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• Finding ET may require giant robotic leap
• Killing in war linked with suicidal thoughts among Vietnam veterans
• Kids get more active when given more toy choices
• Speed and ecstasy associated with depression in teens
• Death knell for dark matter theories?
• Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity
• Mammals didn’t always eat they way they do now
• Medical neutron source goes chip-size
• Curbing College Binge Drinking: What Role Do ‘Alcohol Expectancies’ Play?
• Joint failures potentially linked to oral bacteria
• Carrot but no stick for a healthy child
• Dropping the bomb on tumors
• Exercise, counseling, meditation make brain better
• Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments
• Belief in God strongest in US and Catholic countries

Finding ET may require giant robotic leap Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:35 PM PDT Autonomous, self-replicating robots — exobots — are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps [...]

Killing in war linked with suicidal thoughts among Vietnam veterans Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:33 PM PDT The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led [...]

Kids get more active when given more toy choices Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:33 PM PDT In an age when even preschoolers have electronic toys and devices, many parents wonder how to get their children to [...]

Speed and ecstasy associated with depression in teens Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:32 PM PDT A five year study conducted with thousands of local teenagers by University of Montreal researchers reveals that those who used [...]

Death knell for dark matter theories? Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:53 AM PDT The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for [...]

Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:31 AM PDT Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) have mathematically shown that particles charged in a magnetic field can [...]

Mammals didn’t always eat they way they do now Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT The feeding habits of mammals haven’t always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores. Some groups of mammals almost [...]

Medical neutron source goes chip-size Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:21 AM PDT It was a figurative whack on the head that started Sandia National Laboratories distinguished technical staff member Juan Elizondo-Decanini thinking [...]

Curbing College Binge Drinking: What Role Do ‘Alcohol Expectancies’ Play? Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:18 AM PDT Researchers at The Miriam Hospital say interventions targeting what college students often see as the pleasurable effects of alcohol – [...]

Joint failures potentially linked to oral bacteria Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:18 AM PDT The culprit behind a failed hip or knee replacements might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from [...]

Carrot but no stick for a healthy child Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:17 AM PDT Obesity among children has long been a rising problem in large parts of the world. Parents play a crucial role [...]

Dropping the bomb on tumors Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:07 AM PDT Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case [...]

Exercise, counseling, meditation make brain better Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Practices like physical exercise, certain forms of psychological counseling and meditation can all change brains for the better, and these [...]

Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:59 AM PDT What worker bees do depends on how old they are. A worker a few days old will become a nurse [...]

Belief in God strongest in US and Catholic countries Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:56 AM PDT International surveys about the depth of people’s belief in God reveal vast differences among nations, ranging from 94 percent of [...]

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