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Financial traders with relatively long ring fingers bring home the dough

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Researchers find oldest example of feathers used for display

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Human hunting alters organisms’ size and breeding schedule three times faster than natural forces

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Production of major food crops has become markedly more efficient over the past 20 years, but challenges remain

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Scientists have examined the smallest features scorpion lungs. Tiny morphological features like the sculpting of the hair-like outgrowths on lamellae — structures that fold like the leaves of a book and give the scorpion respiratory system its name, the book lung — gives insight into the evolutionary relationships among scorpions.

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Scientists have found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders.

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An international team of researchers has carried out the first long-term study into the demographic dynamics of naturally-occurring and artificially-introduced plants of the same species. By using simultaneous monitoring, the scientists have identified biological and demographic features of the plants that could help to optimize conservation strategies.

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Testing patient’s blood for two proteins or biomarkers that occur when inflammation is present could help doctors identify which patients are more likely to have a stroke, according to a new article in the journal Stroke.

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Researchers have uncovered why some dietary fats, specifically long-chain fats, such as oleic acid (found in olive oil), are more prone to induce inflammation. Long-chain fats, it turns out, promote increased intestinal absorption of pro-inflammatory bacterial molecules called lipopolysaccharides.

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School-age children may develop eating habits and leisure-time patterns that may not meet current recommendations and contribute to childhood obesity. In a study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers report that parents perceived that their pre-school children had relatively good eating habits and physical activity levels, but that parents of school-aged children [...]

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