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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Just Five Days of Junk Food Can Rewire the Brain

Brief exposure to high-calorie junk food alters brain insulin response in ways that persist after returning to normal eating, suggesting the brain adapts to unhealthy diets faster than previously understood.
fromArs Technica
6 months ago

How the cavefish lost its eyes-again and again

Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. "But it's not that everything has been lost in cavefish," says geneticist Jaya Krishnan of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. "Many enhancements have also happened." Though the demise of their eyes continues to fascinate biologists, in recent years, attention has shifted to other intriguing aspects of cavefish biology.
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