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Why our bodies prefer natural sugar to artificial sweeteners
Your taste buds may or may not be able to tell real sugar from a sugar substitute like Splenda, but ...
Humans are water-saving apes? Homo sapiens’ ability to run on less water may have driven our evolution
Our bodies are constantly losing water: when we sweat, go to the bathroom, even when we breathe. That water needs ...
In a blink of an evolutionary eye, this African island developed resistance to malaria. Here’s how
[R]esearchers have uncovered recent traces of adaptation to malaria in the DNA of people from Cabo Verde, an island nation ...
Game of Thrones and DNA: How genetics could explain some of the unhinged behavior
The White Walkers are on the move (slowly) and political stability in Westeros remains on edge. How did things get ...
Early warning: Alzheimer’s risk could be identified sooner through ‘jumping genes’
Duke University scientists have identified a mechanism in the molecular machinery of the cell that could help explain how neurons ...