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How studying oral inflammatory diseases can help researchers understand other human diseas

A team of researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, the VCU School of Dentistry and the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study in Nature Communications examining why some oral inflammatory diseases progress much more rapidly than others.

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How the brain's chemical messengers control consciousness and sleep

Scientists at Newcastle University's Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL, Switzerland) and leading institutions in Spain, have published a study that advances understanding of the brain's chemical messengers—acetylcholine,

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Enhancing safety of advanced radiotherapy cancer treatments for children

Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have published new findings that improve understanding of secondary neutron exposure during pediatric ion beam therapy, an important area of study

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Scientists uncover genetic clues from a tumor-prone reptile that could advance cancer rese

A new study led by experts at the University of Nottingham suggests a pet gecko with an unusually high risk of tumors may be a promising model for understanding how cancer develops and spreads. The findings of the study, which are published in BMC Biology, could help explain why

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Pride Month has great significance for those who feel invisible. In Slovenia, many LGBTQ+

One of the first steps taken by Slovenia's new right-wing government in June was to remove the rainbow flag outside the Culture Ministry. As Pride Month draws to a close, DW surveys the situation of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started

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The surprising ways your brain changes from your 20s to your 40s

When does your brain reach adulthood? We're now understanding the many ways the organ continues to mature decades after society first deems you an adult

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We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pluto

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial to understanding Titan’s complex chemistry

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The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse

The loss of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing the secrets of this remotest of places, and asking the question: is its demise inevitable?

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Can video games help us better understand quantum mechanics?

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum computers in their development. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explores how these could change our understanding of quantum physics, or even help us mak

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Chris Packham: 'I'd throw myself in front of a T. Rex to be consumed'

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary science is so important if we are to truly appreciate the natural world - and how he would happily die at the hands of a Tyrannosaurus rex

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A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a feature of nervous systems that we see in our own right- and left-handedness

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