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Salad at High School Concession Stands!?
Mar. 14, 2014 Is there something that can be done to improve the healthfulness of high school concession stand food, and preserve the profits they generate? According to this new study the answer is yes! This ... full story -
Years of High School Football Not Linked to Neurocognitive Decline, Study Suggests
Mar. 14, 2014 As more parents consider whether it’s safe for adolescents to play football, a new study of high school players found no link between years of play and any decline in neurocognitive function. The ... full story -
System to Predict Lightning Under Development
Mar. 14, 2014 Millions of people who work or play outdoors might one day soon have a new tool to help them reduce the risk of being struck by lightning. While there is no operational lightning forecast system ... full story -
Contagious Yawning a Mystery: May Not Be Linked to Empathy After All
Mar. 14, 2014 While previous studies have suggested a connection between contagious yawning and empathy, new research finds that contagious yawning may decrease with age and is not strongly related to variables ... full story -
Brighter Inks, Without Pigment: Nanostructured Capsules Could Bring About Paints and Electronic Displays That Never Fade
Mar. 14, 2014 Encapsulated nanoparticles can create bright colors by amplifying particular wavelengths of light. These microcapsules could offer a new, non-toxic and long-lasting source of color for paints and ... full story -
Do You Know Whether This Story Was Written by a Human?
Mar. 14, 2014 A recent study investigates how readers perceive computer-generated news articles. The advent of new technologies has always spurred questions about changes in journalism -- how it is produced and ... full story -
Genes May Thwart Seniors' Exercise Gains
Mar. 14, 2014 The ACE I/D gene and how its variations -- the ID, DD, and II genotypes -- cause some seniors' to lose out on the benefits of exercise, new research shows. These findings suggest that the ACE ... full story -
Big Data Tackles Tiny Molecular Machines
Mar. 14, 2014 Open, feed, cut. Such is the humdrum life of a motor molecule that eats and excretes damaged proteins and turns them into harmless peptides for disposal. The why is obvious: Without these trash bins, ... full story -
Blood Poisoning Increases the Risk of Blood Clots, New Research Shows
Mar. 14, 2014 The world's largest study of the correlation between blood poisoning and the risk of blood clots is underway. In recent years there has been a growing level of interest for the correlation ... full story -
Little Foot Is Oldest Complete Australopithecus, New Stratigraphic Research Shows
Mar. 14, 2014 After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is ... full story -
Link Between Diabetes, Pancreatic Cancer Found
Mar. 14, 2014 There is an association between pancreatic cancer and diabetes, new research indicates. While the numbers of pancreatic cancer in the population are relatively low, the study suggests a screening ... full story -
Atomically Thick Metal Membranes
Mar. 14, 2014 For the first time researchers have shown that freestanding metal membranes consisting of a single layer of atoms can be stable under ambient conditions. The success and promise of atomically thin ... full story -
Bone Lengthening Technique Proves Useful in Patients With Cleft Palate
Mar. 14, 2014 A technique called distraction osteogenesis can create increased length of the upper jaw in patients with cleft lip and palate deformities, report researchers. In this technique, hardware is placed ... full story -
New Approach to Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Treatment
Mar. 14, 2014 A novel and unique approach to treating Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a form of blood cancer that often requires repeated chemotherapy treatments to which it grows resistant, as been developed ... full story -
Motion, Muscles Don't Always Work in Lockstep, Researchers Find in Surprising New Study
Mar. 14, 2014 Animals 'do the locomotion' every day, whether it's walking down the hall to get some coffee or darting up a tree to avoid a predator. And until now, scientists believed the inner ... full story -
New Cell Line Should Accelerate Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Mar. 14, 2014 A new line of human embryonic stem cells that have the ability to develop into a far broader range of tissues than most existing cell lines has been created by researchers. The cells, called naοve ... full story -
Older Adults: Build Muscle and You'll Live Longer
Mar. 14, 2014 The more muscle mass older Americans have, the less likely they are to die prematurely, new research shows. The findings add to the growing evidence that overall body composition -- and not the ... full story -
Number of Days Without Rain to Dramatically Increase in Some World Regions
Mar. 14, 2014 By the end of the 21st century, some parts of the world can expect as many as 30 more days a year without precipitation, according to a new study. Ongoing climate change caused by human influences ... full story -
Drivers With Hemianopia Fail to Detect Pedestrians, Study Shows
Mar. 14, 2014 A diagnosis of hemianopia, or blindness in one-half of the visual field in both eyes as the result of strokes, tumors or trauma often means the end of driving. Researchers set out to determine the ... full story -
Critical Role of One Gene to Our Brain Development
Mar. 14, 2014 A gene linked to intellectual disability is critical to the earliest stages of the development of human brains, new research has confirmed. An international research team explains in a new paper how ... full story -
Impacts of Climate Change in Switzerland: Adaptation and Climate Change Mitigation Must Go Hand in Hand
Mar. 14, 2014 Southern Switzerland emerges as a hotspot of the effects of climate change. And the bark beetle is putting spruces all over Switzerland under increasing pressure, because an additional generation of ... full story
- Salad at high school concession stands!?
- Years of High School Football not linked to Neurocognitive Decline, study suggests
- System to predict lightning under development
- Contagious yawning a mystery: May not be linked to empathy after all
- Brighter inks, without pigment: Nanostructured capsules could bring about paints and electronic displays that never fade
- Do you know whether this story was written by a human?
