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The strange effects of thinking healthy food is costlier
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Price of food even influences what health issues we worry about
Consumers believe healthy food must be more expensive than cheap eats and...
Chemists identify genetic mutation that opens door in combatting age-related diseases
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Researchers at the University of Surrey, in collaboration with the Universities of Reading and Cologne, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, have discovered...
New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean’s hardiest organisms
MIT oceanographers have found that some small marine organisms — mostly bacteria — have a surprisingly low limit to the amount of oxygen they...
Further evidence found for causal links between cannabis and schizophrenia
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People who have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia are more likely to try cannabis, according to new research, which also found...
Depressed children respond differently to rewards than other kids
A child wearing a device that measures electrical activity in the brain chooses between doors on a computer screen. Choosing one door wins points...
Sugar and sweeteners – how do they affect our appetite?
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Study compares how the human body reacts to natural and artificial non-nutritive sweeteners and sugar
What should healthy young men who want...
‘Western’ Maternal Diet Appears to Raise Obesity Risk in Offspring
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Diet composition around the time of pregnancy may influence whether offspring become obese, according to a new study using animal models at...
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
The researchers’ neural network was fed video from 26 terabytes of video data downloaded from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Researchers found the network can...
What do Netflix, Google and planetary systems have in common?
Dan Tamayo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Planetary Science at U of T Scarborough.Credit: Photo by Ken Jones
Same class of algorithms...
Erasing the Line between Imaging and Analyzing
Christine Hendon’s laboratory has developed automated algorithms to analyze fiber organization within various organ structures, including the heart and cervix (shown).Credit: Christine Hendon/Columbia Engineering
As...
Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built
Salto, for saltatorial locomotion on terrain obstacles, is shown.Credit: Stephen McNally
Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the...
