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Abnormalities found in ‘insight’ areas of the brain in anorexia
Insight may be impaired in people where connections between areas of the brain involved in conflict detection are abnormal. Credit: UIC
Abnormalities in brain regions involved...
Chimpanzees who travel are more frequent tool users
Chimpanzees who travel are more frequent tool users, according to new findings from the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Geneva, Switzerland, to...
Ancient rocks reveal how Earth recovered from mass extinction
Analysis of rocks unearthed in Oman that were formed in an ancient ocean around the time of Earth's greatest mass extinction have helped explain...
MIT scientists find weird quantum effects, even over hundreds of miles
MIT physicists have found that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in superposition, without individual identities, when traveling hundreds of miles, and not just...
Not Really Starless at Saturn
Saturn's main rings, along with its and moons, are much brighter than most stars. As a result, much shorter exposure times (10 milliseconds, in...
ALS research suggests stem cells be ‘aged’ to speed progress toward finding treatments
Cedars-Sinai scientists are seeking to build an improved stem-cell model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to accelerate progress toward a cure for the devastating...
2016 climate trends continue to break records
Chunks of sea ice, melt ponds and open water are all seen in this image captured at an altitude of 1,500 feet by the...
Eating healthy fats in place of carbs or saturated fats improves risk factors for...
Eating more unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, in place of either dietary carbohydrate or saturated fats lowers blood sugar levels and improves insulin resistance...
X marks the spot at the center of the Milky Way galaxy
Image of the Milky Way taken by the WISE space telescope. The circle is centred on the galaxy’s central region, while the inset shows...
How to increase the fat burned during exercise
When we exercise, our body’s oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A new study analyses the...
Climate research: How meltwater from the ice sheets disturbed the climate 10,000 years ago
The retreating calving front of the Bloomstandbreen glacier on Svalbard (Spitsbergen).Credit: © Alfred-Wegener-Institut/René Bürgi
Today, a negative correlation is observed in the amount of rainfall...
