HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — On the Ivy League campus of Dartmouth College, even the football tackling dummies are smart.

Energy-burning ‘good’ brown fat can be created in the laboratory and implanted in the body to help reduce weight gain and lower glucose levels, scientists have discovered. “This is figuratively and literally a hot area of research right now,” said senior author Andreas Stahl of UC Berkeley. In the study, the research team worked with stem cells that they obtained from the energy storing or ‘bad’ white fat.

The Colorado movie massacre gunman is destined for the “darkest, most painful part of hell,” a sobbing victim testified on Monday at the start of a three-day hearing after which James Holmes will be formally sentenced to life with no parole. “I will never forgive the monster that sits in this courtroom, smiling and laughing with his defense attorneys when the jury and your honor are out of the room,” said Anita Busch, whose second cousin Micalya Medek was among the 12 people Holmes killed. Holmes, clean-shaven and clad in red jail garb, showed no reaction as a procession of victims addressed the court.