A 30-year study of more than 110,000 health professionals found that participants who ate at least two servings of avocado a week had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who rarely ate avocados. Replacing animal products like butter, cheese or bacon with avocado was also associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events.

A new series of lab-grade undercounter refrigerators from Thermo Fisher is designed to minimize energy usage and noise, by using thermoelectric devices in place of compressor technology.

A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high mountain streams.

Experts have identified for the first time exactly how exercise can lower your risk of getting bowel cancer and slow the growth of tumours. It is estimated that physical activity reduces the risk by approximately 20 percent.

Researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium have generated the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome. The experts believe that this study is vital for understanding the full spectrum of human genomic variation and for examining the genetic contributions to certain diseases.

A recent study reveals rapid degradation in air quality and increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. According to the scientists, the worst effects of air pollution on health will likely occur in the coming decades.

Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed. The way heat flows across bamboo cell walls has been mapped using advanced scanning thermal microscopy, providing a new understanding of how variations in thermal conductivity are linked to the bamboo’s elegant structure.

Macrophages travel through our arteries, gobbling fat the way Pac-man gobbled ghosts. But fat-filled macrophages can narrow blood vessels and cause heart disease. Now, UConn Health researchers describe in Nature Cardiovascular Research how deleting a protein could prevent this.

A team co-led team by the University of Surrey has successfully increased the levels of energy absorbed by wafer-thin photovoltaic panels by 25 percent. Their solar panels, just one micrometre thick (1 μm), convert light into electricity more efficiently than others as thin.

A Kaust-led research team have identified two consecutive mutations in the nucleocapsid (N) protein – R203K and G204R which are responsible for increased severity of Covid-19 in patients. Insights into this study can help doctors and drug companies to come up with suitable solutions to assist patients suffering from the virus.