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Secret to a longer, healthier life: Eating less?
Researchers worldwide are pursuing various ideas [to enhance the length and quality of our lives], but for Julie Mattison from ...
Social media, pornography or work: What’s to blame for our decrease in sex?
We live in one of the most sexually liberated times of human history. Access to new technologies over the past ...
Do we know enough about genetics for personalized DNA tests to improve our health, fitness?
The latest health and fitness trend involves taking a DNA test to find out more about how our bodies respond ...
Does ‘G’ mark the spot? Science struggles to explain the female orgasm
Why are orgasms so intensely pleasurable? How come women can experience multiple orgasms? And does the fabled G-spot even exist? ...
Neonicotinoid insecticide may reduce wild bumblebee queens’ egg development, lab study finds
Use of a common pesticide in spring could have an impact on wild bumblebees by interfering with their life cycle, ...
Read the tea leaves: Decoded plant genome unlocks flavor secrets for future breeding
A team in China has decoded the genetic building blocks of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, whose leaves are used ...
Dow, DuPont merger clears hurdle with approval by European Union
The European Commission has given the go-ahead to the merger of US chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont. The deal ...
Royal disagreement: UK’s Princess Anne contradicts brother Charles, says ‘we have to accept’ GM crops
Princess Anne has said genetically-modified crops have important benefits for providing food and she would be open to growing them ...
Secrets to male infertility may lie in how sperm propel themselves to reach female egg
Researchers from the UK and Japan found that the head and tail movements of sperm made patterns similar to the ...
Life on Earth’s roof: Ancient interspecies mating with Denisovans helps Tibetans thrive at high altitudes
[A]fter looking more closely at the EPAS1 gene from the Tibetan genomes, [Rasmus Nielsen from University of California in Berkeley] ...
Sickle cell gene therapy offers hope to afflicted families in Africa, where proper care is sparse
[Editor's note: This article is an interview with Sia Evelyn Nyandemo who runs a campaign group to support sickle cell ...
Producing ‘super foods’: Unlocking quinoa genome opens door to new breeding techniques
Scientists have successfully decoded the genome of quinoa, one of the world's most nutritious but underutilised crops. ... [P]rices for ...
Podcast: British scientist defends field trials of high-yield GMO wheat
[Editor's note: Listen to the full interview here.] Genetically modified crops may be in regular use by farmers in the United ...
Earliest known ancestor of humans: 540-million-year-old fossil unearthed
Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of humans - along with a vast range of other species. They say ...
‘Super yield’ GMO wheat gets green light for field trials in UK over critics’ objections
The GM wheat has been engineered to use sunlight more efficiently and has boosted greenhouse yields by up to 40%. Researchers ...
Human-pig embryos could offer more for us than their organs
Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists ...
Smartphone microscope could analyze DNA in the field
Scientists have built a DNA-analyzing smartphone attachment that is a fraction of the cost of lab-based kit. ... They say ...
Birth language is retained, even if we never learned to speak it
Babies build knowledge about the language they hear even in the first few months of life, research shows. If you ...
One tiny DNA mutation may have paved path for humans to evolve big brains
Humans may in part owe their big brains to a DNA "typo" in their genetic code, research suggests. ... [In ...
DNA changes linked to farming revolution spurred bonding of dogs with humans
Our canine companions developed the ability to digest starchy foods during the farming revolution thousands of years ago, according to ...
World Food Prize awarded to scientists who developed biofortified sweet potato
Four scientists have been awarded the 2016 World Food Prize for enriching sweet potatoes, which resulted in health benefits for ...
Growing hybrid human-chimp brains to understand intellectual differences and disease
In her own small corner of this research utopia at the human brain laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Madeleine ...
Teenage brain wired to learn from experiences
Teenagers are often portrayed as thrill-seekers, but research suggests their brains are wired to learn from their experiences, which makes ...
Nano-scale machines could revolutionize surgery and drug delivery
The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The ...
Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...
Why men may have evolved better than women at reconciling with rivals
Men's historical dominance of the workplace may, in part, be because of their ability to reconcile with enemies after conflict, ...
Latvian women, Dutch men world’s tallest nationalities
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals. The average ...
Human Connectome Project maps brain’s cortex into 180 distinct compartments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new brain map, ...
