World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 2022
Current trends predict more obese than underweight 5 to 19 year olds by 2022.
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The number of obese children and adolescents...
3-D quantum gas atomic clock offers new dimensions in measurement
JILA's three-dimensional (3-D) quantum gas atomic clock consists of a grid of light formed by three pairs of laser beams. Multiple lasers of various...
The female brain reacts more strongly to prosocial behavior than the male brain, study...
Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men.
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Behavioral experiments have shown that women...
Rampant consumption of hippo teeth
This is an image of hippo teeth products for sale in an ivory shop in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
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Global wildlife trade is...
Evolutionary crop research: Ego-plants give lower yield
The researchers planted out different wheat plants in the test field in China.
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Survival of the fittest is a fundamental concept in Darwin's...
Diversity of large animals plays an important role in carbon cycle
This is a white-lipped peccary, which is likely a key mammal in the carbon dynamics of tropical forest soils. It may influence the carbon...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized...
Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
Earth (stock image).
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Two of Earth's five mass extinction events -- times when more than half of the world's species died...
Humpback whale blow microbiome described
A humpback whale feeds in waters off Vancouver. Image taken from an unmanned hexacopter, with a research license issued by Fisheries and Oceans Canada...
Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them
Visual depiction of one- and two-line tasks that participants were asked to complete and that was key to the paper's findings.
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How fever in early pregnancy causes heart, facial birth defects
Some defects could be prevented with a fever reducer, research in animals suggests.
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Researchers have known for decades that fevers...
