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A new study has found that patients with obesity have much higher risk of developing an infection soon after heart bypass surgery.

Researchers have found that popping balloons can be louder than shotgun blasts and can lead to permanent hearing loss.

Dismissing a common perception that dinosaurs were solitary, vicious monsters, researchers have found evidence that just like most modern animals, these gigantic creatures too loved company and they lived and died together in groups.

Reimink's study found the presence of well-preserved grains of the mineral zircon during fieldwork in an area roughly 300 km north of Yellowknife.

This is definitely a good health tip which all would-be-mothers should follow.

One of the key factors for this process are proteins we all have that, in larger quantities, may cause a decrease in the amount of LDL receptors to excrete the cholesterol.

Femtosecond laser pulses - each ultrashort pulse occurring every 10-15 seconds - were delivered to the meeting point of the two cells.

While the diamonds of this study were found in 3 billion-year-old sedimentary rocks, diamond formation occurred much deeper, within Earth's mantle.

Patients who were not prescribed any opioids had statistically lower disability and higher physical functioning scores, the findings showed.

The researchers reviewed a decade's worth of data from medical examinations.

Although the preserved feathers are extremely crushed due to sediment compaction, scanning electron microscopy shows a three-dimensional keratin structure to the feathers on the tail and body.

Researchers have identified a 'dimmer switch' which could delay the onset of Type-2 diabetes.