Tuesday, January 26, 2016

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Futurity - 18 hours ago
By George Vlahakis-.. - A little more than two years after the College Board released research rebutting findings concerning the board’s testing methods, a profe..
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Futurity - 18 hours ago
By Allison Hydzik-p.. - “Sexual-minority” youth are at 
higher risk of bullying than heterosexual peers, and 
may, as a result, score low on several key indicators..
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Futurity - 19 hours ago
By Bill Steele-corn.. - Some animals use visual or auditory 
cues to signal “I’m a good catch” or “I’m strong—don’t mess
 with me.” So why do so many species”—like..
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Futurity - 19 hours ago
By John Toon-georgi.. - As you start across the street, out of the corner of your eye, 
you spot something moving toward you. Instantly, your brain shifts its foc..
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Futurity - 19 hours ago
By Barbara Moran-bo.. - Human eyes jump and jitter all the
 time. The tiny movements are “very, very fast,” says Michele 
Rucci, a professor at Boston University, ..
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Futurity - 22 hours ago
By Mike Williams-ri.. - A new nanotech coating can melt 
ice on helicopter blades and might offer a new way to 
de-ice aircraft, wind turbines, and power lines. In..
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Futurity - 1 day ago
By Ker Than-stanfor.. - The consolidation of the ancient 
supercontinent Pangea 300 million years ago played a 
key role in the formation of the coal that powered ..
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Futurity - 1 day ago
By Gregory Filiano-.. - New computer simulations could 
help settle a debate that’s raged for more than a century:
 Are H2O molecules “water-like” or “ice-like”? T..
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Futurity - 4 days ago
By Lawrence Goodman.. - Take the evolution pop 
quiz James Morris, a biology professor at Brandeis University,
 gives his students on the first day of class. At th..

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Futurity - 4 days ago
By Bill Hathaway-ya.. - A simple questionnaire filled
 out by people suffering from depression can help 
identify whether a particular medication is likely to help..
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Futurity - 4 days ago
By Krishna Ramanuja.. - People who undergo bariatric 
surgery to lose weight can experience remission of Type 2 diabetes
—sometimes just days after the procedure, ..
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Futurity - 4 days ago
By Richard Lewis-io.. - Most animals, including humans, 
have two copies of their genome—the full set of instructions
 needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ..
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Futurity - 4 days ago
By Kate Becker-bost.. - The most luminous objects in the 
cosmos are actually invisible to the naked eye. They are
 called “blazars,” mysterious objects that glow ..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By James Devitt-nyu - It’s no secret that people slow
 down mentally after making a mistake. Monkeys do, too.
 Neuroscientists call it post-error slowing or PES. W..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Carol Clark-emor.. - To decide whether and where
 to move in the body, cells need to read chemical
 signals in their environment—and they don’t act alone during..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Fabio Bergamin-e.. - A new 3D microprinting 
process allows scientists to easily manufacture 
tiny, complex metal components. The copper objects 
shown in these ..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Jim Dryden-wustl - A new wireless brain sensor 
can monitor intracranial pressure and temperature
 and then be absorbed by the body  all above items as 'Read'
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Liam Jackson-pen.. - Using a combination of data
 from Twitter, Flickr, and remote sensing can help
 responders identify hotspots in ways that satellite data al..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Layne Cameron-mi.. - A bird that lives in the forests
 of northeastern India and sings a very melodic tune is 
a whole new species, scientists report. Listen to..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By A'ndrea Elys.. - A new lithium-ion battery that 
self-heats could be the answer for electric car
 owners who drive in frigid weather and suffer from winter ..
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Futurity - 5 days ago
By Kimm Fesenmaier-.. - Scientists have found
evidence there’s a giant planet at the edge of our 
solar system. They’re calling it “Planet Nine.” “This would be a..
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Futurity - 6 days ago
By Sarah Avery-duke - When a child comes home
 from preschool with a stomach bug that threatens
 to sideline the whole family for days, why do some
 members of the ..
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Futurity - 6 days ago
By Katherine Gombay.. - Jackie Goordial has
 spent the past four years looking for signs of 
active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from
 one of the coldest..
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Futurity - 6 days ago
By Robin Smith-duke - A lot of animals—including
 people—feel anxious in crowds. But not prairie voles. 
They’re less stressed when they’re elbow to elbow. Prairie..
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Futurity - 6 days ago
By Jeff Hoelscher-u.. - Influenza causes serious illness among millions of people each year, resulting in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths. Those most at risk include i..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Mike Williams-ri.. - Plasticity is the ability of a
 material to permanently deform when strained.
 Researchers, thinking about future things like
 flexible elec..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By A'ndrea Elys.. - The shiny skins of certain ribbonfish
reflect light across a broad range of wavelengths, giving
 them a brilliant metallic appearance. The..

