Naila Moreira

All Stories by Naila Moreira

  1. Health & Medicine

    Soft Drinks as Top Calorie Culprit

    Soft drinks have overtaken white bread as the main source of calories in the U.S. diet, contributing to an increasing rate of obesity in the country.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Back to Genetics: DNA variant may code for lumbar pain

    An inheritable gene variation may increase susceptibility to lumbar-disk disease.

  3. Earth

    Last Gasp: Toxic gas could explain great extinction

    Sudden venting of hydrogen sulfide from the deep sea could have caused the largest extinction in Earth's history by poisoning land animals and destroying atmospheric ozone that protects Earth from ultraviolet light.

  4. Ecosystems

    Pesticide makes bees bumble

    The pesticide spinosad, previously thought safe for bees, may damage their ability to forage for nectar.