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New study on women’s anal pleasure shows ther | EurekAlert!
Jun 29, 2022 · ‘Anal sex’ has long been narrowly defined as in-and-out penetration. But three previously unnamed, but distinct, anal touch techniques also emerged from the study that many women find pleasurable.
Scientists design new drug to fight malaria | EurekAlert!
Sep 26, 2024 · A team led by scientists at UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and Yale School of Medicine has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action.
Bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer imm | EurekAlert!
Oct 16, 2024 · Bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy Columbia researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and ...
Mystery of Uruguay’s amethyst geodes | EurekAlert!
Oct 2, 2024 · Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Geodes are hollow rock formations often with quartz ...
Clinical trial shows synthetic cannabis reduc | EurekAlert!
Oct 2, 2024 · In a study led by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, researchers show that a pill form of the drug dronabinol, an FDA-approved synthetic ...
Ant agriculture began 66 million years ago in | EurekAlert!
Oct 3, 2024 · According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal conditions for ...
New Zealand’s kākāpō developed different feat | EurekAlert!
Sep 10, 2024 · Aotearoa New Zealand’s flightless parrot, the kākāpō, evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, Lara Urban at Helmholtz AI ...
When muscles work out, they help neurons to g | EurekAlert!
Nov 12, 2024 · Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...
Preclinical studies suggest a drug-free nasal | EurekAlert!
Sep 25, 2024 · Preclinical studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections Researchers from the Brigham detail how the spray they created may offer broad-spectrum protection from ...