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Crew in Moscow to Simulate Part of a Flight to Mars
Giant laser experiment powers up
Guest Column: Computers vs. Brains - Olivia Judson Blog
Chicks Do Arithmetic
A Well-Timed Reminder Helps Erase Scary Memories
Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
How scratching can stop an itch
A Wiring Diagram in the Brain for Depression
Game Simulations Answer Baseball’s What-Ifs
Mind - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride
Observatory - A Soak Extracts DNA and Leaves an Old Bug Intact
From Developing Limbs, Insights That May Explain Much Else
Visual Science - A New Look at Race and Natural Selection
Testosterone boost doesn't fuel risky behaviour in women
Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex
Food memories 'influence tastes'
What You See Is What You Feel
Women pick up body odour better
Scientists find 'pleasure nerves'
Evidence That Mice Produce Egg Cells After Birth
Scientist at Work - John Grunsfeld - Last Voyage for Hubble’s Keeper
A "video game" to reduce aggression
The Anatomy of the Mesolimbic Reward System: A Link between Personality and the Placebo Analgesic Response
Writing About Values Lifts Some Students’ Grades
Coral Study in Mexico Suggests Rapid Sea Rise From Warmin
Ants inhabit 'world without sex'
Apples' autumn colour change clue
Seemingly Misplaced DNA Acts As Lenses
Spirit Is Ailing But Still Running
A Nose for Disease -- Thomas
How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
The Green Issue - Why Isn’t the Brain Green?
Eye 'Patch' - Sleep Cycles - Autism & Vitamin D
Morning Birds Buckle Under Sleep Pressure
Scientist at Work - Anna Dornhaus - Researcher Studies Ants and Bees, One by One
Brain imaging skewed : Nature News
Fatty foods 'offer memory boost'
Invoking the Sputnik Era, Obama Vows Record Outlays for Research
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Taking Age Stereotypes To Heart
Stem cell 'deafness cure' closer
The vaccine/autism theory may be dead, but the treatments live on
Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds
Research Links Poor Children's Stress and Brain Impairment
DNA Test Outperforms Pap Smears
Findings - Public Policy That Makes Test Subjects of Us All
House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma - Roaches
Autism Rates Are Higher for U.S.-Born Somali Children in Minneapolis
Vital Signs - Regimens - Tai Chi Shows Promise as a Stroke Therapy
Diabetes 'impact on brain power'
Eye 'compensates for blind spot'
Oral allergy syndrome may explain mysterious reactions
Diabetes 'impact on brain power'
'Double whammy' malaria drug hope
Women's 'binge tan' cancer risk
Spray for 'six times longer' sex
Oral sex linked to throat cancer
Einstein and Newton 'had autism'
Rural Doctor Finds Benefits in Electronic Medical Records
Drug offers hope on Alzheimer's
Prenatal Testing of Thyroid Is Debated
A Deadly Germ Unleashed by Antibiotics - Well Blog
Well - Stomach Bug, C. Difficile, Crystallizes Antibiotic Threat
Jail Time Increases Odds of Hypertension, Researchers Find
Heroin Addiction Drug May Relieve Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
Guidance Counselor - Learning Disabilities - Stepping Up to the Challenge
Health
Home births 'as safe as hospital'
Stem cells 'can treat diabetes'
Local, State Agencies Lack Resources to Ensure Food Safety
Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder?
Well - What Are Friends for? A Longer Life
More Wii Warriors Are Playing Hurt
Birth Ratio Favoring Boys Seems to Vary by Latitude
Stephen Hawking Hospitalized
More Wii Warriors Are Playing Hurt
Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms
Mind - To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment
Really? - The Claim - Weight Training Is Bad for Blood Pressure - Question
A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays
Rapid Emotional Swings Could Precede Violence
Painkiller 'no Alzheimer's block'
What If Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Cause of Autism?
F.D.A. Approves Monthly Injectable Arthritis Drug
Health and Wellness - Well Blog
BBC NEWS | Health | Child behaviour 'linked to sleep'
Books - Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy
With Aid of Johns Hopkins Drug Library, New Remedies From Old
Women Who Keep Ovaries After Hysterectomy Live Longer
Drugs to Lower Antibody Levels Expand Kidney Transplants
Vital Signs - Enforcing Law on Cigarette Sales Cuts Teenage Smoking
A.D.H.D. Drugs Linked to Higher Test Scores - Well Blog
Assessing the Danger of New Strain of Swine Flu
Avodart, Prostate Drug, Found to Reduce Cancer Risk
Breast-Feeding Benefits Mothers, Study Finds
Shortage of Doctors an Obstacle to Obama Goals
F.D.A. Easing Access to ‘Morning After’ Pill
Technology
Concrete Being Remixed With Environment in Mind
Behind the Wheel - 2010 Toyota Prius - Hybrid Superstar Shines Brighter
Wind-powered car breaks record
Google to venture into start-ups
China Vies to Be Leader in Electric Vehicles
Economy Takes the Controls From Some Video-Game Pros
Thin and Inexpensive Netbooks Affect PC Industry
Hal, Call Your Office - Computers That Act Like Physicists
Investors Drop Bid to Build Power Lines From Upstate to New York City
Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job
Digital Domain - Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word
Microsoft’s Netbook Conundrum
Will the iPhone 3.0 Fuel a Second Gold Rush?
G.M. Conjures Up a People-Moving Pod
Macs Aren’t Safer, Just a Smaller Target
Video Game Review - Nintendo DSi - More Than Just Games in Nintendo’s New Toy
Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
T-Mobile to Use Google Software in Devices for Home
Cameras With Time-Machine Powers - Pogue’s Posts Blog
State of the Art - HD Radio Is Crying Out to Be Heard
Keeping Up With Being Kept - Making it Easy for "Sugar Daddies" to Connect With "Sugar Babies"
From the Desk of David Pogue - Cameras With Time-Machine Powers
Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'
PlayStation outsells Wii in Japan
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
Novelties - On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera
Report Says Small-Car Buyers Sacrifice Safety for Fuel Economy
Small Cars Rate Poorly in New Crash Tests - Wheels Blog
State of the Art - The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.
E.P.A. to Clear the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases
Apple Tops PC Customer Service Rankings
Germans protest over pig patent
Creating a panoramic experience
Vitamin deficiency asthma 'link'
The Green Issue - Batteries Not Included
Aerodynamics on Land - Aiming for 800 M.P.H.
Findings - Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet
In Sun, Oracle Sees a Software Gem
Google News, and More, on a Timeline
Now You Can Change What Google Says About You
Improved Lithium Ion Battery Technology Could Fast-Charge Electric Vehicles, Boost Acceleration
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
Tunbridge Wells Journal - Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out
Novelties - Eyeglasses With a Digital Dimension
Apple Says No to Netbooks - Gadgetwise Blog
Unboxed - Verizon’s Experiment in Volunteer Customer Service
Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999?
Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination
Apple Said to Be in Talks to Sell IPhone for Verizon
Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record - Bits Blog
G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc
Universities get $5 million in grants to use IBM/Google cloud
First Android netbook to cost about $250
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