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Salt Levels in Food Still Dangerously High
May 13, 2013 The dangerously high salt levels in processed food and fast food remain unchanged, despite numerous calls from health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium. Excess sodium in the ... > full story -
Individual and Small-Chain Restaurant Meals Exceed Recommended Daily Calorie Needs
May 13, 2013 Researchers analyzed meals from independent and small-chain restaurants, which account for approximately 50% of the nation’s restaurant locations. They found that the average single meal ... > full story -
New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discovery
May 13, 2013 Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for ... > full story -
Master Regulator That Drives Majority of Lymphoma Discovered
May 13, 2013 A soon-to-be-tested class of drug inhibitors were predicted to help a limited number of patients with B-cell lymphomas with mutations affecting the EZH2 protein. However medical researchers now ... > full story -
Level of Dengue Virus Needed for Transmission Defined
May 13, 2013 Researchers have identified the dose of dengue virus in human blood that is required to infect mosquitoes when they bite. Mosquitoes are essential for transmitting the virus between people so the ... > full story -
Productivity Increases With Species Diversity, Just as Darwin Predicted
May 13, 2013 Environments containing species that are distantly related to one another are more productive than those containing closely related species, according to new ... > full story -
Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative Research Suggests
May 13, 2013 Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined ... > full story -
Receptor Proteins Could Hold Clues to Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA
May 13, 2013 Scientists have identified four new proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling molecule in bacteria such as ... > full story -
Using Earthquake Sensors to Track Endangered Whales
May 13, 2013 Oceanographers used data from seafloor seismometers to analyze more than 300,000 fin-whale calls. By triangulating the position they created more than 150 tracks off the Pacific Northwest ... > full story -
Fish Oil Doesn't Seem to Help Age-Related Macular Degeneration
May 13, 2013 A large-scale study of age-related macular degeneration suggests fish oil supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids do not alter the progression of age-related macular degeneration, and that lutein ... > full story
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