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	Epigenetic layers and players underlying neurodevelopment Janine M. LaSalle, Weston T. Powell, Dag H. Yasui. • Epigenetic modifications are long-lived layers of past transcriptional events. • The relationship of DNA methylation to transcription depends on genomic context. Read More »
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	Southern Europeans More African Than Thought Southern Europeans get a significant portion of their genetic ancestry from North Africa, new research suggests. Read More » Online Dating: The Secret to a Happy Marriage? Couples who meet online and get married are slightly less likely to divorce than couples who first meet face-to-face, new research finds. Read More » Autonomous Rovers to Compete for $1.5 Million NASA Prize NASA is ready to award $1.5 million in prizes next week for robotic rovers that can skillfully navigate mock alien terrain and collect samples all by themselves. Read More » Hunt for Closest Alien Planet Gets Rare Boost From Stellar Alignment The stars will align for planet hunters twice in the next three years, allowing them to probe the nearest star to our own solar system for Earth-size alien worlds. Read More » Earliest Evidence of French Winemaking Discovered? An ancient limestone platform dating back to 425 B.C is the oldest wine press ever discovered on French soil. Read More » Killer Bee Attack: Science Explains Man's Death A Texas man died after being attacked by a swarm of Africanized honeybees, sometimes called "killer bees." Read More » LA Pollution Is Losing Its Sting, Study Shows An "eye-stinging" air pollutant in Los Angeles is decreasing due to stricter vehicle emissions standards in Southern California and the United States, a new study that examined emissions of chemicals in the City of Angels found. Read More » Testosterone Prescriptions Nearly Triple in Last Decade The percentage of middle-aged men in the United States taking testosterone to treat symptoms of low testosterone, or "low T," has increased substantially in recent years, a new study suggests. Read More » Want to Live Longer? Eat a Plant-Based Diet To stave off death by a few extra years, a vegetarian diet appears to be superior to a non-vegetarian one, according to results of a study of more than 73,000 people published today (June 3) in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Read More » AIDS Exhibit Explores Early Years of Epidemic NEW YORK - Young people today do not know a world without AIDS, and many may not be aware of the confusion, fear and panic that surrounded its emergence as a completely new disease. Read More » Sunscreen Can Slow Skin Aging, Study Suggests One secret to younger-looking skin may be as simple as remembering to slather on sunscreen every day, a new study suggests. Read More » Storm-Chaser Deaths a 'Wake-Up Call,' Researcher Says Shock waves rippled through the overlapping communities of meteorologists and storm chasers over the weekend with the news that veteran tornado-chasing scientist Tim Samaras, his son Paul and chase partner Carl Young died after running into a powerful twister near El Reno, Okla., on Friday (May 31). Read More » Ghostly Seal & Sunlit Shark Make Photo Splash An ethereal seal emerges from a forest of kelp in the winning photograph from the 2013 Annual Underwater Photography Contest held by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science. Read More » Earth Living Is Tough for Astronaut Used to Space In a few moments, astronaut Chris Hadfield changed from an orbiting Man of Steel-type to one who needs to heal from microgravity's effects. Read More » Dwarf Star Blasts out Stunningly Powerful Flares A nearby star smaller than Jupiter punches far above its weight, firing off surprisingly intense flares that regularly triple its total brightness, scientists say. Read More » Brain Surgery Is an Option for Patients with Severe OCD, Study Suggests A type of brain surgery appears to be a relatively effective treatment for people with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) who have not responded to other treatments, a new study suggests. Read More » Solar Plane Dodges Stormy Weather En Route to St. Louis A solar-powered airplane is poised to complete its longest flight yet — from Dallas to St. Louis — in spite of stormy weather that threatened this leg of the aircraft's historic cross-country journey. Read More » The Key Salary Negotiation Tactic That Works If you are going to be asking for a raise anytime soon, you better come to the bargaining table prepared and informed, new research suggests. Read More » Did Oral Sex Really Cause Michael Douglas' Cancer? It appears that actor Michael Douglas had every major risk factor of throat cancer: He's reportedly engaged in excessive alcohol and tobacco use, and now he says he acquired HPV, or h papillomavirus, via oral sex. Is there a way to know which one ended up getting him sick? Read More » Women Willing to Delay Antibiotics for UTIs More women than previously thought may be willing to delay taking antibiotics to treat a urinary tract infection in order to reduce the potentially unneeded use of antibiotics, a new Dutch study shows. Read More » Why Hands-Free Phones May Be Unsafe for Drivers Voice-controlled texting and other hands-free tools may seem like safe options for using a cellphone while driving, but one researcher warns that the brain can't safely manage both tasks at once. Read More » Brain Says Guilty! Neural Imaging May Nab Criminals NEW YORK — Someday soon, judgments of guilt or innocence in a courtroom might be determined from a brain scan, scientists say. Read More » Health Care Reform: Analytics May Offer a Cure (Op-Ed) Read More » Multiverse or Universe? Physicists Debate NEW YORK — Whether you believe our universe is unique or one of many coexisting realities, there's a scientific model that backs up your views. Cosmologists on both sides debated the issue June 1 here at the "Multiverse: One Universe or Many?" panel at the World Science Festival. Read More » New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark-Matter Mystery, Scientists Say An intriguing hint of a certain type of gamma-ray light at the center of the Milky Way might be a product of elusive dark matter — or it might not be. For the past several years, scientists have debated whether the light is really there, and what it means. Now, researchers are petitioning the management team of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, the observatory that saw the light, to change its observing strategy to determine once and for all whether the signal really exists. Read More » Ocean Expedition Sets Sail to Probe Glacier Changes Mountain glaciers are like giant sandpaper blocks, scouring their valley homes as they advance and retreat. This scrubbing tends to purge any past record of a glacier's size, foiling scientists' efforts to model the extent of mountain ice during past climate shifts. Read More » Are Humans Getting Smarter or Dumber? Is humanity getting smarter or dumber with time? The answer may be both. Read More » China's latest manned space mission to launch this month BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its next manned rocket in the middle of this month, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, state media said on Monday, the latest stage of an ambitious plan to build a space station. The Shenzhou 10 space ship and its rocket had already been moved to the launch area at a remote site in the Gobi desert, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Once in orbit, the Shenzhou 10 will link up with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module, which was moved into the correct orbiting position last month. ... Read More » 400-Million-Year-Old 'Spiny Shark' Fossil Found The fossilized remains of a 408-million-year-old fish species have been found in Spain, a study reports. Read More » Did Humans Really Eat Neanderthals? No clear evidence suggests modern humans ate Neanderthals, much less that they did so enough to drive Neanderthals to extinction, despite recent claims from scientists in Spain. Read More » Rocket Launch Tonight Will Be Visible from US East Coast Skies across the Mid-Atlantic states are expected to be crystal clear tonight, and if all goes according to plan, the switchboards of local radio and television stations might see a sudden bevy of calls sometime between 11 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. EDT from people caught off guard by the sight of a sounding rocket. The booster will be carrying instruments to study when the first stars and galaxies formed in the universe and how brightly they burned their nuclear fuel. Read More » Normal or Not? When One's Gender Identity Causes Distress The latest edition of the mental health manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose disorders reveals a change in thinking on gender identity. The perspective change is similar to a decision made in 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association eliminated homosexuality from its disorders' list. Read More » How to Shave Your Head in Space: Astronaut Video Shaving your head is the simplest of haircuts here on Earth, but it presents some special challenges in space, as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy recently demonstrated. Read More » Saturn-Like Alien Planet Found by Little Telescope INDIANAPOLIS — Tiny telescopes in Arizona and South Africa have spotted a Saturn-like planet in orbit around a star about 700 light-years from Earth. Read More » Planets Found by Kepler Spacecraft Likely Larger Than Thought INDIANAPOLIS — A large number of worlds found by NASA's Kepler alien planet-hunting space telescope are probably significantly larger than scientists previously estimated, a new study suggests. Read More »
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