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How the turtle's shell evolved
Milky Way's sweetness throughout
Mystery of dolphins' speed solved
Electric fish prefers sexual charge of its own species - life
Brain exercises are 'waste of time' says Scottish professor
Memories may be stored on your DNA - life
Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real
A New View of the Early Earth, Thanks to Australian Rocks
Deep-voiced men not guaranteed to impress - life
Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men:
Test reveals dogs' jealous side
Religious 'shun nanotechnology'
Basics - Primal, Acute and Easily Duped - Our Sense of Touch
Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb
Dolphin males leave sponging to the females - environment
How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation." - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
Black hole confirmed in Milky Way
Water found in hot planet's orbit
Kickstarting puberty : Nature News
Fertile women more open to corny chat-up lines - life
In The Brain, Justice Is Served From Many Parts
Revenge of the Nerds -- Zelkowitz 2008 (1212): 2
D. Carleton Gajdusek, Who Won Nobel for Work on Brain Disease, Is Dead at 85 - Obituary (Obit)
The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain
The Evolutionary Origins of Hiccups and Hernias
Scientific Journal to Authors - Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
Dinosaur Dads Took Care of Nest -- Stokstad 2008 (1218): 1
Pain: 'Tis Better to Receive--Accidentally -- Coelho 2008 (1219): 2
Scientists sniff out prion secret
Observatory - African Fish Need a Little Electricity for Love to Bloom
First vertebrate eye to use mirror instead of lens - life - 24 December 2008
Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle
China finds major dinosaur site
New Year to arrive a tick later
Genes give Africans a better sense of taste - life - 02 January 2009
Brain Boot Camp Makes You Smarter
Magicology: Casting a spell on the mind - life
In Faces We Trust
It’s Written All Over Your Face
Love skews your sense of smell - life
The Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine in an Addiction Study
Haven't I Seen You Before? -- Holden 2009 (106): 1
A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects
Brain's Arteries Have a Mind of Their Own -- Miller 2009 (121): 1
A billion frogs on world's plates
Single cell 'can store memories'
Newborn Babies Feel the Beat
Emperor penguins face extinction
Remote island celebrates pioneer
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Mars Rover Disoriented Somewhat After Glitch
School Recess Improves Behavior - Well Blog
Serotonin May Be Key to Controlling Locusts
The Legal Brain: How Does the Brain Make Judgments about Crimes?
Support Cells, Not Neurons, Lull the Brain to Sleep
Serotonin Makes Locusts Swarm -- Enserink 2009 (129): 2
Hey, Fish, Got My Back? -- Lester 2009 (129): 4
The Cost of Fearing Strangers - Freakonomics Blog
Born to Be a Trader? Fingers Point to Yes.
Findings - Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss
Basics - Tracking Forest Creatures on the Move
A Leap for Teleporting, Between Ions Feet Apart
Theory and Experiment Meet, and a New Form of Boron Is Found
Math Backs Limited Profiling in Airport Screening
Transfer of Mother’s Cells Molds Baby’s Immunity
A Most Private Evolution
How your mother might affect your memory: Scientific American Blog
Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy
Born believers: How your brain creates God - science-in-society
Is the Roman Pantheon a colossal sundial? - space
Color Me Creative -- Miller 2009 (205): 1
Parasitic butterflies dupe hosts with ant music - life
Springtime Cue for Lovebirds Found
Women Have Hormonal Cues For Baby Cuteness
Newborn brain cells 'time-stamp' memories
How your looks betray your personality - life
Scientists debunk myth of one in 10 children born to 'wrong' father
Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome
What causes schizophrenia?
