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- Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
- Light weights are just as good for building muscle, getting stronger, researchers find
- Armpits, belly buttons and chronic wounds: The ABCs of our body bacteria
- Rats have best bite of rodent world
| Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT "Love thy neighbor" is preached from many a pulpit. But new research suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and less religious people.  |
| Light weights are just as good for building muscle, getting stronger, researchers find Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:53 AM PDT Lifting less weight more times is just as effective at building muscle as training with heavy weights, a finding that turns conventional wisdom on its head. The key to muscle gain, say the researchers, is working to the point of fatigue.  |
| Armpits, belly buttons and chronic wounds: The ABCs of our body bacteria Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:02 AM PDT Minutes after you were born, bacteria moved in. Their populations have exploded, diversified and spread in and on your body, including your skin. Scientists are learning how and why bacteria colonize particular places, possibly pointing to ways of treating skin and other conditions. Researchers have discovered that each person's collection of bacteria is unique -- like fingerprints. But unlike your fingerprints, the bacterial communities can change depending on your diet, environment, health, age and many other factors. Swab samples from about 200 volunteers' belly buttons contained an astonishing variety of bacteria -- nearly 4,000 different strains, many of which are completely new to scientists.  |
| Rats have best bite of rodent world Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:02 PM PDT Scientists have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that 'specialize' in one or other of these biting mechanisms.  |
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