Eating at ‘wrong time’ affects body weight, circadian rhythms
Besides affecting weight, scientists believe the timing of food consumption affects one's circadian rhythms and may be the route by which dietary habits impact...
Brain’s iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk
New findings will better help map out the brain's speech regions.
Credit: Adeen Flinker
For 150 years, the iconic Broca's area of the brain has been...
‘Doctor’ or ‘darling’ — Subtle differences of speech: Brain signals tell who someone is...
A recording site (grey dot) in a brain region responsible for social interaction showed clear differences in neural activity when the subject was talking...
Record-breaking marine heatwave powered by climate change cooks Tasmania’s fisheries
At its peak intensity, waters off Tasmania were 2.9°C above expected summertime temperatures. (Stock image)
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Climate change was almost certainly...
Want to be seen as a leader? Get some muscle
Study participants in a series of experiments conducted by Cameron Anderson, a professor of management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Aaron...
When sizing up potential friends and mates, the eyes of men and women move...
Beauty may not simply be in the eye of the beholder, but in his or her relational goals, suggests new research.
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To swallow food, some sharks shrug their shoulders
Shark model with the mouth on the left and shoulder bones to the right. With a bamboo shark, after food is swallowed the bones...
Environmental pollution exposure during pregnancy increases asthma risk for three generations
Los Angeles skyline, showing air pollution. (Stock image)
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Exposure to environmental pollutants during pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma for...
Language development starts in the womb
Kathleen Gustafson, a research associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Hoglund Brain Imaging Center (right), with...
Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries
Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.
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At the cellular level, a child’s loss of a father is associated with increased...
Father loss is clearly associated with cellular function as estimated by telomere length: any father loss between birth and 9 years of age leads...
