Tackling food insecurity could improve children's learning
Indian children's education can be impaired when their households struggle to access enough nutritious food, new research has found.
Indian children's education can be impaired when their households struggle to access enough nutritious food, new research has found.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2023
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More efficient and longer lasting glucose-responsive insulin that eliminates the need for people with type 1 diabetes to measure their glucose levels could be a step closer thanks to a Monash University-led project.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 14, 2023
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Bio & Medicine
Mar 1, 2023
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Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2022
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Ecology
Nov 9, 2022
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Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2022
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Casein makes up the majority of the proteins in cheese and quark. Although casein itself does not taste bitter, its digestion in the stomach also produces bitter-tasting protein fragments (peptides). This has been proven ...
Biochemistry
Oct 11, 2022
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We tend to eat, drink, and move less when we're feeling under the weather. And we're not alone—most animals reduce those same three behaviors when they're fighting an infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2022
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The first comprehensive assessment of common synthetic chemicals found in UK foods has been completed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 14, 2022
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An Irrawaddy dolphin calf who was rescued and nursed day and night for weeks by veterinarians and volunteers after his rescue from a tidal pool on Thailand's shore has died despite all their efforts, officials who were providing ...
Ecology
Sep 7, 2022
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