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Exercise Helps Stave Off Cognitive Decline
In a study published in the journal Neurology of almost 700 people born in 1936, researchers found physically active...
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How Fear Can Skew Spatial Perception
Are you overcome by ophidiophobia when you come across a snake in the wild? As it turns out, the...
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Genes and Immune System Shaped By Childhood Poverty, Stress
A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress...
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Creativity Closely Entwined With Mental Illness
Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than...
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Stem Cell Opponents File Appeal With U.S. Supreme Court
It’s been 3 years since the legality of federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESC) was...
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Singing Mice Show Signs of Learning
Like songbirds and humans, male mice have brain circuits and behaviors they may use to learn some of their...
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U.S. Scientists Win Chemistry Nobel
Two U.S. scientists shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for learning how cells respond to the world around them,...
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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Stem-Cell Work
John B. Gurdon of the U.K. and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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Dioxin Exposure Has Harmful Effects Across Generations
Washington State University researchers have found that the great-grandchildren of pregnant rats exposed to low doses of dioxin develop...