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Nutrition has benefits for brain network organization
An assortment of foods containing omega 3 healthy fats acids.
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Nutrition has been linked to cognitive performance, but researchers have not...
Eat fat, live longer?
Dr. Jon Ramsey with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine holds a mouse. His study found that a high fat diet makes mice...
Biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies
Fruit flies' mitochondria (in green) at 10 days (top left), 28 days (top right) and 37 days old (both bottom images). At bottom right,...
Nanoparticles target and kill cancer stem cells that drive tumor growth
After two hours, special nanoparticles accumulated in cancer cells (red and yellow) in mice and destroyed most of the tumor within a day (right).
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Surprising link between blood sugar, brain cancer found
Glioma is one of the most common types of cancerous tumors originating in the brain.
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New research further illuminates the surprising...
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver
Using data from the Rotterdam Study researchers determined that frequent coffee and herbal tea consumption were inversely related with liver stiffness but not steatosis...
High tunability of 2-D material
From left: Kaiyuan Yao, Nick Borys, and P. James Schuck, seen here at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, measured a property in a 2-D material...
Stretchable biofuel cells extract energy from sweat to power wearable devices
The biofuel cell can stretch and flex, conforming to the human body.
Credit: University of California San Diego
A team of engineers has developed stretchable fuel...
Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch
Composite image of the X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 surrounded by the supernova remnant. The false-color image combines X-ray (blue) and optical data (oxygen: green,...
Mobile women were key to cultural exchange in Stone Age and Bronze Age Europe
4,000 years ago, European women traveled far from their home villages to start their families, bringing with them new cultural objects and ideas.
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Newly-discovered semiconductor dynamics may help improve energy efficiency
The atomic structure of a tiny semiconductor is X-rayed.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Illinois at Chicago
Researchers examining the flow of electricity through semiconductors...
