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National Zoo Welcomes Whooping Crane

After an 88-year-long hiatus North America's tallest bird, the statuesque whooping crane (Grus americana), is once again on exhibit at the Bird House at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park. An 11-yea ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

European settlers not the first to alter american landscape

One of the great American myths claims that before Europeans colonists settled in North America, Native Americans existed in total harmony with nature, surviving on the renewable bounty that the continent's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Study finds celiac patients can eat hydrolyzed wheat flour

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amorous slug, orange snake among finds on Borneo

A lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

How the brain senses fatty food

As you gorge on food this holiday season, you might not want to think about the fat content of all the goodies you've indulged in. Nevertheless, your brain will be keeping tabs directly, suggests a report in the November ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers enlist a new recruit in battle of the bulge

In the battle against obesity, Yale University researchers may have discovered a new weapon — a naturally occurring molecule secreted by the gut that makes rats and mice less hungry after fatty meals. The findings are published ...

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created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Molecule shuts down food intake and turns on 'siesta mode'

Researchers have identified a molecule that tells your brain your stomach is full – signaling that it's time to say no to a second piece of pumpkin pie and push back from the Thanksgiving table.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists discover new species of distinctive cloud-forest rodent

A strikingly unusual animal was recently discovered in the cloud-forests of Peru. The large rodent is about the size of a squirrel and looks a bit like one, except its closest relatives are spiny rats.

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created Jan 24, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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