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Super Bowl 2020: All the space-themed commercials
Live Science - 3 Feb 2020 01:52
This year's Super Bowl commercials promise to be out of this world.
Clues to genetic origins of schizophrenia revealed
Neuroscience News - 3 Feb 2020 00:33
A study of the Xhosa, an ancestral African population, sheds light on the genetic origins of schizophrenia.
Keto diet works best in small doses
Neuroscience News - 3 Feb 2020 00:17
In the short term, a ketogenic diet can help improve health as well as assist in weight loss. However, the negative effects of the keto diet start to appear after one week. Mice who were fed a ketogenic-style diet for mo...
High-tempo music may make exercise easier and more beneficial
Neuroscience News - 2 Feb 2020 23:20
High-tempo music may increase the benefits of exercise and reduce perceived effort, particularly if listened to during endurance training.
Engineering Bugs, Resurrecting Species: The Wild World of Synthetic Biology for Conservation
Singularity Hub - 2 Feb 2020 19:00
Imagine a world where a mosquito bite is just an itchy annoyance. No malaria. No dengue fever. Last month, scientists announced they had taken one more step toward that vision. A paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens descr...
A lazy cave salamander didn't move from the same spot for 7 years
New Scientist - 2 Feb 2020 15:00
Olm are salamanders that spend all their lives in pitch-black caves, and it turns out they don't move very much - sometimes lurking in the same spot for years