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Social support was first described by G.E. Moss in his 1973 publication Illness, Immunity, and Social Interaction. In the last four decades, the definition of social support has evolved. You could call it the exchange of resources with the intent to enhance well-being or just people helping people.

On Nov. 4, the 41st annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) closed without making significant progress toward the establishment of new marine protected areas (MPAs) and fishery regulations. The scientific community and most delegates to the meeting had urged the adoption of new protections for Southern Ocean […]

Twitter trolls and polarised debate on Covid have caused almost one in four academics to scale back public engagement, says Elsevier study

If Maharashtra does not reduce the thermal power plants and act on other sources of aerosol, the contamination could enter red zone, says a study

Increased consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths.

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), have highest consumption in modern world as they are ready-to-eat-or-heat industrial formulations made with ingredients extracted from foods or synthesized in ...

In Elsevier's newly released 95-page 'Confidence in Research' report, international scientists, scholars, and researchers are the respondents.

The COVID-19 pandemic increased public interest in science but has not led to a better understanding of how it operates, according to a survey of 3,144 researchers around the world. This has led to concerns by around half of those polled that their research is being over-simplified by the public on social media and by established media outlets, leading to its politicisation.

Traditional foods and meals created from fresh and minimally processed components are gradually being replaced by ultra-processed foods (UPFs), ready-to-eat or heat industrial formulations made with substances taken from foods or synthesised in laboratories, recent research has revealed.

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), ready-to-eat-or-heat industrial formulations made with ingredients extracted from foods or synthesized in laboratories, have gradually been replacing traditional foods and meals made from fresh and minimally processed ingredients in many countries.