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Adding five minutes exercise a day can help lower blood pressure, study says

Researchers say choosing to climb stairs or cycle to the shops is enough to have a positive effectDoing just five extra minutes of exercise a day could help lower blood pressure, a study suggests.High blood pressure affects 1.28 billion adults worldwide and is one of the biggest causes of premature death. It can lead to strokes, heart attacks, heart...

Thu Nov 7, 2024 07:41
Niall Logan obituary

My husband, Niall Logan, who has died aged 70 of pulmonary fibrosis, was an expert on bacillus, a genus of rod-shaped bacteria with more than 250 named species that has many uses, including as an industrial enzyme, in food production, the making of detergents and in DNA research.One of his main contributions to the field was to help with the scientific...

Thu Nov 7, 2024 00:38
What will Trump 2.0 mean for science? – podcast

Madeleine Finlay talks to science editor and podcast co-host Ian Sample about how Donald Trump approached science when in office last time, and what his second term is likely to mean for the environment, health and scientific researchClips: Fox News, CSPAN, MSNBCTrump’s queasy prescription to ‘make America healthy again’ takes shape Continue reading...

Wed Nov 6, 2024 22:38
Ian Shipsey obituary

Physicist whose silicon devices helped to unlock the secrets of the earliest fractions of a second of our universeThe physicist Ian Shipsey, who has died suddenly aged 65, developed silicon devices of exquisite precision to study the debris from subatomic particle collisions and light from the edge of the universe. Using these devices, he played a major...

Wed Nov 6, 2024 20:37
Study raises hopes of treating aggressive cancers by zapping rogue DNA

Tumours could be reduced by targeting genetic material driving their growth with a new drug in early-stage trialsScientists have raised hopes of treating some of the most aggressive cases of cancer by targeting small fragments of rogue DNA that help tumours thrive and become resistant to chemotherapy.The breakthrough emerged from a US-UK study that...

Wed Nov 6, 2024 18:10
The sunscreen myth: could it really be causing skin cancer? | Antiviral

Overblown concerns about potential dangers of a common chemical threaten to undermine scientific evidence to the contraryBecause of his job as a dermatologist, Dr Deshan Sebaratnam frequently gets asked questions by friends, family and strangers about skin treatments. But lately, he says, he has been confronted by “a lot of myths around sunscreens”,...

Wed Nov 6, 2024 16:28

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