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Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch

The new research by an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, provides archaeological evidence that has previously been lacking to support the hypothesis that the duplication of the starch digestion genes is an adaptive response to an increased starch diet. "This is very exciting. The

Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, study finds: Small-scale trial is the first randomized, controlled research of its kind

This small-scale study of 20 adult volunteers, conducted by researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), is the first randomized controlled trial examining the effects of ultra-processed foods as defined by the NOVA classification system. This system considers foods "ultra-processed" if they have

Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars

Now, researchers may have a better understanding how such planets formed.

An electric tongue can handle more spicy foods than you can

In a new paper in the Journal of Food Science, recent WSU graduate student Courtney Schlossareck and her advisor, Carolyn Ross, found that the e-tongue is very accurate at telling the difference of spiciness between samples of the same food. Thousands of new spicy products hit supermarket shelves every year.

Brazil's Zika Babies Are Growing Up

“When the Zika epidemic first happened there was an explosion in the media.

US: Reject Proposal to Force Pain Patients Off Opioid Medication

Expand Maria Higginbotham, 57, holding screws and bolts removed from her back in a recent surgery above x-rays of her body. Higginbotham, a chronic pain patient diagnosed with degenerative disc disorder and a number of other painful conditions, has had twelve operations to prevent the collapse of her spine. © 2018

A genomic tour-de-force reveals the last 5,000 years of horse history

The findings identify two new horse lineages that are now extinct and suggest that familiar traits such as speed were only selected for more recently in their history

Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes: New evidence that the mind-blowing brew goes back millennia

The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence of ritualistic psychotropic plant use going back millennia, said Miller, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted the research during her doctoral studies at UC Berkeley.

Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out: Scientists have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials of any color, shape, or form

Now a team of researchers at the U.S.

Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds: Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a second

The international research team bombarded graphene with hydrogen atoms.

Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy

NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies.

Despite health warnings, Americans still sit too much: Survey of 50,000 people across multiple ages, racial, ethnic groups documents troubling trends

The research team analyzed surveys of 51,000 people from 2001 to 2016 to track sitting trends in front of TVs and computers and the total amount of time spent sitting on a daily basis.

Close relatives can coexist: two flower species show us how

These findings offer a different perspective on theories surrounding co-existence, and suggest a new significance for plants' ability to self-fertilize..

Embryo stem cells created from skin cells

As published in Cell Stem Cell, Dr.

Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes

The idea is to place two or three satellites in circular orbit around the Earth to observe black holes..