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4-Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos origins project

Scientists have discovered your moral compass - and it's just behind your right ear. MIT researchers have found they can successfully alter people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region.

(Reuters) - The color of money may soon turn a new shade of green as U.S. states across the country consider legalizing and then taxing marijuana to cure chronic budget problems.

For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

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Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the .com domain, according to VeriSign. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com was the first domain to register via a ".com" address. Though it took another decade for .com to really catch on, there are now 80 million .com Web sites, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 1.8 million sports-related sites, and 4.3 million entertainment Web sites.

People leave unique trail of germs: (Reuters) - People leave more than fingerprints when they touch stuff -- they also deposit a tell-tale trail of germs that could help investigators solve crimes, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — A potent new inhibitor of HIV, derived from bananas, may open the door to new treatments to prevent sexual transmission of HIV, according to a newly published University of Michigan Medical School study.

Brain chemical is reward for psychopathic traits

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Alexander McQueen, March 17, 1969 – Feb. 11, 2010

I cried real tears over Alexander McQueen. I'll never forget how he captivated my imagination beginning in middle school, thanks to fashion file, video fashion weekly and fashion tv on E! saturday mornings. He became so iconic that he will never really leave us. RIP

Move to merge Asperger's, autism in diagnostic manual stirs debate

StemCells, Inc. Announces First Human Neural Stem Cell Transplant in Landmark Myelination Disorder Trial

Should We Clone Neanderthals? The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles

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Chimps May Have A 'Language-Ready' Brain

No-Entry Zones for AIDS Virus

Phthalate Exposure Linked to Less-Masculine Play by Boys

Because testosterone produces the masculine brain, researchers are concerned that fetal exposure to anti-androgens such as phthalates -- which are pervasive in the environment -- has the potential to alter masculine brain development, said lead author Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, director of the URMC Center for Reproductive Epidemiology, and an expert in phthalates.

The Indefinite Self-Renewal of Specialized Cells Without the Need for Stem Cell Intermediates

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Why being good is not down to breeding

I remain the authority on what is good and bad... because I represent Goodness, as an angel living among humans.

A ray of light can kill cancer cells without leaving terrible scars - so why are so few offered it?

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Moon Crash, Galaxy Merger, More

ODD NEW PTEROSAUR: "Darwin's Wing" Fills Evolution Gap

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UPDATE 1-Space shuttle to land in California

NASA’s Loss Is Space Tourism’s Gain

Photos: Hubble's newest visions of space

Climate Change Impacting Arctic Ecology

How marijuana became legal

Rosenfeld is one of four people in the United States whom the federal government supplies with medical marijuana. Each is a living anomaly because, officially, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, NIDA, and the FDA all take the position that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use."

-> Saw this on TV a while ago

Gardasil, the vaccine known to prevent cervical cancer in women, might be heading toward approval for use in men to prevent genital warts, healthday reports.

U.S. trials confirm one dose of H1N1 vaccine works

Tamiflu resistance reported in 23 patients: Roche

-> This illistrates how quickly viruses evolve!

US researchers have pinned down new differences in the brain chemistry of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet

Is Twitter evil? Researchers probing the workings of the brain have found that it takes longer for feelings of social compassion and admiration to register on our neural circuits - and they worry that the rapid-fire effect of texting and tweeting could have "potentially negative consequences" for our moral fiber.

Pacific Gas & Electric is going to great lengths--all the way to space--in its quest for renewable energy.

The California utility on Monday said that it will seek approval from regulators to purchase 200 megawatts worth of solar energy delivered from stealth space solar power company Solaren over 15 years.

First 3-D Pictures of Solar Explosions Captured

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Old age begins at 27: Scientists reveal new research into ageing

I guess in the UK aging has an e... crazy brits! This is very compelling evidence to support life extension... or at least doing something about such an inefficient organ...

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Debris misses space station
NASA says a piece of spent rocket motor came within striking distance of the $100-billion station. The damage could have been catastrophic.

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have shown for the first time that it may be possible to "read" a person's mind simply by looking at brain activity.

This reminds me of the Memory to Media Center!

brains connected to the internet

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Study: Do breast tumors go away on their own?

-> skeptical, but you never really know...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday.

-> not a bad idea!

Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Extends Lives (Update2) Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Antigenics Inc. said its experimental cancer treatment that uses cells from a patient’s brain tumor to produce a vaccine helped extend the lives of people with an aggressive form of the disease.

-> I hope I never get cancer!

Fresh Advance For Genentech In Cancer Fight

-> I love SF based biotechnology firms! I just wonder if "drugs" are still marketable at all? (unless they fuck u up)

MONDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The interaction between white blood cells of the immune system and blood vessels may contribute to epileptic seizures, new research suggests

-> I hope to read more studies about this, because we're always learning more about what's connected and what's not connected...

The perfect way to avoid tailbacks on the motorway is a step closer today in the form of a revolutionary flying car.

-> p.s. when I was a kid, I assumed everyone would have this kind of technology at the very LATEST by the year 2000. Another vision has been stolen from a generation!

You too can be a genius (if you can spare 10,000 hours)

-> but I already am a genius! And, my I.Q. tends to go up about points per year...

Whether you are the adventurous type or one of those who sticks to what you know is all down to how your brain is wired, say scientists.