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|  | Winner of the 2009 James Beard Foundation Award More and more, studies are showing that what you eat can help your mind and memory, from infancy to old age Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Coax more flavor and nutrition from your produce with these secrets to proper care and handling Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Winner of the 2007 Bert Greene Food Journalism Award Finalist for the 2007 James Beard Foundation Award Finland’s rates of cardiovascular disease have plummeted 75% since the 1970s; a radical national health director with an ambitious country-wide plan was the reason. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Where have all our nutrients gone? -- EatingWell Finalist for the 2006 James Beard Foundation Award Processing food often replaces healthy nutrients with unhealthy ones; our rates of disease are increasing as a result. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Traditional Mexican fare is far healthier than the foods immigrants eat upon arriving in the US. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | A user’s guide to the new USDA food pyramid. Read Full Article | | ||||||
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|  | RNA interference could someday prevent common diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Our hominid ancestors could never have eaten enough raw food to support our large, calorie-hungry brains, Richard Wrangham claims. The secret to our evolution, he says, is cooking. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Heredity isn't just about genes - sometimes we pass along our environments as well. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Regenerating the eye helps researchers learn how to repair the brain. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Can smart dust detect a bio attack? -- Discover Tiny silicon particles may one day be sprayed into the atmosphere to scan for hazardous chemicals. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Scientists have a new way to measure their smallest creations. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | Scientists fashion first single molecule transistors -- ScientificAmerican.com Researchers create transistors out of cobalt and vanadium atoms. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | One, two, tie my -- Discover Scientists use math to determine the most efficient way to lace your shoes. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | Has the lowly single-celled organism struck it rich? Read Full Article | | ||||||
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|  | People who complain about pain may actually feel more of it: new research is showing that hurting is in our genes. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Dehydration isn’t the only killer in the backcountry – sometimes drinking too much water is just as deadly. Here’s how to imbibe the perfect amount. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Makadon’s article in the New England Journal of Medicine focuses on the need for better health care for gay and lesbian patients. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Brand-new laptop accessories help preserve your back, vision, and shoulders. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Doctors have created a pill that, if taken by everyone over the age of 55, could prevent over 80% of heart disease cases. But should we medicate an entire age bracket even when there’s nothing wrong with them? Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Children’s cough and cold meds aren’t as safe as their cartoon-emblazoned boxes would have you believe. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | Five-second rule on trial -- Misstropolis.com New studies put kids' favorite urban myth to the test. Read Full Article | | ||||||
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| | Offset your guilt with Green Piggy. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Flame Fighters Filter Into Folks -- Nature Network Boston BU researchers are finding high levels of commonly used flame retardants in the bodies of Massachusetts residents and figuring out how they got there. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | Goodness in a Garden -- Misstropolis.com The farmer within scratches her way out. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Sky Islands -- Backpacker Lush oases packed with rare plants and animals flourish at the top of desert mountains in the American Southwest. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Environmental epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean -- The Boston Globe Environmental scientist Philippe Grandjean believes the chemicals that companies use in products are lowering kids’ IQs and causing an array of neurodevelopmental disorders; his studies are helping prove it. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | To figure out whether global warming is causing more hurricanes, Woods Hole researcher Jeff Donnelly looks back in time. Read Full Article | | ||||||
| | Wasting away on standby -- Discover Many appliances secretly consume a significant amount of energy while turned off; here are the worst offenders. Read Full Article | | ||||||
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|  | Hanumant Singh builds robots that take breathtaking pictures of all things underwater, including hydrothermal vents, dead whale carcasses, and ancient Greek shipwrecks. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Small-town vet Peggy Larson neuters pets when their owners can’t afford to. She also helps save animals all over the world. Read Full Article | | ||||||
|  | Children’s librarian leaving -- The Williston Observer Children’s librarian Ellen Sinoff is leaving her beloved job at the Williston, VT library for one that can pay the bills, and the kids are hurting. Read Full Article | | ||||||
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