In Lower Hudson Valley, Bald Eagles Thrill Their Fans
Babies who gesture have bigger vocabularies: study
First Rough Draft Of Neandertal Genome Released
Darwin, Prescient with ‘Origin,’ Is Still Influential
Observatory - Detecting Brain Injuries in Salmon From Hydroelectric Dams
Essay - Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live
Genes Offer New Clues in Old Debate on Species’ Origins
Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life
Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks
Findings - Historian Richard Milner Performs the Humor in Darwin
A Smaller, Faster Stimulus Plan, but Still With a Lot of Money
Write a Song, Win a Prize - TierneyLab Blog
Pucker up: Scientists study kissing
Kissing Chemistry
Dance duet helps male birds mate
Observatory - Hunted by Puma, It Flees, but Against Fox, It Fights
Officials Set Timetable for Getting Particle Collider Back on Track
Perseverence Is Paying Off for a Test of Relativity in Space
Food Flavor Mystery Solved
Anti-aging: A Little Stress May Keep Cells Youthful
Race for 'God particle' heats up
Alien life 'may exist among us'
Rescue Flight - Taking to the Skies With the Endangered Whooping Crane
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Mouse Down's 'eased in the womb'
Brain works better with neurological disease - health
Science News / Lifestyle May Link Depression And Heart Disease
Fitness and the Brain: Can a Walk a Day Keep Alzheimer's Away?
Brain is rewired in patients with chronic pain syndrome
Scientist at Work - Rodolfo Llinás - In a Host of Ailments, Seeing a Brain Out of Rhythm - Biography -
'Time-bending drug' for jet lag
Clock-gene variants linked to diabetes
Cold sores 'an Alzheimer's risk'
Panel Urges More Screening of Brain Injury in Troops
As Rods Go, So Go the Cones -- Price 2008 (1208): 4
The Evidence Gap - The Pain May Be Real, but the Scan Is Deceiving
Sparking Recovery with Brain "Pacemakers"
The Evolutionary Origins of Schizophrenia
Reading Minds - Chill Pills - Obesity Genes
Therapy hope for eating disorders
Psychiatrists Revising the Book of Human Troubles
Does sugar make children hyperactive? Festive myths explored
Fears raised over new vCJD wave
Head-banging hammers the brain
A Mysterious Link Between Sleeplessness and Heart Disease
'Clue' to sexes' pain difference
Disturbed Sleep Tied To Parkinson's Risk
Starving aging brain of glucose may trigger Alzheimer's: study
Men more responsive to caffeine
Immune cells link to Parkinson's
Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds
Grape extract kills cancer cells
Marinating 'may cut cancer risk'
Thiamine 'reverses kidney damage'
Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says
15 per cent of people with dementia under 65: Alzheimer society
Avoid antipsychotic drugs for elderly, experts urge, after death risk study
Parkinson’s Brain Surgery Works In Older Patients, Too
Parkinson’s Brain Surgery Works In Older Patients, Too
Brain-cooling devices developed
New study: Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are genetically linked : Scientific American Blog
Premenstrual Syndrome - Reporter's File - A Clash of Science and Politics Over PMS
SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It
BBC NEWS | Health | 'Visions link' to coffee intake
Personal Health - Trying Anything and Everything to Cure a Child's Autism - NYTimes.com
'Body double' aids stroke victims
Staying calm, socializing may help prevent dementia: study
Easygoing, Social People May Get Dementia Less Often
Even 'fake' acupuncture helps in headaches and migraines
Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
Darkness, Melatonin May Stall Breast And Prostate Cancers
Cutting calories 'boosts memory'
Dead athletes' brains show damage from concussions
Aspirin 'could cut liver damage'
Sex drive link to prostate cancer
Vitamin D 'is mental health aid'
A Sixth N.F.L. Player’s Brain Is Found to Have Degenerative Disease
New York Health Chief’s New Foe - Salt in Packaged Foods
Vital Signs - Behavior - Electricity to Brain May Aid Motor Skills
Multiple sclerosis 'reversed' with stem cell therapy - health
Disorder linked to high levels of testosterone in womb
Sound and no fury | The Economist
Single gene fuels overeating risk
Well - National Safety Council Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers
Paul Offit's Book "Autism's False Prophets" Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade
Another reason for a good night's sleep: achoo!
HRT 'can shrink women's brains'
Novelties - ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ Revisited - The Pill That Navigates
Irradiation of Food Puts Consumers on Edge
Gastric 'condoms' could help obese avoid surgery - tech
Peanut Product Recall Took Company Approval
Checking hormone levels may help predict postpartum depression
Genetic mutations behind some mental disorders, Quebec team finds
The Father Factor: How Dad's Age Increases Baby's Risk of Mental Illness
One Of History's Most Famous Brains Goes To The Movies
Summer babies 'tall and strong'
5 Questions - A Surprising Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's
The Origins of Suicidal Brains
What causes schizophrenia?
