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Research was published in the Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
The study tracked 134 volunteers, ranging from 19 to 63 years of age, through a custom app installed on their Android phones.
According to researchers, rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have a 47% greater risk of the lung condition.
The research found that almost 10 per cent of the world's total catch in the last decade was discarded due to poor fishing practices and inadequate management.
According to the researchers from the University of British Columbia, the drug is found to be effective in chemotherapy-resistant bladder cancer, which is the the fifth most common among the numerous types of cancer.
For decades, researchers from a range of different fields have tried to explain the phenomenon of humour and what happens on a cognitive level in the moment when we "get the joke".
Lymphatic filariasis is caused by parasitic worms, and is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
In vascular cognitive impairment, problems with memory and thinking skills result from damage to large and small blood vessels in the brain.
Multiple sclerosis is known to run in certain families, but attempts to find genes linked to the disease have been elusive.
For the study, two groups of 30 participants were given a target-detection task called the Go or No Go.
In addition, children born with a low birth weight were more susceptible to the respiratory effects of air pollution, the study showed.
Consumers are feeling so overwhelmed by requests from their smartphones, PCs and the online services that they habitually use, that they're increasingly blindly clicking 'accept' or 'OK'.
The scientists discovered that fish are far more effective at delivering oxygen throughout their body than almost any other animal, giving them the athletic edge over other species.
A team of researchers has created a self-propelled powder to stop bleeding.
Researchers have proposed a new method to calculate distances in the cosmos using mysterious bursts of energy.
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