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Today is National Napping Day in the US, and on this occasion, worldwide scientists argued that a quick snooze in the day time has many benefits that most of us aren’t aware of.

Napping day assists people in the US to adjust after daylight savings take effect, as per the Days of the Year. In most of the world, nap is an integral part of the cultural practice, and isn’t just an event due to ‘spring forward’.

A breakthrough development could save lives of millions of people in America suffering from heart disease and failure.

Every year, over half a million people lose their lives in the United States due to heart failure, and thousands of them waiting for a suitable transplant. However a new scientific paper has come up with a potential answer to this deficiency: growing new ones.

A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) decided to do so. Published in the journal Circulation Research this week, their work proved that the idea can possibly become a game changer. The researchers used skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells for to produce functional heart tissue.

On Tuesday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is going to review Abbott's one-of-a-kind dissolving medical implant to evaluate its possible risks for the patients of heart attack and blood clot.

Abbott has requested FDA to approve its novel coronary stent, known as Absorb, as a substitute to metal stents, which has been in use for the treatment of narrowing arteries that generally result into heart attack or death.

Abbott's Absorb isn’t like traditional bare-metal stents that stay in place. Instead, it disappears within the body in a time span of three years after clearing fat-clogged arteries.

The family of a three-year-old brain cancer patient said that the simple act of receiving mail has been brightening the little girl’s days. At age of 4 months, Ellie Walton got diagnosed with brain tumor. The girl is now three, and has undergone more than 13 brains surgeries, as per her mother, Sarah Walton. Presently, the toddler is battling glioblastoma multiforme, which is a deadly type of brain cancer.

Walton said that during the past some months, the family has found an unusual and unexpected way of cheering up Ellie: postcards.

A couple of years back, two scientific studies mentioned that the West Antarctica glaciers, holding back more than 3 meters of likely sea level rise, have been melting and diminishing from below.

The reason behind the same was apparently that these glaciers are floating on the seafloor deep underneath the ocean surface, and have been lapped at due to the flows of hot ocean currents.

Since then, the main focus of researchers has been more and more on West Antarctica, and now a latest research appeared in Nature Geoscience on Monday has revealed yet another outcome of this warm water intrusion. The latest revelation has further highlighted the areas’ susceptibility.

Habitat loss is not the only problem bee populations around the globe is facing. Some diseases and deadly parasites are also behind the dwindling numbers of bees. Now, a new study has revealed that even low pesticide exposure can upset the insect’s foraging behavior.

Exposure to pesticides can push bees to change their flower choices, learning and remembering abilities and skills to collect pollen and nectar, as per the study. During the study, bumblebees exposed to neonicotinoid insecticide took longer time than unaffected bees to collect pollen.