Mouse brains suggest Ritalin is addictive - life
Marijuana testicular cancer link
Protein reverses Alzheimer's brain damage - health
AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment
Postpartum Psychosis Most Likely In Month After Childbirth
Personal Health - America’s Diet - Too Sweet by the Spoonful
Experts Slam Oprah and Somers' Take on Menopause
Drugs Are Found to Block HIV In Monkeys
Ecstasy's long-term effect revealed - health
Duplication In Genomes May Separate Humans From Apes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/health/research/11arm.html?_r=2&ref=science
More smokers butt out when paid: study
Obesity During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Birth Defects
Cure for the Common Cold? Not Yet, but Possible
Court Says Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism
Birth of Octuplets Puts Focus on Fertility Industry and Risks
Medicare Blow to Virtual Colonoscopies
New Look at Food Safety After Peanut Tainting
Peanut Products Sent Out Before Tests
Sanofi Drug Found Promising for Heart Ailment
Music can take the pain away, study finds
2nd-hand smoke, cognitive impairment linked: study
'Anti-phobia pill' breaks link between memory and fear - health
Some Find Hope for a Shift in Drug Policy
Picture Emerging on Genetic Risks of IVF
Well - Vitamin Pills - A False Hope?
Sponge’s Secret Weapon Restores Antibiotics’ Power
Beta-blockers Erase Emotion Of Fearful Memories
Possible Genetic Flag For Brain Cancer
Alzheimer's study finds parental link
Crestor shows gains in reducing stroke risk
Lifestyle 'doubles stroke risk'
Heart Stents Found as Effective as Bypass for Many Patients
Hope over peanut allergy 'cure'
Child abuse leaves lasting 'scars' on DNA
FDA OK's implant to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder
Warning over child ear infections
Technology
Iran 'fires second space rocket'
India moon craft hit by heat rise
Think tank calls for 'home MOTs'
Nasa jubilant at urine solution
Apple made to drop iPhone advert
Actor robots take Japanese stage
The Age of Grainy Web Videos Has Come to an End - YouTube Turns on HD
PlayStation home opens its doors
Don't be 404, know the tech slang
The mouse hits 40-year milestone
Virtual world for Muslims debuts
Spore at top of the piracy charts
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
Novelties - The Ride Board, Reborn on the iPhone
D-Wave Arms ‘Smoking Gun’ Proof of Quantum Computer - Bits Blog
Observatory - Growing More Corn for Ethanol Makes Pest Control Harder
Basics - There’s Lots of Tech Help, Yes, on the Internet
Japan Turns to Technology to Lift Fishing Industry
Britannica reaches out to the web
Pope launches Vatican on YouTube
Pope praises Galileo's astronomy
Apple's first Macintosh turns 25
iPhone gets a touch screen rival
Karaoke voted 'worst invention ever'
Microsoft steps up browser battle
Google plans to make PCs history
Basics - Sharing Selectively on Social Networking Sites
Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide
YouTube Said to Be Close to Video Deal With William Morris
When Talking on the Phone May Endanger a Child
Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages
Google Earth Goes Deep With Ocean Simulations
Westchester County Turns Cooking Oil Into Fuel
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Tweet
Did Google Just Kill All the Other Mobile Social Networks?
U.S.-Russian Satellite Collision Sends Debris Flying
Cycling Enters Electronic Age With Gear-Shifting System
Utility Looks to Mojave Desert for Solar Power
Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store
Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones
TG Daily - Report: Windows losing market share fast to Mac and Linux
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
MRI modified for better images
Basics - Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems
Parabolic Templat
From the Desk of David Pogue - Apple Recasts iMovie With Improved Features
A New BlackBerry Curve Loaded With Features
P1 Pico Projector Stands Out From a Small Crowd
Friday Tip of the Week: Read It Later for Firefox - Gadgetwise Blog
Fabled City of Atlantis Spotted on Google Earth? - Bits Blog
Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy?
Chicago Links Street Cameras to Its 911 Network
Facebook Backtracks on Use Terms
Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter - Interactive Graphic
'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy
Nasa delays space shuttle launch
Hackers target Xbox Live players
TED on porn, malaria and robots
British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips
Upgrade to Warning System on Tsunamis Is Going Slowly
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