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Third of pregnant women iron deficient, risk thyroid-related pregnancy complications
A third of pregnant women have iron deficiency, putting them at increased risk of having a thyroid disorder and suffering complications such as miscarriages...
Atmospheric chemistry on paper
Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula Kevin Heng of the University of Bern, Switzerland, gets his results thousands of...
When it comes to empathy, don’t always trust your gut
Is empathy the result of gut intuition or careful reasoning? Research published by the American Psychological Association suggests that, contrary to popular belief, the...
Scientists review methods to prevent bites, suppress ticks that transmit Lyme disease
Dr. Lars Eisen and Marc Dolan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reviewed decades of scientific literature on the effectiveness...
There’s a funny atmosphere on Neptune…
It has been the farthest planet from the Sun since Pluto's 'relegation', but despite Neptune's remoteness in our solar system, it still holds plenty...
Designing climate-friendly concrete, from the nanoscale up
Left to right: Roland Pellenq of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Katerina Ioannidou of the MIT Energy Initiative, and Franz-Josef Ulm...
Designer protein gives new hope to scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease
A new protein which will help scientists to understand why nerve cells die in people with Alzheimer's disease has been designed in a University...
An engineered protein can disrupt tumor-promoting ‘messages’ in human cells
This is a schematic of the RNA-binding region of Rbfox2, shown in grey, attached to part of its natural RNA target, depicted in orange,...
Why Americans waste so much food
Even though American consumers throw away about 80 billion pounds of food a year, only about half are aware that food waste is a...
Historical records miss a fifth of global warming: NASA
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by...
Some bacteria have lived in the human gut since before we were human
An artist's rendition of bacteria that live in the gut of people and their closest relatives. A new study finds that these microbes have...
