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Surface Area of the Digestive Tract Much Smaller Than Previously Thought
Apr. 23, 2014 — The internal surface area of the gastro-intestinal tract has long been considered to be between 180 and 300 square meters. Scientists have used refined microscopic techniques that indicate a much ... full story -
In Lab Tests, the Antimicrobial Ingredient Triclosan Spurs Growth of Breast Cancer Cells
Apr. 23, 2014 — Some manufacturers are turning away from using triclosan as an antimicrobial ingredient in soaps, toothpastes and other products over health concerns. And now scientists are reporting new evidence ... full story -
How to Avoid Water Wars Between 'Fracking' Industry and Residents
Apr. 23, 2014 — The shale gas boom has transformed the energy landscape in the US, but in some drier locations, it could cause conflict among the energy industry, residents and agricultural interests over ... full story -
Physical Activity Keeps Hippocampus Healthy in People at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
Apr. 23, 2014 — Moderate physical activity may preserve the hippocampus -- the brain region responsible for memory and spatial orientation that is attacked first in Alzheimer's disease, a study of older adults ... full story -
High-Calorie, Low-Nutrient Foods in Kids' TV Programs
Apr. 23, 2014 — Fruits and vegetables are often displayed in the popular Swedish children’s TV show Bolibompa, but there are also plenty of high-sugar foods. A new study explores how food is portrayed in ... full story -
Toward Unraveling the Alzheimer's Mystery: New Step Points to Proteins
Apr. 23, 2014 — Getting to the bottom of Alzheimer's disease has been a rapidly evolving pursuit with many twists, turns and controversies. In the latest crook in the research road, scientists have found a new ... full story -
ADHD Drug May Help Preserve Self-Control Resources
Apr. 23, 2014 — Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, may prevent the depletion of self-control, according to research. Self-control can be difficult -- sticking with a diet or trying to focus attention on a ... full story -
New Discovery Helps Solve Mystery Source of African Lava
Apr. 23, 2014 — Floods of molten lava may sound like the stuff of apocalyptic theorists, but history is littered with evidence of such past events where vast lava outpourings originating deep in the Earth accompany ... full story -
How Australia's Outback Got One Million Feral Camels: Camels Culled on Large Scale
Apr. 23, 2014 — A new study has shed light on how an estimated one million-strong population of wild camels thriving in Australia's remote outback have become reviled as pests and culled on a large ... full story -
Political Ravens? Ravens Understand the Relationships Among Others
Apr. 23, 2014 — Cognitive biologists have revealed that ravens do understand and keep track of the rank relations between other ravens. Such an ability has been known only from primates. Like many social mammals, ... full story -
Picture Books Aren't Just Fun: Children Learn Sophisticated Animal Facts When Parent Read Them
Apr. 23, 2014 — Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard-type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study. ... full story -
Liquid Spacetime: What If Spacetime Were a Kind of Fluid?
Apr. 23, 2014 — What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical physicists working on quantum gravity by creating models attempting to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. ... full story -
Best Practices in Communication for Animal World
Apr. 22, 2014 — Effective communication is not just about the signaler, according to a new study. The receiver also needs to assess the signaler efficiently. For instance, one of the most effective strategies from ... full story -
Brain Circuits Involved in Emotion Discovered by Neuroscientists
Apr. 22, 2014 — A brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviors critical for survival have been discovered by neuroscientists. The team has identified a chain of neural connections which links central ... full story -
Cougars’ Diverse Diet Helped Them Survive the Mass Extinction That Wiped out the Saber-Tooth Cat, American Lion
Apr. 22, 2014 — Cougars may have survived the mass extinction that took place about 12,000 years ago because they were not particular about what they ate, unlike their more finicky cousins the saber-tooth cat and ... full story -
Effectiveness of Medications for Treating Epileptic Seizures in Children Examined
Apr. 22, 2014 — Although some studies have suggested that the drug lorazepam may be more effective or safer than the drug diazepam in treating a type of epileptic seizures among children, a randomized trial finds ... full story -
New Drugs Offer Hope for Migraine Prevention
Apr. 22, 2014 — Two new studies may offer hope for people with migraines. Both studies involve drugs that are aimed at preventing migraine attacks from occurring, rather than stopping the attacks once they have ... full story -
Risk of Pregnancy Greater With Newer Method of Female Sterilization
Apr. 22, 2014 — The risk of pregnancy among women using a newer method of planned sterilization called hysteroscopic sterilization is more than 10 times greater over a 10-year period than using the more commonly ... full story -
Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies a New Mammalian Clock Gene
Apr. 22, 2014 — Over 15 mammalian clock proteins have been identified, but researchers surmise there are more. Could big data approaches help find them? To accelerate clock-gene discovery, investigators used a ... full story -
Critical New Protein Complex Involved in Learning, Memory
Apr. 22, 2014 — A protein complex that plays a critical but previously unknown role in learning and memory formation has been identified by researchers. "This is a critical building block that regulates a ... full story
- Surface area of the digestive tract much smaller than previously thought
- In lab tests, the antimicrobial ingredient triclosan spurs growth of breast cancer cells
- How to avoid water wars between 'fracking' industry and residents
- Physical activity keeps hippocampus healthy in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease
- High-calorie, low-nutrient foods in kids' TV programs
- Toward unraveling the Alzheimer's mystery: New step points to proteins
- ADHD drug may help preserve self-control resources
- New discovery helps solve mystery source of African lava
- How Australia's Outback got one million feral camels: Camels culled on large scale
- Political ravens? Ravens understand the relationships among others
- Picture books aren't just fun: Children learn sophisticated animal facts when parent read them
- Liquid spacetime: What if spacetime were a kind of fluid?
