and women aged 25 to 34 years during the study period, with the increase among men mainly occurring among unmarried individuals.

Two Nights of Recovery Sleep Restores Hippocampal Connectivity but not Episodic Memory After Total Sleep Deprivation

Scientists closer to unravelling the mystery of anesthesia and consciousness

The size of the global economy was nearly $120 trillion in 2017 measured by new PPPs, and over half of economic activity was in low- and middle-income economies

Giving cash to poor families may also save trees in Indonesia. The country's anti-poverty program is associated with a 30 percent reduction in tree cover loss in villages.

Scientists discover unexpectedly large structure near Earth's core. It is amazing how little we know about what's down there.

Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States

Plastic dust is blowing into U.S. national parks — more than 1000 tons each year

Artificial brains may need sleep too. Neural networks that become unstable after continuous periods of self-learning will return to stability after exposed to sleep like states, according to a study, suggesting that even artificial brains need to nap occasionally.

Four more years of Donald Trump could 'delay global emissions cuts by 10 years’

Coronavirus: Scientists Are Questioning Past Research By The Founder of Surgisphere - “It’s like the guy went crazy with Photoshop,” said one expert in scientific image manipulation

No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

DNA vaccines protect monkeys from coronavirus. Researchers developed six DNA vaccines based on a coronavirus protein called spike.

New research shows how general anesthesia induces unconsciousness. A "billiard-like break shot" scatters lipid clusters in cell membranes, which releases an enzyme that liberates potassium from ion channels, leaving neurons hyper-polarized and inhibiting their ability to fire.

New research suggests that DNA and RNA co-existed before the emergence of life on Earth.

Bald men may be at a higher risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms, finds a new study in JAAD, which suggests that the link is so strong that baldness should be considered a risk factor called the "Gabrin sign", after the first physician to die of coronavirus in the US, Dr Frank Gabrin, who was bald.

Mosquitoes in Southern California Test Positive for West Nile Virus and St. Louis Encephalitis