Earth/Environment
Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news
By Science News
Burrow down
Trilobites, those cute little fossil critters, probably buried themselves under the muddy seafloor while molting to elude predators. Argentinean researchers have unearthed deformed fossils that show for the first time that trilobites must have molted in soft sediment, the team reports in an upcoming issue of
Geology
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Alexandra Witze
Breakfast and lead risks in kids
Preschoolers who ate breakfast at least five days a week had roughly 10 percent lower blood levels of lead — a heavy metal linked to lower IQ — than did kids who don’t receive breakfast, U.S. and Chinese researchers report April 1 in