Women run faster after taking newly developed supplement, study finds
A new study found that women who took a specially prepared blend of minerals and nutrients for a month saw their 3-mile run times drop by almost a minute. The women who took the supplement also saw improvements in distance covered in 25 minutes on a stationary bike and a third test in which they stepped on and off a bench, according to research from The Ohio State University.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/osu-wrf011818.php
Americans are getting more ZZZZs
Although more than one in three Americans still don't get enough sleep, a new analysis shows first signs of success in the fight for more shut eye.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uops-aag011818.php
Temporary 'bathtub drains' in the ocean concentrate flotsam
An experiment using hundreds of plastic drifters in the Gulf of Mexico shows that rather than simply spread out, as current calculations would predict, many of them clumped together in a tight cluster.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uow-td011818.php
Patients who live alone can safely be sent home after joint replacement
Most patients who live alone can be safely discharged home from the hospital to recover after hip or knee replacement surgery, suggests a study in the Jan. 17, 2018 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in partnership with Wolters Kluwer.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/wkh-pwl011818.php
Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on Earth
Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/lu-nho011818.php
Mothers and young struggle as Arctic warms
A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and partners reveals for the first time the ways in which wild weather swings and extreme icing events are negatively impacting the largest land mammal of the Earth's polar realms -- the muskoxen. The paper demonstrates that while this denizen of the Arctic and other cold-adapted species have spectacular adaptations, the previously unknown effects of rain-on-snow events, winter precipitation, and ice tidal surges are costly for the animals, if not deadly.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/wcs-may011818.php
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