Researchers from the University of Chicago conducted a study regarding the relationship of sleep deprivation and glucose levels. With nine healthy young adults as volunteers, the researchers were able to find out the lack of sleep can increase the chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

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The cow is kind of a biological lawnmower - meaning it's head is tilted towards the ground and if you leave it alone in a field somewhere it'll just mow it down. Well researchers may have have found its dinosaur counterpart: the Nigersaurus taqueti. Read the full article for more details.

Aside from its well-documented mythology, another thing mysterious and appealing about ancient Egypt is its gold. Just recently, archaeologists from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute have unearthed an ancient gold-processing and panning camp along the Nile River, revealing where the once-mighty kingdom obtained its resources.

The said camp is located about 800 miles south of Cairo, somewhere in the north region of Sudan. Archaeologists believe that this camp was utilized by Kushites who formerly ruled Sudan. Expedition co-leader Geoff Emberling explained,

Based on what we've found, the kingdom of Kush was significantly larger and more powerful than anyone thought. The process probably went like this: "We send you the trinkets, you send us the bags of gold and we give you more status". The kingdom of Kush and the Egyptians were close trading buddies.

Emberling added that the camp site simply looks like a field of rocks to the untrained eye. However, he shared that their team was able to locate a total of 55 two-foot grindstones used to crush gold ore. Water from the Nile may have been used to sift out the bounty.

However, the team of Emberling doesn't have enough time left to figure out the whole story behind the camp due to time restraints. A dam is currently being built upstream of the excavation site and around 2,500 untouched sites will be affected by it once finished. Emberling is saddened that a big slice of history will be lost despite the work they are doing.

Scientists know for a fact that in the last stages of a star's life, most of them turn into extremely hot and very dense versions of themselves. When the star draws its last breath, it explodes in a cataclysmic blaze of glory and shoots matter into the vastness of space. Of course, that's all theory and nobody's ever seen such a sight come to pass.

Now, scientists at the University of Chicago claim that they've actually witnessed such an event. The whole, thing, however all happened in a computer simulation.

Don't let that fool you. The simulation isn't some scenario that astronomers dreamed up, sent to Pixar, and got a DVD in return. They put all available knowledge into one big program and saw just what the computer thinks happens to a white dwarf in the course of the explosion.

To do this, astronomers invested 58,000 hours of study and work and gave all the knowledge a run at 700 computer processors to do the intense math of the most accurate simulation possible. The results were astounding.

Scientists watched in amazement as they saw what triggers the explosions in these small stars and how everything comes to a conclusion. What happens is actually similar to a diesel engine combustion process where a spark triggers combustion in the chamber and lets off mechanical energy.

In stars, the computer revealed that near the center of the star's core, a jet of white-hot hydrogen 10 miles in diameter rushes upward and shoots to the surface. That provides the spark in which catastrophe follows soon after. Astronomers now believe that the matter spewed after the big blast may be the source of iron in the universe.