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Women who constantly binge on junk food while pregnant might pass their penchant for sweet and fatty food on to their children, a new study suggests
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Volker Steger photographs Nobel laureates posing with sketches of their breakthrough findings
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An artist-scientist duo shares nearly 100 images of modern art with a ghastly twist—they're all close-ups of human diseases and other ailments
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Although the strange sensation's cause remains unknown, scientists are searching for ways to induce that nagging feeling of familiarity
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Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes
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Reading, writing and other mental exercises, if habitual from an early age, can slow down the age-related decline in mental capacity
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By mixing different types of stem cells in petri dishes, researchers created liver "buds" that effectively filtered blood when implanted in mice
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Staph microbes with resistance to common treatments are much more common in industrial farms than antibiotic-free operations
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Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
A new type of cell could lead to dramatic cures—and avoid ethical controversy
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Pinpointing exactly why we yawn is a tough task, but the latest research suggests that our sleepy sighs help to regulate the temperature of our brains
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Our shoulder flexibility allows us to hurl things at high speeds compared to other primates—a trait we likely evolved for hunting two million years ago
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Research is showing how much the bonds between dogs and their owners have become like a parent-child relationship
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Like pine beetles sickening a forest as they spread, cancer can be seen as a disruption in the balance of a complex microenvironment in the human body
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Recent research suggests that the brain rebuilds a memory every time it is recalled. And that creates a window of opportunity for changing it
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Mix 3-D printers and biomimicry and what do you get? Products that are as strong, resilient, versatile--and biodegradable--as most things in nature
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The presence of whipworm and roundworm eggs suggest that crusaders were especially predisposed to death by malnutrition
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Scientists keep finding reasons why fathers matter. They also think it's not a bad idea for dads to ask their kids, "How am I doing?"
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Genetic information gathered from centuries-old exhumed bones reveals that the infection hasn't changed much in the past 1,000 years
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