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Take a look in your pantry: the miracle ingredient for fighting obesity may already be there. A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to scientists at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.

Classified as: news, Research, food, obesity, nutrition, prevention, Danielle Donnelly, diabetes, Luis Agellon, potato, stan kubow
Published on: 9 Dec 2014

The opioid pain-reliever tramadol appears to be associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia, a potentially fatal condition caused by low blood sugar, according to a report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Classified as: Research, hypoglycemia, Laurent Azoulay, low blood sugar, McGill Jewsih General Hospiyal, opiod, pain-reliever, Samy Suissa, tramadol
Published on: 8 Dec 2014

If you want your child to tell the truth, it’s best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That’s what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the ages of 4 and 8.

Classified as: Faculty of Education, Research, children, lying, Victoria Talwar, Research News, truth, punishment, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
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Published on: 8 Dec 2014

Sexual behaviour of teenage girls does not appear to have been affected by routine human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination, according to a large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Classified as: Research, teens, McGill, HPV, girls, sexual behaviour, Vaccine, adolescent health, CMAJ, HPV vaccination, promiscuuity, Queen's University, sexually-transmitted infections, vaccination
Published on: 8 Dec 2014

In 2007, a treasure hunting company found a 19th Century shipwreck in the Atlantic, off the coast of Portugal. The company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, claimed property of the shipwreck and its cargo, some 600,000 silver and gold coins.

Classified as: Research, Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, trial, Yves Winter
Published on: 5 Dec 2014

A new study of over 3,400 Canadian women provides further evidence that exposure to air-pollution may increase the risk of developing breast cancer, especially among women who have not yet had their menopause.

Classified as: Research, Cancer, pollution, breast cancer, breast cancer causes, cancer causes, golberg
Published on: 5 Dec 2014

Learning from others and innovation have undoubtedly helped advance civilization. But these behaviours can carry costs as well as benefits. And a new study by an international team of evolutionary biologists sheds light on how one particular cost – increased exposure to parasites – may affect cultural evolution in non-human primates.

Classified as: Biology, evolution, innovation, parasites, exploratory, human culture, primates, Royal Society B, Simon Reader, chimpanzees
Published on: 3 Dec 2014

A growing number of academic researchers are mining social media data to learn about both online and offline human behaviour. In recent years, studies have claimed the ability to predict everything from summer blockbusters to fluctuations in the stock market.

Classified as: Ruths, big data, social media, behaviour, Carnegie Mellon
Published on: 27 Nov 2014

People affected by a common inherited form of autism could be helped by a drug that is being tested as a treatment for cancer, according to researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.

Classified as: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, autism, Nahum Sonenberg, Fragile-X Syndrome
Published on: 27 Nov 2014
Classified as: health, antibiotic
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Published on: 19 Nov 2014
Classified as: brain, health, memory
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Published on: 14 Nov 2014

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