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Fast food may expose consumers to harmful chemicals called phthalates
People who reported consuming more fast food in a national survey were exposed to higher levels of potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates, according...
Analysis of nearly 600,000 genomes for resilience project
As part of a global collaboration, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Sage Bionetworks conducted the largest genome study...
Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk
A research team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has unearthed more evidence that casts...
Fetal and newborn dolphin deaths linked to Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Researchers investigated the deaths of perinatal dolphins, like this one, found in regions affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Credit: Photo courtesy Louisiana...
How the brain produces consciousness in ‘time slices’
EPFL scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises...
The pyrophilic primate
Anthropogenic burning in Hadza country.Credit: James F. O'Connell
Fire, a tool broadly used for cooking, constructing, hunting and even communicating, was arguably one of the...
AstraZeneca/Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s Disease Drug in Phase III
AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly and Company announced that AMARANTH, a phase II/III study of AZD3293, an oral beta secretase cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor currently...
Wealth of unsuspected new microbes expands tree of life
This is a new and expanded view of the tree of life, with clusters of bacteria (left), uncultivable bacteria called 'candidate phyla radiation' (center,...
Sexually transmitted infections, peer pressure may have turned humans into monogamists
Prehistoric humans may have developed social norms that favour monogamy and punish polygamy thanks to the presence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and peer...
Alaska could lose massive icefield by 2200
The Mendenhall Towers, upper left, are prominent peaks visible from the Mendenhall Glacier visitor area near Juneau. This photo was taken from a point...
Scientists discover how the brain repurposes itself to learn scientific concepts
New research from Carnegie Mellon University shows for the first time how learning physics concepts is accomplished by repurposing neural structures that were originally...
