2,657 results
- Humans
Origins of alcohol consumption traced to ape ancestor
Eating fermented fruit off the ground may have paved way for ability to digest ethanol.
- Health & Medicine
Old drug, new tricks
Metformin, cheap and widely used for diabetes, takes a swipe at cancer.
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New species of the year
More creatures, less Latin used to describe them.
- Humans
Of Mice and Man
The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.
- Earth
Blood levels of BPA become source of controversy
New data question whether human blood measurements of BPA reflect sample contamination or just exaggerated exposures.
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2012 Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting
Highlights from the annual meeting, held February 23 – 26 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Health & Medicine
Mapping the brain’s superhighways
New scans created using diffusion MRI technique reveal an order to information flow in the mind.
- Animals
Furry Friends Forever
Humans aren’t the only animals who benefit from having someone to count on.
- Health & Medicine
Why emotions are attention-getters
Strong, direct connections between two key brain centers help explain how feelings can usurp focus.
- Life
Ebola may go airborne
Infected pigs can transmit virus to primates without contact, a new study finds.
- Life
Pigeons rival primates in number task
Trained on one-two-three, the birds can apply the rule of numerical order to such lofty figures as five and nine.
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Evolving E. coli
25-year experiment sees real-time natural selection.
