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What caused the Habsburg royal family’s jaw deformity? Blame inbreeding
Today, the Habsburgs are all but forgotten from mainstream public consciousness, apart from one notable feature: the famous Habsburg Jaw ...
How chewing may have shaped human evolution
About 10% of the calories consumed over the course of the day are expended on digesting, absorbing, metabolizing, and eliminating ...
Challenging decades of demonization, LSD appears to improve human cognition
Researchers grew tiny brain tissue in their lab, which they exposed to solutions containing the powerful psychedelic drug LSD. Under ...
Can chocolate really kill dogs?
Unlike cats, which lack the ability to taste sweetness, dogs find chocolate just as appealing as humans. But while the ...
How dangerous is a lack of sleep?
Whether sleep deprivation can kill is somewhat debatable. That’s because people who forgo sleep for extended periods of time may ...
Xenotransplantation: Pig organ transplants into humans could be achieved as soon as 2019 in China
Chinese scientists are now desperately seeking government approval to launch a clinical trial for xenotransplantation. The goal is to have ...
Consumers opposition to GMOs based mostly on “intuition” and not science
Approximately 88 percent of U.S. scientists agree that GMOs are safe to eat, but this position is only shared by 37 percent of laymen ...
