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Should we play hide-and-go-seek with our children's vegetables?

Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior…

Life & Chemistry

Key Planarian Genes Unveiled: Insights into Stem Cell Biology

Three of the genes are particularly intriguing because they code for proteins similar to those known to regulate mammalian embryonic stem cells. Such genetic…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Pain Linked to Race and Neighborhood Status

Living in a poor neighborhood was linked with worse chronic pain for young adults, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health System, but young…

Health & Medicine

German Students Prefer Home Care, Study Reveals Insights

A study by the department of Health Services Research shows that the opposite is happening: 97% of the surveyed German student population at Maastricht…

Life & Chemistry

Supercharged FAK Protein Lowers Heart Attack Damage in Mice

The study, in which mice were bred to make a supercharged version of the protein focal adhesion kinase, or FAK, appeared March 1 in the online edition of the…

Environmental Conservation

Mediterranean Overfishing: Impact on Marine Ecosystems

Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems…

Health & Medicine

Heart Disease Mechanism Uncovered in Diabetics by Cardiologists

The new research, available online and published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Captures Tornadic Weather Movement in Real-Time

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-13, captures visible and infrared images of weather over the eastern U.S. every 15 minutes. NOAA…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Memory: Training Techniques for Mild Cognitive Impairment

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been investigating memory-building strategies for people…

Health & Medicine

Prenatal Strategy Cuts Childhood Lead Poisoning Risk

According to a study just published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology this measure prevented childhood lead poisoning and reduced the…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding How Our Body Senses Hot Temperatures

The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the…

Health & Medicine

New Fiber Tracking Unveils Brain Injury Damage Insights

In the report, the researchers describe the case of a 32-year-old man who wasn't wearing a helmet when his all-terrain vehicle crashed. Initially, his CT scans…

Information Technology

ORNL Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition

Acceptance testing for the upgrade was completed earlier this month. The testing suite included leading scientific applications focused on molecular dynamics,…

Life & Chemistry

New Hybrid “NOSH Aspirin” as Possible Anti-Cancer Drug

Their report on the new NOSH-aspirin, so named because it releases nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), appears in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry…

Environmental Conservation

Unlocking the Secrets of Sea Turtle Migration

“We’re starting to realize that developmental migrations — ones that sea turtles make before they mature — are even more amazing,” says Dr. Peter Meylan,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Floor of Oldest Forest Discovered in Schoharie County

“It was like discovering the botanical equivalent of dinosaur footprints,” said Dr. William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton…

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