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How short fathers affect babies
Fur Color Linked to Dog Personality
Left-handers 'think' more quickly
Genetics of eye colour unlocked
Biologists find biological clock for smell in mice
Don't Whistle While You Work
Newsroom Special Reports
Today@UCI: Press Releases:
All itches not created equal -- Different parts of brain activated depending on cause
Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
Rogue theory of smell gets a boost - Physicists check out a bold hypothesis for how the nose works.
Built in compass helps bats find their way home - Big brown bats usemagnetic field to navigate long distance.
The mutation that takes away pain - Studies of rare disorder shed light on pain mechanism.
Fat people harbour 'fat' microbes - Your gut bacteria may help to determine your holiday weight gain.
Dragon virgin births startle zoo keepers - Non-sexual reproduction could lower the fitness of captive animals.
Genomic atlas of the mouse brain revealed
Why altruism paid off for our ancestors
Unleash your inner bloodhound – start sniffing
When Science Sniffs Around the Kitchen
Clue to mental illness all in the nose
The Truth Behind Women's Brains
Humans Migrated From Africa 'Recently'
Parrot Talk More Clever Than Thought
Liberalism and neurology | Free to choose?
Big bird-brains boost beneficial behaviours
US plans permanent base on Moon
Psychopaths' brains 'different'
Longevity gene keeps mind sharp
Scan shows how brains plot future
Planet hunter readies for launch
BAustralia ponders climate future
Big ice shelf's disappearing act
Hungry ancients 'turned cannibal'
Mars rovers are taught new tricks
Robotic baby seal wins top award
College harnesses cow pat power
Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow -- A 10-year study of procrastination provides insights into--and a formula for--human motivation
Fido Can Place Your Face
Physics news Update 783
Dark Energy at Redshift Z=1
The triumph of unreason?
Gene tied to longevity also preserves ability to think clearly
Activation of brain region predicts altruism
Estrogen curbs appetite in same way as the hormone leptin
Early-to-Bed Mouse Illuminates Workings of Circadian Clock
Ancient Cave Art Full of Teenage Graffiti
Animal researchA matter of life and death : Article : Nature
Table of contents : Nature
Octopus skin yields bright discovery - Natural proteins act as super reflectors.
Slim waists may top the list - An hourglass waistline has impressed men for centuries.
Climate change alters seals' sexual selection - earth
Bats speak up to avoid a jam
NIDA Researchers Complete Unprecedented Scan of Human Genome That May Help Unlock the Genetic Contribution to Tobacco Addiction
Experience Sculpts Brain Circuitry to Build Resiliency to Stress
Scientists Predict Carbon Dioxide Emissions Will Reduce Density of Earth's Outermost Atmosphere by 2017
A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School
A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School
Always Revealing, Human Skin Is an Anthropologist’s Map
Magical Thinking: Why Do People Cling to Odd Rituals?
Of Gay Sheep, Modern Science and Bad Publicity
Fish Know Who's Boss
Caverns give up huge fossil haul
Perchance to Hibernate
China admits to climate failings
Blair sees hope of climate deal
Antarctic hill surprises experts
Immune system 'brakes' found
Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'
Evangelicals, Scientists Join on Warming
A Coalition for Firm Limit on Emissions
Melting of glaciers 'speeds up'
Frozen sea may harbour Mars life
Brazil nuts' path to preservation
'Hobbit' human 'is a new species'
Queensland to drink waste water
Prince wins environmental award
'Bottleneck' slows brain activity
Menstrual mood swings may have a use after all - sex - 29 January 2007 - New Scientist
Mutant gene shatters nerves
Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare
'Terror birds' never met humans
Wild wolves 'good for ecosystems'
Gay sheep and human destiny
Brain’s Reward Circuit Activity Ebbs and Flows with a Woman’s Hormonal Cycle
Domestic Violence in the Jungle
Repressed Memory
Male-killer makes female butterflies promiscuous
A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects - New York Times
16 Mind-Blowing Microphotographs of Living Things -- Prize-winning microviews of everything from mouse retinas to slime mold:
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DNA clue to presidential puzzle
Prehistoric lovers found locked in eternal embrace
Haggard Pronounced ‘Completely Heterosexual’
NPR : Can Thoughts and Action Change Our Brains?
NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow to Discuss New Data Showing Similarities in the Processes Underlying Craving for Food and Drugs, February 7, 2007 News Release
Biggest curriculum overhaul at Harvard in 30 years
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Telescope mirror nears completion
Wizardry at Harvard: Physicists Move Light - New York Times
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ingredient in Male Sweat Raises Women's Hormone Levels -- Acting as a pheromone many in other animals, a steroid from male sweat caused the elevation of a hormone tied to stress and mood in women
BBC NEWS | Health | Why women fall for 'Mr Average'
Common Gene Version Optimizes Thinking–but With a Possible Downside
No sleep means no new brain cells
A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors
Cool clouds turn light to matter
Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
Facial Recognition - Brain - Faces, Faces Everywhere
Sleep well before learning something new - being-human
Oldest chimp tools found in West Africa - Apes could have passed down skills for thousands of years.
Facial Recognition - Brain - Faces, Faces Everywhere
BBC NEWS | Health | Mice cloned from skin stem cells
Evolution of science standards continues in Kansas
Squid vid shows swimming surprise - Pictures from the depths reveal luminous and speedy animal.
Rats isolate their whiskers to feel their way
ScienCentral Video News: Romance Genes
Kansas: Anti-Evolution Guidelines Are Repealed - New York Times
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Light is shed on darkest galaxies
Photos Reveal Mars Had Water Underground - New York Times
Study Questions Prospects for Much Lower Emissions - New York Times
Canada’s House Backs Steep Emission Cuts - New York Times
Antarctic water world uncovered
Rocks reveal Mars' watery past
Brain creates 'new' nerve cells
Action plan for killer asteroids
Creating a 'sulphur screen'
Chimpanzee Stone Age: Finds in Africa rock prehistory of tools:
Brain creates 'new' nerve cells
Nasa's aurora mission blasts off
Robot watches out for rare bird
Action plan for killer asteroids
Astronauts should 'ski the Moon'
'Now or never' for climate action
Google co-founder: Science needs entrepreneurs
Medicine
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Scans 'can predict schizophrenia'
Birth control in good taste
Hysteria Is All in Your Head
Depression often seen with chronic cough
New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'
Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
Antidepressants a Suicide Risk for Young Adults
In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt
Alcohol may offer protection against arthritis
Mental Exercise Helps Maintain Some Seniors’ Thinking Skills
Diabetes breakthrough
Vitamin D may cut multiple sclerosis risk, study finds
New Chemical Is Said to Provide Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease - New York Times
Triplets for woman with two wombs
Researchers 'grow' heart arteries
Prions removed from animal blood - Filtration technique could make transfusions safer, its inventors say.
Magnet Therapy Proves Effective ... in Attracting Your Money
Hopes for Alzheimer's treatment
Women with migraines more likely to have depression
Hormone balance clue to bulimia
Cartoons to aid autistic children
Snap decisions sometimes the best
Featured Articles : Neuroscience Gateway
Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
Scientists Discover a New Risk Factor for Alzheimer's
An ingredient in curry shows promise for treating Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases
Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage
Boosting Brain Power May Be Steps Away, Study Finds That Six Months Of Walking Increased Participants' Memory And Attention Span
'Tobacco pandemic' fuelled by nicotine hike - health
Social status helps you live longer - being-human
Worms may keep multiple sclerosis at bay - Parasitic infections could stop the immune system from self-attack.
'Altruistic' brain region found
Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'
Defence cell genetics unscrambled
Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virus
Teenage pregnancy myth dismissed
Vitamin pill for prostate cancer
Brain cancers shrink in drug test
Folic acid boosts elderly brains
Thinness 'poses miscarriage risk'
Milk gland cancers treatment clue
Fridge magnets 'can be a killer'
New research suggests oxytocin's potential for treatment of two core autism symptom domains
Getting a Grip on the Winter Blues
China Aids patients win damages
Obesity 'to fuel rise in cancers'
Fear centre is shrunken in severely autistic brains - A hyperactive amygdala may cause its own self-destruction.
