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Racial homogeneity in early childhood may affect brain

Tue, 2013-08-13 12:22
Kids who lived in orphanages have difficulty interpreting emotions on faces with foreign features
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News in Brief: Mediterranean diet may offset genetic risk for stroke

Mon, 2013-08-12 14:43
Compared to a low-fat diet, eating fish and olive oil improved health
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Ratio for a good life exposed as 'nonsense'

Mon, 2013-08-12 14:19
Highly touted measure of emotional health criticized as math disaster
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Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’

Mon, 2013-08-12 14:19
Highly touted measure of emotional health criticized as math disaster
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DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas

Mon, 2013-08-12 11:22
Migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World
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News in Brief: Envisioning a fly brain

Mon, 2013-08-12 10:04
Map of fruit fly brain shows how the insect detects motion
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News in Brief: Online 'likes' multiply themselves

Fri, 2013-08-09 07:30
Social media users swayed by previous ratings
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News in Brief: Camels implicated as possible hosts of MERS virus

Thu, 2013-08-08 15:09
Antibodies to mysterious pathogen found in animals in Oman, Canary Islands
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Emissions could fuel global warming for millennia

Thu, 2013-08-08 12:41
Climate simulation projects effects of greenhouse gases farther into the future than ever before
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Hybrid race car of transistors debuts

Thu, 2013-08-08 11:20
Fast device requires very little energy
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Vaccine protects against malaria in early test

Thu, 2013-08-08 10:25
Shots enable people to fend off infection
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News in Brief: High blood glucose levels linked to dementia

Wed, 2013-08-07 13:16
Elderly people with elevated readings more likely to develop condition
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News in Brief: Noise may disrupt a bat’s dinner

Wed, 2013-08-07 11:56
Mechanical cacophony can drown out the whispers of moving insect prey
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Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains

Wed, 2013-08-07 11:39
When pregnant rodents consumed the stimulant, offspring had altered neurons, faulty memory
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HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature

Wed, 2013-08-07 10:26
Genetic sequence published along with agreement to protect family’s privacy
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Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work

Wed, 2013-08-07 09:33
Having made H5N1 transmissible, scientists intend to do the same with H7N9
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Climate change may bring dramatic behavior shifts

Wed, 2013-08-07 08:38
Shifting temperatures and rainfall expected to alter animal lifestyles
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FOR KIDS: Nature resets body’s clock

Tue, 2013-08-06 15:48
After a week in the wild, people went to bed — and got up — earlier
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News in Brief: One sleepless night weakens resolve in the face of doughnuts

Tue, 2013-08-06 08:57
Sleep loss changes brain activity, food preferences
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News in Brief: Space-mapping neurons found in human brain

Mon, 2013-08-05 11:44
Grid cells may orient people in Euclidean space
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