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Lunch at a restaurant with a friend could lessen the brain’s aptitude for detailed tasks back at work, a new study suggests. If an error-free afternoon is the goal, perhaps workers should consider hastily consuming calories alone at their desks. 07.31.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Fast ascent of molten rock could foretell future eruptions 07.31.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Enceladus' chilly jets ebb and flow in time with the planet’s tug 07.31.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF In India, narrow strips of wild land connect small groups of cats 07.30.13 | more >>
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A rise in oxygen more than half a billion years ago paved the way for the origin of the first carnivores. The meat eaters in turn triggered the Big Bang of animal evolution, researchers argue. 07.29.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Girl, who was sacrificed, may have been sedated by alcohol, coca leaves 07.29.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF In 12-year lab study, moist soil samples released less greenhouse gas as they warmed 07.29.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Probe captures planet from 1.4 billion kilometers away 07.25.13 | more >>
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A full moon deprives people of sleep even when they are shielded from moonlight in a windowless lab, a new study suggests. 07.25.13 | more >>
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A beefed-up chunk of intestines might do the heavy lifting of gastric bypass surgery.
The surgery’s rapid diabetes-improving effects appear to stem from growth of new intestinal tissue. After having an operation to remodel the gut, obese rats build the new tissue by drawing sugar from the blood, researchers report in the July 26 Science. This energy drain could explain how the most popular type of gastric bypass lowers diabetic patients’ sugar levels surprisingly swiftly, ... 07.25.13 | more >>
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Just a tiny fraction of the brain’s neurons firing at the wrong time can change a real memory into a figment of the imagination. Scientists have come to that conclusion after implanting false memories into the brains of mice. 07.25.13 | more >>
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VIEW THE VIDEO When a peacock fans out the iridescent splendor of his train, more than half the time the peahen he’s displaying for isn’t even looking at him. That’s the finding of the first eye-tracking study of birds. 07.24.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Long difficult to estimate, date of space rocks' formation emerges with new technique 07.24.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF First proof of character shift documented at Japanese detector 07.23.13 | more >>
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The most predictable mammalian chromosome has a wild side. The X chromosome — long thought to be pretty much the same across mammals — actually harbors a collection of naughty genes that differ between species and switch on in the testicles. 07.23.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF The marine mammals respond only to their own handles 07.22.13 | more >>
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VIEW THE VIDEO Dead stars make good alchemists.
Images snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that gold may have been generated by a violent neutron star collision that also yielded lead, platinum, uranium and other heavy elements. 07.22.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Warming may have caused huge increase in sea level 07.22.13 | more >>
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NEWS IN BRIEF Transplanted cells can function in rodents' eyes 07.22.13 | more >>
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The next time you pop a pill, know that the microbes in your gut might get to it before you do. Some people harbor a strain of bacteria that inactivates a common cardiac drug, a finding that could explain why people have different reactions to some medications. 07.19.13 | more >>
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An ill-fated gas cloud has begun a close encounter with the monstrous black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a fresh set of observations reveals. Astronomers don’t expect the cloud to emerge intact, resulting in an unprecedented view of our galaxy’s largest black hole feasting on its prey. 07.19.13 | more >>







