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No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
Image Credit: © Brittany Randolph / Flickr
Researchers at King's College London have found no significant link between eating the evening meal after 8pm and...
Loss of Y chromosome is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease: Why do men...
Men with blood cells that do not carry the Y chromosome are at higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and this is...
How our emotions affect store prices
Let's say you've just found a nice jacket in a store and are deciding whether to buy it. It's a little pricey, so should...
New research confirms continued, unabated and large-scale amphibian declines
These are American bullfrogs at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Alan Cressler, USGS
New U.S. Geological Survey-led research suggests that even though...
Knowledge of positive cologuard test improves colonoscopy performance
An endoscopist's knowledge of a positive Cologuard test improves colonoscopy performance, according to a poster presentation at last week's Digestive Disease Week conference.
Cologuard is...
Why children confuse simple words
"Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction," observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although "it has been claimed children are very...
Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen
Composite image of the galaxy cluster from three different filters on the Hubble Space Telescope. The wave charts (insets at left) show spectra of...
Ancient Chinese pottery reveals 5,000-yr-old beer brew
Funnel for beer making from Mijiaya. Credit: Jiajing Wang.
Residue on pottery unearthed at an archeological site in northern China has revealed traces of a...
A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes
A new study uses aquatic leaf waxes to study the history of precipitation at this lake in western Greenland.
Credit: Jason Briner
The history of Greenland's...
In changing oceans, cephalopods are booming
Cuttlefish (stock image). Credit: © Kačka a Ondra / Flickr
Humans have changed the world's oceans in ways that have been devastating to many marine...
‘Fresh’ lunar craters discovered
Using data from the LAMP instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters --...