Study Finds Medication Raises Suicide Risks in Young Adults
New vCJD scare rocks the UK - health - 08 December 2006
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Epilepsy drug treats sleep-related eating disorder
'Social Dementia' Decimates Special Neurons
Drink 'cuts brain injury damage'
Chemical may stop alcohol craving
Quest for battery-free pacemaker
Olive oil 'can cut cancer risk'
Obesity link to gut bug balance
Key to why cancer kills so often
Protein key to parasite potency
Trans Fat Diet
Cloned Beef Safety
Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia
Vehicle fumes 'stunt lung growth'
Stress 'harms brain in the womb'
Brain's 'addiction centre' found
Carbon monoxide may protect against MS symptoms
MRI More Sensitive Than CT in Diagnosing Most Common Form of Acute Stroke, Finds NIH Study
Addiction Subtraction: Brain damage curbs cigarette urge
Braces 'may not boost happiness'
Cancer therapy 'shortens penises'
Gum disease cancer link disputed
Pregnancy caffeine 'reassurance'
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan
Treatment questioned for T.O. and other stars
Edinburgh and East | Scientists shed light on research
Europe's abortion rules
World's oldest person dies at 114
One sleep disorder throws light on another - Treatment based on narcolepsy could promote sleep in insomniacs.
A potential cure for colic.
Vaginal birth boosts risk of baby brain haemorrhage
Schizophrenia tied to low prostate cancer risk
Targeting Tau: Inflammation Study Suggests New Approach for Fighting Alzheimer’s
Early Fix: Prion disease remedied in mice
Depression, loneliness tied to physical ills
Loneliness link with Alzheimer's
Addicts brave withdrawal trial
In Rigorous Test, Talk Therapy Works for Panic Disorders
Repressed memories a recent development? - No one wrote about this condition until the 1800s.
'Low' vCJD death toll from blood
Anaesthetic linked to Alzheimer's
Scientists Learn the Origin of Rogue B Cells
Second person tested for bird flu
FDA Approves Non-Prescription Diet Pill
Autism-spectrum disorder reversed in mice
1 in 150 Children in U.S. Has Autism, New Survey Finds
Autism-like disorder 'reversible'
Why exercise gets harder with age
High copper levels tied to postpartum depression
Survey Puts New Focus on Binge Eating as a Diagnosis
Brain 'cannabis' Parkinson's hope
Menstrual cycle injury risk link
Inner ear implant may bring balance back
NIDA Unveils its First Consumer Publication to Explain the Science of Addiction, Institutes of Health (NIH)
Scientists expose HIV weak spot
Heart risk pinned down for women
Regional Variation Seen in Heart Disease Rate
Fish in pregnancy 'benefits baby'
Viagra used to save baby's life
Most spiking cases 'just drunk'
Original heart hope of Viagra realised
Tests show morphine eases coughs
Women's desks 'harbour more bugs'
Women's desks 'harbour more bugs'
Autism gene breakthrough hailed
Virtual treatment for US troops
Technology
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Britney still top of Yahoo search
Technology | 'Most websites' failing disabled
Magazine | What Alex did next
AMD: New Chips Consume Half the Power of Core 2 Duo
Toshiba Breaks New Record: 100GB For 1.8-Inch HDD
Novell Adds Microsoft's Open XML to OpenOffice
A Virtual Chalkboard For Budding NFL Fans
Skype users to get lie detectors
Dealing with toxic computer waste
Emotion-aware teaching software tracks student attention
H.P. to Report an Advance in Adaptable Circuitry
Record firms sue Russian MP3 site
Safer laptop batteries produced
Social networks top Google search
Toshiba joins European DVD battle
Hydrogen-Powered Lawnmowers?
Study Says Tapping of Granite Could Unleash Energy Source
Researchers Go Molecular in Design of a Denser Chip
Recycled satellite radio planned
Mobiles navigate the future
Nintendo profits boosted by Wii
Chips push through nano-barrier
Recycled satellite radio planned
YouTubers to get ad money share
Hi-def DVD security is bypassed
Net 'backbone' has security patch
The Skype roadmap: Trial and error
Science/Nature | US military looks to 'black ice'
Office 2007, the most annoying computer upgrade since Windows 95.
Vista security claim challenged
In Praise of Braise
Test riding first hydrogen bike
Army Is Going Wrinkle-Free; Velcro Becomes Norm
Hackers attack heart of the net
Apple seeks online music shake-up
Warning over ePassport microchips
Science backs nuclear burial plan
Would free-ranging stop bird flu?
Iraqis use internet to survive war
Microsoft fixes 20 security holes
Digital neighbourhood watch plan
Home network security scrutinised
Microsoft fixes 20 security holes
Daylight-saving bug could foil computers m
Scientists dubious of quantum computer claims
From video gamer to surgery ace? It could happen, study suggests
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
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