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Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer from a form of dementia and other neurological disorders.

Cell phones are increasingly sophisticated — sporting such features as cameras, music players, games, video clips, Internet access and, lest we forget, the capability to phone someone — but these features come at a price: memory.

In the largest and most rigorous study to date investigating how cancer influences divorce, Norwegian researchers have found that marriages are no more likely than normal to break down unless a spouse develops cervical or testicular cancer.

About 42% of fatal car accidents happen at night, according to the European Commission for the Automobile Industry. This figure is extremely worrying bearing in mind that there is about 60% less traffic during at night time.

UFO sightings in the USA, Italy (here a UFO drone – very rare) and China. The anti-Mafia song by Fabrizio Moro entitled ‘Pensa’ (translated meaning ‘think about it’) goes well with the dishonest and mafia-like politics of deception regarding UFO sightings on this planet by the US government over the past 60 years. The governments of France and England have for some time been making public their records and pictures of UFO sightings. The Japanese TV channel shows a replay of the ‘scifi clip’ in slow motion and freeze frames it when the object is closest to the camera.

Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen’s University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts.

NASA and the NSF have developed a body of work over the past 11 years demonstrating successful strategies for recruiting underrepresented minority students to science and engineering fields and supporting their successful completion of science degrees.

What are the “Laws of Nature” composed of? Are they matter or energy?
If not, then what? Do they exist apart from the universe?

Engineers have found a way to turn discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy resource.

Anybody who reads this blog knows that I am deeply skeptical of claims about animal language. Some of the best work on animal language has come from Marc Hauser‘s lab at Harvard. Recently they reported that rhesus monkeys have the cognitive machinery to understand the singular/plural distinction.

Consuming large amounts of caffeine while taking acetaminophen, one of the most widely used painkillers in the United States, could potentially cause liver damage, according to a preliminary laboratory study reported in the Oct. 15 print issue of ACS’ Chemical Research in Toxicology.

Researchers have clarified the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of head and neck cancers, showing that people who stop drinking can significantly reduce their cancer risk.

World Wildlife Fund scientists said today that the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area in central Vietnam underscores the importance of conservation efforts in the ancient tropical forests of the region.

Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly when sprayed into the nose.

For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries. His most recent discovery, which produces billions of neural cells from a few stem cells, could now aid in national security.

Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appetite. Now, a new study finds that women with anorexia have distinct differences in the insulta – the specific part of the brain that is important for recognizing taste – according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh and University of California, San Diego researchers currently on line in advance of publication in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.

Electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts to find the kind of music they want to listen to – without knowing the names of artists or songs.