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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Catherine Gara-j.. - A potential new antidepressant
 could work in hours, not weeks or months, according
 to experiments with mice. The drug used in the animal ..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Marla Broadfoot-.. - Touch a hot stove, and your 
fingers will recoil in pain. That’s because your skin 
carries tiny temperature sensors that detect heat and s..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Diana Lutz-wustl - To most of us “virulent” means 
“aggressive,” or just plain “bad,” but to a microbiologist
 it has a more specific meaning. Virulent strains ..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Gabe Cherry-mich.. - A thin, stretchable film that 
coils light waves like a Slinky could one day lead to 
more precise, less expensive monitoring for cancer su..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Katherine Gombay.. - It takes just one-tenth 
of a second for our brains to begin to recognize
 emotions conveyed by vocal sounds—no matter
 if the sounds are gr..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Jim Patterson-va.. - Negative feelings about each 
other—not competing ideologies—keep Republicans 
and Democrats from encouraging their representatives to comp..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Bert Gambini-buf.. - How the news media and 
public officials communicated risk to Americans
 during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
 may have influenced ..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Robin Smith-duke - Spending lots of time in close contact with others can up the risk of catching germs and getting sick. But being social may also help trans..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Marc Airhart-tex.. - A newly discovered mechanism in the brain may explain how we can recall nearly all of what happened on a recent afternoon—or make a thoro..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Emil Venere-purd.. - Researchers are testing a way to
 control a single microbot that operates as part of a group. 
The robots are too small for batteries, so i..

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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Clifton B. Parke.. - People don’t read diet books
 just to lose weight. They serve as both “myths and 
manuals” for a better world, a new analysis of contempora..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Peter Rüegg-eth .. - The hagfish has a bizarre way
 of fending off predators: It secretes a slime mass that 
can immobilize vast amounts of water. Any fish tha..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Jackie Ogburn-du.. - A new report says the United 
States needs to expand community policing efforts to
 fight violent extremism at home—and to keep those effor..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Emil Venere-purd.. - Small marine organisms 
swimming in concentrated “hotspots” likely contribute 
to the mixing of water needed to distribute nutrients for oc..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Katie Delach-pen.. - Health warning labels like those 
found on cigarette and other tobacco products could
 have a powerful effect on whether parents buy soda a..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By David Orenstein-.. - Combining the drug topiramate
 with psychological counseling curbs marijuana use
 among young smokers significantly more than counseling al..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Thania Benios-un.. - Packaging a cancer drug
 in bubble containers derived from a patient’s own
 immune system makes it much more effective.
 Doing so protects t..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Katherine Gombay.. - Proteins called megaenzymes
 play an active role in creating many common antibiotics
, such as penicillin and cyclosporin. Scientists recen..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Alexis Blue-u. A.. - As married couples spend day 
in and day out together, they begin to experience a 
level of interdependence in which one spouse’s quality o..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By A'ndrea Elys.. - A study of worker honey bees 
suggests the genes they inherit from their queen
—matrigenes—direct worker bees’ altruistic behavior. But whe..

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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Brandon Howard-j.. - Low bodyweight, anemia, 
and other nutritional deficiencies put pregnant women 
at greater risk of getting hepatitis E, a disease particula..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Michelle Ma-wash.. - Scientists are using the 
Pacific Ocean along the West Coast as a model 
for how other areas of the ocean may respond
 in coming decades as ..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Lisa Chedekel-bo.. - Experts say prior studies that 
examined the link between obesity and death are flawed 
because they rely on one-time measures of body mass..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Lauren Nelson-jo.. - New rules for allocating donor
 kidneys have led to more transplants for blacks and 
Hispanics, whose access to donor organs had been held ..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Marla Paul-north.. - If a child with a food allergy has a
 life-threatening reaction, parents need to know how to
 act, but many say doctors aren’t teaching the..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Matthew Swayne-p.. - Children of Mexican immigrants 
in the United States often abandon the generally healthy 
diet of their mothers for less nutritious America..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Blaine Friedland.. - A new therapy uses white 
blood cells to ferry cancer-killing proteins through 
the bloodstream. Tests show it virtually eliminates metasta..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Stanford - In the last 15 years, grave relocation
 has been taking place in China on a massive scale. 
To date, some 15 million deceased people’s remains have b..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Mike Williams-ri.. - Scientists have created a new 
composite material that is half liquid, but it doesn’t
 leak when cracked. And it can quickly heal, over and..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Fabio Bergamin-e.. - When Thomas Schöps wants
 to create a 3D model of a building, he pulls out his 
tablet computer. As he completes a leisurely walk around th..

