Fats Encourage Overeating

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Fatty foods taste good but can take a toll on your health. A new study in rats found that high-fat diets create the urge to overeat. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer), National Cancer Institute

Cell Phones on the Brain

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Cell Phones on the Brain. Credit Shutterstock

Dolphin Dimples Detect Electricity

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Guiana dolphins, which swim in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea near Central and South America, probably eat bottom-dwelling fish but still surface to splash and play. Credit: Richard Diepstraten

Not Seeing Sunspots

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What a difference! These two images of the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, were taken about 20 months apart. The sun is quiet in the picture at left, taken in January 1997. In the picture at right, taken in November 1998, the sun is more active. When the sun’s activity increases, more sunspots become visible. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)

Plant-Powered Plastics

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Plastic contains polymers, molecules that are linked into long chains. Under a microscope, polymers resemble a bowl of tangled spaghetti. Credit: CPS Program at Carnegie Mellon University

Blood Does A Body Good

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Credit: National Institutes of Health