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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Children at lower risk for peanut, tree nut allergies if moms ate more nuts while pregnant, study suggests

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 03:18 PM PST

Women need not fear that eating peanuts during pregnancy could cause their child to develop a peanut allergy, according to a new study. The studies shows increased peanut consumption by pregnant mothers who weren't nut allergic was associated with lower risk of peanut allergy in their offspring.

Modern caterpillars feed at higher temperatures in response to climate change

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 06:35 AM PST

Caterpillars of two species of butterflies in Colorado and California have evolved to feed rapidly at higher and at a broader range of temperatures in the past 40 years, suggesting that they are evolving quickly to cope with a hotter, more variable climate.

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