Behavior

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Top Stories | February 12

Junk food in schools gets weighty reprieve
Disputed data suggest that non-nutritious eats sold on-site don’t fatten kids.
Learning to walk on err
Flub-inducing treadmill tasks aid motor learning, with rehab implications.
Teen daters pal up to the bottle
Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.
Belly bacteria boss the brain
One type of gut microbe sends antianxiety messages through the vagus nerve, changing the behavior of mice.
Recession-sensitive parenting
Economic downturn led to temporarily more severe parenting tactics among genetically predisposed mothers.

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Recession-sensitive parenting

Economic downturn led to temporarily more severe parenting tactics among genetically predisposed mothers.

The lion eats tonight ...

Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.

Science & the Public: Simple-sugar effects aren’t necessarily simple, animal study suggests

New mouse data suggest that even among seemingly identical sugars, how they are delivered can exert subtle metabolic differences with long-term impacts on vitality -- and lifespan.

Science & the Public: When meal times no longer focus on food

There’s little doubt that humanity has been tipping the scales at increasingly higher weights and rates. A study now lends support to the idea that meal-time distractions can mask the cues that we really have eaten quite enough. Moreover, it finds, the caloric fallout of not paying attention to what we’re eating doesn’t necessarily end when a meal is over.

Chimps wear personalities on their mugs

Humans can assess the dominance of their close evolutionary relatives by glancing at the apes’ expressionless faces.

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Science & the Public Faulty comparisons
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On the Scene Vying for the title of World's Fastest Cell
By Science News Staff Dec 5th 2011

Deleted Scenes Moony shot
By Science News Staff Oct 31st 2011

Columns:

Comment Mind the gap: Genetic knowledge and medical power
By James P. Evans Apr 22nd 2011

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