- Best practices in communication for animal world
- Brain circuits involved in emotion discovered by neuroscientists
- Cougars’ diverse diet helped them survive the mass extinction that wiped out the saber-tooth cat, American lion
- Effectiveness of medications for treating epileptic seizures in children examined
- New drugs offer hope for migraine prevention
- Risk of pregnancy greater with newer method of female sterilization
- Bioinformatics profiling identifies a new mammalian clock gene
- Critical new protein complex involved in learning, memory
- Checking up on crude oil in the ground: Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'
- Mantis shrimp stronger than airplanes: Composite material inspired by shrimp stronger than standard used in airplane frames
- Neuroimaging Technique: Live from inside the cell in real-time
- How cells take out the trash
- For an immune cell, microgravity mimics aging
- First size-based chromatography technique for the study of livi
- Neurotics don't just avoid action: They dislike it, study finds
- Applying math to biology: Software identifies disease-causing mutations in undiagnosed illnesses
- Fat metabolism in animals altered to prevent most common type of heart disease
- Major advances in dye sensitized solar cells
- Unlocking secrets of new solar material
- Wildlife response to climate change is likely underestimated, experts warn
- Male health linked to testosterone exposure in womb, study finds
- Brain size matters when it comes to animal self-control
- Life stressors trigger neurological disorders, researchers find
- Speed-reading apps may impair reading comprehension by limiting ability to backtrack
- People pay more attention to upper half of field of vision, study shows
- New design for mobile phone masts could cut carbon emissions
- Researchers identify a new variant of Ebola virus in Guinea
- RNA shows potential as boiling-resistant anionic polymer material for nanoarchitectures
- International team sequences rainbow trout genome
- Quantum simulators developed to study inaccessible physical systems
- Vacuum ultraviolet lamp of the future created
- High-performance, low-cost ultracapacitors built with graphene and carbon nanotubes
- Commonly available blood-pressure medication prevents epilepsy after severe brain injury
- Two genes linked to inflammatory bowel disease
- iPad users explore data with their fingers: Kinetica converts tabular data into touch-friendly format
- Child's autism risk accelerates with mother's age over 30
- Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission
- Nanomaterial outsmarts ions: Novel types of electronic components made of graphene
- Like a hall of mirrors, nanostructures trap photons inside ultrathin solar cells
- Bariatric surgery health benefits: Is it bile acids at work?
- New way to enhance nerve growth following injury discovered
- First brain images of African infants enable research into cognitive effects of nutrition
- How are we different and what gave us the advantage over extinct types of humans like the Neanderthals?
- Tarantulas' personality determines whether they copulate with males or cannibalize them
- Red stars and big bulges: How black holes shape galaxies
- Solved: Mysteries of a nearby planetary system
- Sleep behavior disorder linked to brain disease
- Higher solar-cell efficiency achieved with zinc-oxide coating
- 'Upside-down planet' reveals new method for studying binary star systems
- Sleeping away infection: Researchers find link between sleep, immune function in fruitflies
- Queuing theory helps physicist understand protein recycling
- Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
- Earth Week: Bark beetles change Rocky Mountain stream flows, affect water quality
- Increased prevalence of celiac disease in children with irritable bowel syndrome
- First Eurasians left Africa up to 130,000 years ago
- LEDs get seal of approval: Safe for skin, experts say
- Plague in your family: Family tree of black death bacterium explored
- Fast, simple-to-use assay reveals 'family tree' of cancer metastases
- Krypton used to accurately date ancient Antarctic ice
- 'Dustman' protein helps kill cancer cells
- Mystery behind general anesthetic action becoming more clear
- Safer alternatives to nonsteroidal antinflamatory pain killers
- Progress made in developing nanoscale electronics: New research directs charges through single molecules
- Taking the pulse of mountain formation in the Andes
- Lack of breeding threatens blue-footed boobies' survival
- Physicists push new Parkinson's treatment toward clinical trials
- Regulating legal marijuana could be guided by lessons from alcohol, tobacco, study says
- Ginseng can treat, prevent influenza, RSV, researcher finds
- Mental illness not usually linked to crime, research finds
- Computer-assisted accelerator design
- Novel function of protein linked to Alzheimer's disease discovered
- Quantum turbulence: New key to unlocking the mysteries of physics?
- People selectively remember details of atrocities that absolve in-group members
- A protein required for integrity of induced pluripotent stem cells
- Birthplace of the domesticated chili pepper identified in Mexico
- More questions than answers as mystery of domestication deepens
- Proposal: Managing most troubling symptoms of dementia, lessen use of drugs
- New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect
- Why alcoholism saps muscle strength
- Exoplanets soon to gleam in the eye of NESSI
- Codeine often prescribed to children, despite available alternatives
- Low tolerance for pain? The reason may be in your genes
- Climate benefit of biofuels from corn residue: Researchers cast doubt
- Source of most cases of invasive bladder cancer identified
- Link between Down syndrome, leukemia uncovered
- Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property
- Computational method dramatically speeds up estimates of gene expression
- Study of gut microbes, antibiotics offers clues to improving immunity in premature babies
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