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Futurity - 1 week ago
By U. Washington - Quasars are the compact area at 
the center of large galaxies, usually surrounding a 
massive black hole. Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Carol Clark-emor.. - A songbird’s vocal muscles work
 like those of human speakers and singers, a study of
 Bengalese finches shows. Each of the birds’ vocal mu..
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Futurity - 1 week ago
By Paulette Campbel.. - Surgeons used a new technique
 to attach a thought-controlled robot arm directly to an 
amputee’s stump, giving him a far greater range of ..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Fred Love-iowa S.. - Midwestern farmers usually fare
 well during years that El Niño weather patterns affect 
the growing season. But experts say that can chang..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Allison Hydzik-p.. - For adults who are severely 
obese, the more sedentary they are, the higher their 
risk for diabetes and other health problems—regardless o..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Mark Shwartz-sta.. - A new lithium-ion battery shuts 
down before overheating, then restarts immediately 
when the temperature cools. The technology could preve..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Sara Diedrich-io.. - Reading to babies does more
 for language development than playing with toys or puppets. 
More back-and-forth interaction could be the reas..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Laura Bailey-mic.. - Nisin, a naturally occurring 
preservative found in many foods, is showing 
promise as a way to fight cancer and
 antibiotic-resistant bacte..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Thania Benios-un.. - The more social ties people
 have at an early age, the better their health is at the 
beginnings and ends of their lives, a new study sugge..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Marla Paul-north.. - Health care providers and 
insurance companies are increasingly relying on 
smartphone and wearable activity trackers to reward active indi..

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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Lisa Chedekel-bo.. - Alcohol use disorder can
 exacerbate depression and post-traumatic stress
 disorder (PTSD) symptoms in deployed military service members—es..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Bill Hathaway-ya.. - Just like people, some monkeys 
will take the time and effort to punish others who get 
more than their fair share. In fact, they can act d..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Allison Hydzik-p.. - Hookah smokers may be inhaling 
far more toxicants than they think. Researchers reviewed
 542 scientific articles potentially relevant to c..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Amy Pullan-sheff.. - Satellite images of the Southern 
Ocean show large icebergs store up to 20 percent of carbon in the ocean. Melting water from the icebergs..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Chris Chipello-m.. - Gold nanoparticles have unusual 
optical, electronic, and chemical properties. But the 
tiny particles are much more interesting when they ..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Doug Bennett-flo.. - Chronic stress may stimulate
 production of a protein that then goes on to block an enzyme that breaks down body fat, new evidence suggest..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Jim Barlow-orego.. - Researchers studying a 
sponge-like creature say they’ve found evidence that 
one mutation more than 600 million years ago may 
have paved t..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Fabio Bergamin-e.. - The general view of aging is 
that as we get older the cells in our bodies begin to
 malfunction and, as a result, we get sick. In a number..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By James Devitt-nyu - Both black and white Americans 
show a preference for lighter-skinned over 
darker-skinned political candidates when they think the governmen..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Clifton B. Parke.. - We have a harder time moving
 on after a breakup if rejection leaves us doubting who 
we really are, a new study finds. “The research shows..

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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Andy Henion-mich.. - About one in four youth say
 they have been pressured by friends online to talk
about sex when they didn’t want to. A new study of 439 mid..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Elizabethe Holla.. - When the Ebola virus outbreak 
erupted in West Africa in 2014, children infected with
 the virus—particularly those under age 5—faced overw..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Jason Maderer-ge.. - International experts are 
far from convinced that North Korea actually 
conducted its first H-bomb test, which was 
reported by the country..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Amy Laird-carneg.. - Scientists have confirmed the
 discovery of 4 new elements, which will fill in the
 missing elements from the periodic table’s seventh row...
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Katherine Gombay.. - People in the Arctic appear to have an inherent ability to adapt to climate change, perhaps because they are so used to accepting a clima..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Joan Brasher-van.. - Scientists have known that
 infants’ early learning experiences may positively
 affect later development through processes called “developm..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Vanessa Mcmains-.. - A second stroke may offer
 a path to successful rehab well after the usual 
window of opportunity from a prior disabling stroke has closed...
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Amy Adams-stanfo.. - Scientists tracked the activity 
in two brain regions and found that people who have a 
strong connection between the two regions are less ..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Shilo Rea-carneg.. - Interviews with Palestinian youth suggest that differing religious beliefs don’t always incite aggression. In fact, the findings raise th..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Peter Kelley-u. .. - Today’s college graduates tend
 to be highly trained and employable, but researchers 
say they often lack a key skill needed for post-colle..

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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Fabio Bergamin-e.. - A new way of printing 
electrodes could make touchscreens in phones and 
other devices work and look better. The new electrodes, some of th..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Nathan Hurst-mis.. - A gene that is known to 
suppress the growth and spread of many types of 
cancer has the opposite effect in some forms of 
colorectal cancer..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Jennifer Langsto.. - Lower- and middle-income 
people who live in neighborhoods with stores, libraries,
 and other destinations nearby are more likely to walk o..
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Futurity - 2 weeks ago
By Chris Chipello-m.. - Extreme weather is taking a toll 
on cereal crops, particularly in North America, Europe, 
and Australasia. Drought and heat slashed cereal..

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