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Brain scans predict weight and sexual behaviour

Functional MRI scans can reliably judge a person’s most basic appetites.

Happiness is the key to a healthy heart

Positive emotions may protect against cardiovascular diseases.

Vintage Scientists, part 2

Female tsetse flies and what they teach us about mammals

Lactating tsetse flies can shine a light upon lactating mammals.

Fit frogs have fast changing genomes

Frog fitness tests reveals whose genomes change faster.

Pre-Columbian farming secrets could save the Amazonian savanna

Raised farming beds used by the Amazon’s earliest inhabitants could lead the way for a sustainable ecosystem.

Cells among the pigeons

Scientists still don’t know how pigeons find their way home.

Why did the Titanic sink?

It wasn’t a single factor that sent Titanic to the bottom of the ocean, it was a chain of them.

Water can float on oil

A new way to clean up oil spills that threaten our oceans.

Red giants’ weight loss trick

These old stars don’t need diets, they use stellar winds to lose weight instead.

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