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Foods such as pomegranates, red grapes, pears, mushrooms, lentils, soybeans and green peas contain natural compounds which can activate autophagy, helping to prevent inflammation and gut diseases.

Researchers at Biodesign Institute have revved the engine of biological evolution to unheard of speed, creating completely new proteins in an infinitesimal fraction of the time it took nature to do the same thing.

"Males have more pronounced personalities than females across a range of species - from humans to house sparrows - according to new research. Consistent personality traits, such as aggression and daring, are also more important to females when looking for a mate than they are to males. Research from the University of Exeter draws together a range of studies to reveal the role that sexual selection plays in this disparity between males and females."

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Extraterrestrial source confirmed for comet's amino acids

See colourful images from deep space captured by Nasa's x-ray observatory since 1999.

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"Sie haben auf der Haut von neun Stink-Frosch-Arten über 700 Substanzen identifiziert, die sich möglicherweise für die Entwicklung neuer Antibiotika eignen. Mit diesen antimikrobiellen Peptiden (AMPs) schützen die Frösche ihre Haut vor Infektionen. Das ist auch nötig, denn die Haut der kleinen Stinker ist immer feucht - in der tropischen Wärme ihrer südchinesischen Heimat wäre das ohne die Schutzsubstanzen ein fataler Nährboden für Bakterien. .. vielversprechend, da sie einen Zwei-Komponenten-Effekt aufweisen: Sie bekämpfen die Bakterien direkt und mobilisieren gleichzeitig das Immunsystem der Frösche, berichten die Wissenschaftler. Ein Antibiotikum mit diesen Eigenschaften wäre der Traum der Mediziner, denn viele krankheitserregende Bakterienarten werden zunehmend resistent gegen die gängigen Antibiotika. Die Forscher betonen, dass die Forschungsarbeiten noch am Anfang stehen, sie sind aber von dem enormen Potential der AMPs ihrer stinkenden Forschungsobjekte überzeugt"

One of the most complete early human skulls yet found suggests that what scientists thought were three hominin species may in fact be one. This controversial claim comes from a comparison between the anatomical features of a 1.8-million-year-old fossil skull with those of four other skulls from the same excavation site at Dmanisi, Georgia. The wide variability in their features suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus, the species so far identified as existing worldwide in that era, might represent a single species.

In the past 30 years, a scientific revolution has completely transformed our understanding of babies and young children. Babies both know more and learn more than we would ever have thought possible, and we have recently begun to grasp the mechanisms by which they do this. I wrote The Philosophical Baby to try to show that thinking about childhood can help us answer deep questions about truth, imagination, love, consciousness, identity and morality. Without exaggeration, I believe it can tell us how we came to be human.