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Lift Weights to Lower Blood Sugar? White Muscle Helps Keep Blood Glucose Levels Under Control
April 7, 2013 — Researchers have challenged a long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is ... > full story -
Fetal Exposure to Excessive Stress Hormones in the Womb Linked to Adult Mood Disorders
April 7, 2013 — Exposure of the developing fetus to excessive levels of stress hormones in the womb can cause mood disorders in later life and now, for the first time, researchers have found a mechanism that may ... > full story -
Dead Star Warps Light of Companion Red Star, Astronomers Say
April 5, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star. The findings are among the first detections of this effect -- a result predicted by Einstein's theory ... > full story -
Remote Coral Reefs Can Be Tougher Than They Look: Western Australia’s Scott Reef Has Recovered from Mass Bleaching
April 5, 2013 — Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby undisturbed neighbors, a long-term study by marine biologists has shown. Scott Reef, a remote coral ... > full story -
Discovery in Neuroscience Could Help Re-Wire Appetite Control
April 5, 2013 — Researchers have made a discovery in neuroscience that could offer a long-lasting solution to eating disorders such as obesity. It was previously thought that the nerve cells in the brain associated ... > full story -
How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
April 5, 2013 — Scientists may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on ... > full story -
Scientists to Jupiter's Moon Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place
April 4, 2013 — Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. However, concentrations of volcanic ... > full story -
Listening to the Big Bang -- In High Fidelity
April 4, 2013 — Physicist have updated the decade-old re-creation of the sound of the Big Bang that started the ... > full story -
An Ancient Biosonar Sheds New Light on the Evolution of Echolocation in Toothed Whales
April 4, 2013 — Some 30 million years ago, Ganges river dolphins diverged from other toothed whales, making them one of the oldest species of aquatic mammals that use echolocation, or biosonar, to navigate and find ... > full story -
New Measurement of Crocodilian Nerves Could Help Scientists Understand Ancient Animals
April 4, 2013 — A new study has measured the nerves responsible for the super-sensitive skin on a crocodile's face, which will help biologists understand how today's animals, as well as dinosaurs and crocodiles that ... > full story
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