Author name: Payal Gupta

Dentists Issue Various Tips on Dental Hygiene for Seniors

An individual’s teeth and gums should acquire all the attentiveness they can give them throughout their lifetime. However, scientific studies caution that a person’s oral health can be affected by the rate of growing older. The scientists highlighted that one must add more measures to take care of their teeth and gums as one grows …

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Study Shows That Multitasking While Walking Does Not Affect Performance

A study at the University of Rochester’s Del Monte Institute of Neuroscience has found that people with healthy brains can multitask while walking without it affecting their performance on each activity. According to the lead study author and a student at the Pathology and Cell Biology Disease Program, University of Rochester, David Richardson, the study …

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Track Your Heart Rate through Workouts to Maximize on Your Fitness Progression

If you work out regularly, how do you measure your fitness progression? Knowing how far you can run and at what pace is very important for anyone working out. The good news is that with technology comes excellent ways of ensuring you are maximizing your fitness. For example, your heart rate is one of the …

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Forgetting Something Maybe a Form of Learning, Scientists Outline in the Journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Forgetting sounds very typical, and we have all been victims of it regardless of what we forgot consciously or subconsciously. Additionally, the brain has specific storage and can only operate to its maximum. Anything else after that is either replaced or spilled out of memory. Unfortunately, smartphones and other devices over the last decade have …

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Exercising Different Times of Day Produces Varying Results, Find out Why and How

Exercise improves health, and from recent research, it benefits the body in different ways, depending on the time of day and the activities involved. How often and what time of day do your exercise? Are you a morning or an evening person? And did you know that the timing of exercise produces different effects? The …

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An H5N1 Bird Flu Epidemic in Burkina Faso Results in the Death of at Least 500,000 Hens

Scientists have sent out a warning regarding an impending increase of outbreaks among farmed birds. A bird flu epidemic in Burkina Faso, which claimed at least 500,000 hens, triggered the call to farmers to be on the lookout. Through the Animal Resources Minister Moussa Kabore, the West African country reported having noted a high mortality …

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Researchers create a Nanoantenna, the World’s Tiniest Antenna to Monitor the Motions of Proteins

Protein molecules carry all kinds of essential tasks in the body. Their primary role is to support the immune system to regulate organ functions. However, according to scientists, proteins undergo constant structural changes. And in their desire to track these changes, chemists at the Université de Montréal have used DNA to create a nanoantenna. The …

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The Nudge Theory Proves to be Effective in Changing People’s Behavior than Coercion

Emotions, memories, opinions, and environment are some of the biases which influence people. This means that instead of an awareness-raising campaign or a ban, these and other similar elements can effectively get people to change certain behaviors. An American economist Richard Thaler spelled this out in the 2000s, referring to it as the “Nudge Theory.” …

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Estimating a Person’s Life Expectancy through an Online Calculator

Did you know that the United Kingdom is ranked 29th in the world regarding life expectancy? While Hong Kong ranks the first in the worldwide chart at 85.3 years? And in comparison, the United States ranks 46th, with a life expectancy of 79.8 years. Recent reports indicate that one is expected to reach 100 years …

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