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Food for thought -- regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting

If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead ...

Biology /

created Oct 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Form of Crohn's disease traced to disabled gut cells

Scientists report online this week in Nature that they have linked the health of specialized gut immune cells to a gene associated with Crohn's disease, an often debilitating and increasingly prevalent inflammatory bowel ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada

The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 6

Children aware of white male monopoly on White House

Challenging the idea that children live in a color or gender blind world, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals most elementary-school-age children are aware there has been no female, African-American, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 05, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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