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High-fat diet in pregnancy can cause mental health problems in offspring

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Jul 21 2017

A high-fat diet during pregnancy alters the development of the brain and endocrine system of offspring, new research in an animal model suggests. The new study links an unhealthy diet during pregnancy to mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression in children.

Fire near Yosemite has destroyed 58 homes, displaced thousands

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Jul 21 2017
  1. Fire near Yosemite has destroyed 58 homes, displaced thousands  CNN

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  2. Mattis decides to withhold US cash from key Pakistani military fund

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    Jul 21 2017
    1. Mattis decides to withhold US cash from key Pakistani military fund  Washington Post

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    2. Kyrie Irving requesting trade out of Cleveland to find bigger role

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      Jul 21 2017
      1. Kyrie Irving requesting trade out of Cleveland to find bigger role  ESPN

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      2. Solar eclipse offers millions a chance at citizen science

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        Jul 21 2017

        Solar eclipse offers millions a chance at citizen scienceMillions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort t

        Today in Entertainment: 'Confederate' producers respond to backlash; Justin Bieber banned in China

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        Jul 21 2017
        1. Today in Entertainment: 'Confederate' producers respond to backlash; Justin Bieber banned in China  Los Angeles Times

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        Florida teens who recorded drowning man will not be charged in his death

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        Jul 21 2017
        1. Florida teens who recorded drowning man will not be charged in his death  CNN

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        Rush hour pollution may be more dangerous than you think

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        Jul 21 2017

        Everyone knows that exposure to pollution during rush hour traffic can be hazardous to your health, but it's even worse than previously thought. In-car measurements of pollutants that cause oxidative stress found exposure levels for drivers to be twice as high as previously believed.

        Good fighters are bad runners

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        Jul 21 2017

        For mice and men, a strength in one area of Darwinian fitness may mean a deficiency in another. A look at Olympic athletes shows that a wrestler is built much differently than a marathoner. It's long been supposed that strength in fighting, or protecting territory and resources, comes at the expense of running, or spatial mobility. Now an experiment with house mice provides evidence for this theory.

        3-D scanning with water

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        Jul 21 2017

        An innovative technique has been developed that more completely reconstructs challenging 3-D objects. This new approach to 3-D shape acquisition is based on the well-known fluid displacement discovery by Archimedes and turns modeling surface reconstruction into a volumetric problem. Their method accurately reconstructs even hidden parts of an object that typical 3-D laser scanners are not able to capture.