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Food

Compound found in red grapes and peanuts may prevent memory loss

Resveratrol may help people afflicted with neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, study suggests
Engineering

New approach to brain aneurysms: Filling them with polymer foams

NIH provides $2.5 million in funding; clinical human trials are anticipated by 2018
Ecosystems

Monarchs are on comeback trail, but need more milkweed along the way

Researchers estimate population at 56 million, up 70 percent from 2014, but nowhere near the billions that existed 20 years ago
Animals

TIAS Fellow leads effort to ID gene that explains variations in beaks

The journal Nature publishes study for 206th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth
Policy

Keeping young offenders close to home results in fewer re-arrests

Young offenders respond better to county supervision than to state facilities, new study says
Ecosystems

China’s land-use policies could threaten biodiversity, study claims

By 2030, urban land in China will cover an area the size of Iraq, according to researchers at Texas A&M, Yale and Virginia Tech
Engineering

Rugby champions consult engineers at A&M about concussion sensors

New tech monitors a player’s hydration level or the level of G-force experienced when taking a hit
Geology

JOIDES Resolution explores floor of Indian Ocean to study monsoons

International team of scientists will document changes in the monsoon cycle recorded in sediments of the Bengal Fan
Medicine

Anxiety in the dentist’s chair: Survey identifies techniques to calm patients

About half of surveyed hygienists say they must work with significant number of nervous patients