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Left to their own devices, babies in the womb would suck their mothers dry. A developing baby benefits from taking as many essential nutrients as possible, but evolutionary theory predicts that to survive pregnancy, mothers need to keep some of these nutrients for themselves.
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Vitamin D may help the body fight influenza by controlling inflammation and the amount of virus in the lungs, according to a study in mice led by researchers at Penn State.
If anyone who follows predictions closely was expecting the world to end today, you can put the emergency supplies away. […]
Few literary canons inspire as much reverence, and fear, as Russia’s. The sheer size and complexity of novels like Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1867) and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov…
Wheat researchers at South Dakota State University are perfecting an AI-powered web application designed to speed the work of wheat breeders and equip farmers with a more accurate tool for making…
We’ve loved sci-fi at New Scientist for the past 70 years, but which novels got the future right? From Neuromancer to The Handmaid’s Tale, Emily H.
Infernogallus – the ‘hell chicken’ dinosaur – evolved to eat a fruit-heavy diet. It may be the first evidence of fruit-eating adaptations among non-avian dinosaurs.
