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A study on youth baseball players reveals a high risk of elbow injuries, particularly in those with immature skeletons. MRI exams show different injury patterns in immature versus mature players. The findings highlight the importance of awareness and proper technique in reducing injury risk. Youth baseball players, particularly those who haven’t fully matured skeletally, are at a higher risk for elbow pain and injuries, a recent study reveals. This study, which was recently presented at the annual meeting of the…

A University of Cambridge study involving 1,500 older adults shows that reduced physical activity and increased sedentary behavior lead to a lower quality of life. Regular moderate-intensity activity is recommended to mitigate the risks of diseases and improve overall well-being. A study conducted by the University of Cambridge involving nearly 1,500 adults over 60 years old demonstrates a significant correlation between decreased physical activity and a lower quality of life. The study also finds that increased…

A recent study has found that the electricity produced by an electric eel’s discharge is strong enough to cause the transfer of genetic material from the environment into the cells of nearby animals. The finding suggests that electric eels – and other electricity-generating organisms – could affect genetic modification in nature.In the lab setting, electroporation involves the application of an electric field to cells to increase the permeability of their cell membrane, which allows foreign DNA to be introduced. It’s the…

Credit: Stanley Morales from Pexels Students achieve better grades in college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses when those classrooms have higher numbers of underrepresented racial-minority and first-generation college students, according to new research published in AERA Open. While this link holds true for…

DiD Graph: Trends in PSOE Vote Share in Treated and Control Municipalities. Credit: American Political Science Review (2023). DOI: 10.1017/S0003055423001235 A new study by UCL researchers shows how it's possible to phase out fossil fuels without sacrificing electoral popularity—even in coal mining regions. The new paper, published…

Psychology master’s student Lakota Wood found that non-Indigenous students rated common identifiers of Indigenous peoples in Canada as conveying less warmth and competence than those describing other ethnic groups. Credit: Geoff McMaster Many non-Indigenous Canadians may have a ways to go in shedding negative stereotypes of Indigenous people, according to a recent study by a University of Alberta master's student in…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Altai Mountains are located in the eastern hinterland of Central Asia, bordering Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. Chinese Altai Mountains, located in the north of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, belongs to the southern slope of the middle section of Altai Mountains. As an accumulation area of major cryosphere elements, cryosphere changes in the Chinese Altai Mountains have…

Topic analysis. The figure shows the historical prevalence of the most relevant topics identified in the initiatives of companies in the aligned (blue, N = 2255) and misaligned (green, N = 4984) populations. Overall, the figure illustrates that misaligned companies are more concerned about the management of existing assets (plant and fleet management), while companies with emission pathways aligned with the targets set by the Paris Agreement focus more…

We’ve all heard those stereotypes portraying people who speak Latin languages, whether that be Spanish, French, or Italian, as sounding more “passionate” or even “loud”.As it turns out, the stereotype may stem from some truth, as a new study published on Thursday (December 5) suggested that temperatures influence the way we talk.Dr. Søren Wichmann, a linguist at Kiel University in Germany, together with colleagues from China, demonstrated in the study that was published in the online journal PNAS Nexus that average…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research has shown that fire-ice—frozen methane which is trapped as a solid under our oceans—is vulnerable to melting due to climate change and could be released into the sea. An international team of researchers led by Newcastle University found that as frozen methane and ice melts, methane—a…