- Genes may thwart seniors' exercise gains
- Big data tackles tiny molecular machines
- Blood poisoning increases the risk of blood clots, new research shows
- Little Foot is oldest complete Australopithecus, new stratigraphic research shows
- Link between diabetes, pancreatic cancer found
- Atomically thick metal membranes
- Bone lengthening technique proves useful in patients with cleft palate
- New approach to chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment
- Motion, muscles don't always work in lockstep, researchers find in surprising new study
- New cell line should accelerate embryonic stem cell research
- Older adults: Build muscle and you'll live longer
- Number of days without rain to dramatically increase in some world regions
- Drivers with hemianopia fail to detect pedestrians, study shows
- Critical role of one gene to our brain development
- Impacts of climate change in Switzerland: Adaptation and climate change mitigation must go hand in hand
- Blood test identifies brain damage from concussion in ice hockey
- An experiment recreates the crust of Jupiter's moon Europa
- Patients with schizophrenia have impaired ability to imitate, brain mapping confirms
- Education, culture affect children's understanding of human body
- Mindfulness-based meditation helps teenagers with cancer
- Fighting for oral dominance: Good fungi keep bad ones in check in healthy mouths
- Emotion detectors could make driving safer
- Negative effects of joining a gang last long after gang membership ends
- New stroke research combines brain stimulation, gait training
- Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier
- Autism, intellectual disability incidence linked with environmental factors
- Body's fatty folds may help fight kidney failure
- Languages written to design synthetic living systems useful for new products, health care
- Mexican-Americans suffer worse outcomes after stroke
- Stroke survivors may lose month of healthy life for 15-minute delay in treatment
- Husband's health, attitude loom large for happy long-term marriages
- Gene family that suppresses prostate cancer discovered
- Vitamin D hypothesis challenged: Some racial disparities in childbirth more environmental than genetic
- One in five older Americans take medications that work against each other
- Fish species unique to Hawaii dominate deep coral reefs in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
- Roomy cages built from DNA could one day deliver drugs, devices
- Migration, brain drain in China: Shifting slightly, but still going strong
- More accurate data on thousands of years of climate change
- Stirring the simmering 'designer baby' pot
- When big isn't better: How the flu bug bit Google
- Turning raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel
- More to biological diversity than meets the eye: Specialization by insect species is the key
- Stumbling fruit flies lead scientists to discover gene essential for sensing joint position
- Better way to make unnatural amino acids devised
- New ovarian cancer targets proposed: Proteins called TAFs
- Equation to describe competition between genes
- You should be ashamed -- or maybe not
- Prostate specific antigen screening declines after 2012 USPSTF recommendations
- Social ties influence who wins certain Hollywood movie awards
- Novel marker, possible therapeutic target for cardiovascular calcification identified
- We must forget to avoid serious mental disorders, and forgetting is actively regulated
- Scientists catch brain damage in the act
- Human brains 'hard-wired' to link what we see with what we do
- Reversible mechanism that increases muscle elasticity discovered
- Africans' ability to digest milk linked to spread of cattle raising
- 'Fluorescent' mouse can teach us about many diseases, drugs
- Extinct California porpoise had a unique underbite
- Commonly used pain relievers have added benefit of fighting bacterial infection
- New fossil species reveals parental care of young from 450 million years ago
- Neuroscientists forge path toward understanding human brain
- Immune cells need each other to combat deadly lung-invading fungus
- 'Velcro protein' found to play surprising role in cell migration
- 'Super circles' to lessen rush-hour traffic congestion
- Graphene-metal sandwich: Combining graphene and copper may shrink electronics
- Oxygen's different shapes described
- Cancer stem cells destroyed with cryoablation and nanoparticle-encapsulated anticancer drug
- One out of two parents do not see their child's weight problem
- Gene variants protect against relapse after treatment for hepatitis C
- Tropical grassy ecosystems under threat, scientists warn
- Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing: New robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish
- A brake for spinning molecules: Precise control of rotational temperature of molecular ions for lab-based astrochemistry
- What happened when? How the brain stores memories by time
- Most of the sand in Alberta's oilsands came from eastern North America, study shows
- 'Love hormone' oxytocin could provide new treatment for anorexia, study suggests
- Origin of life: Simulating how Earth kick-started metabolism
- Purified fish oils could help treat rare disease affecting newborn babies
- Exchange rate behaves like particles in a molecular fluid
- Genetic differences in female athletes with ACL injuries found in study
- Patients should wait 6-to-12 weeks before driving after shoulder surgery
- Comparable outcomes for outpatient, inpatient orthopaedic surgeries
- Hypertension going untreated in U.S. Hispanic community, study shows
- Only small number of symptomatic side effects reported in those taking statins are actually attributable to statins, study finds
- Trapped by an avalanche, saved by an app
- A brain signal for psychosis risk
- Environmentally friendly fashion? Dress knitted out of birch cellulose fiber
- Virtual lab for nuclear waste repository research
- Africa's air pollution underestimated in climate change models
- Targeting bacterial cell division to fight antibiotic resistance
- If you become poor can you ever be happy again?
- Performing cardio, resistance training during same session: Does order matter? Research says no
- 3-D X-ray film: Rapid movements in real time
- Heritable variation discovered in trout behavior
- Heart scans only useful in prescribing statins under certain conditions
- Bladder cancer patient with rare genetic mutations shows exceptional response to everolimus
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