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Retired Research Chimps Get Second Chance at Life

Plans announced this week by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to retire most of its 360 research chimpanzees introduces the question of where these chimps will go. The answer has yet to be determined.


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Researchers See Through Walls With 'Wi-Vi'

Want X­ray vision like the man of steel? A technology that lets you see behind walls could soon be built in to your cell phone.


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Nanoparticles Help Scientists Tell Left From Right

Have trouble telling left from right? Believe it not, so do molecular scientists. But a new method that amplifies the difference between right-handed and left-handed molecules could make things easier for scientists and lead to the development of new nanomaterials, optical sensors and pharmaceutical drugs.


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Weekend Stargazing: Celestial Scorpion Reigns in Night Sky

There's a giant scorpion hovering overhead, but have no fear. This creepy crawler is actually the constellation Scorpius. It's all sparkle and no sting.


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Building PayPal Galactic for Off-World Payments Will Take Years

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Developing a cosmic cash system to meet the needs of future space tourists and interplanetary settlers is a complicated task that will take several years to complete, leaders of the new project say.


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Video Catches Exotic Bird Laying Eggs

Secret cameras captured rare footage of a southern cassowary laying eggs at the Edinburgh Zoo for the first time in 27 years.


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Ob-Gyn Shortage Is Going to Get Worse (Op-Ed)

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NASA picks Florida agency to take over shuttle landing strip

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space shuttle's idled landing site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials said on Friday. Terms of the agreement, which have not yet been finalized, were not disclosed, but Space Florida has made no secret about its desire to take over facilities no longer needed by NASA to develop a multi-user commercial spaceport, somewhat akin to an airport or seaport. ...


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'White House Down': What It Takes to Protect the President

Hollywood seems to have the ingredients needed for a blockbuster disaster movie down to a science: lots of explosions, action-packed fight sequences and nefarious criminals laying siege to the government, a city or the world.

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Why Women Are More Likely to Be Bisexual

Women may be more "hetero-flexible," or be primarily attracted to men with some same sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women, a new study has proposed.

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NASA Space Shuttle Runway Gets New Life as Commercial Spaceport

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The famous seaside space shuttle runway here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center may have a second life soon as a launch and landing spot for a whole new type of space mission: tourist flights.


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Social Lemurs Have More 'Street Smarts,' Study Finds

Lemurs that come from big tribes and live in large groups exhibit more "social smarts" than those that live with only a few companions, finds a new study that suggests the size of a primate's social network could influence its social intelligence.


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Chilean Mummies Reveal Ancient Nicotine Habit

The hair of mummies from the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile reveals the people in the region had a nicotine habit spanning from at least 100 B.C. to A.D. 1450.


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Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on Public Display in Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis, the final orbiter among NASA's winged fleet to fly in space, launched on its new mission Saturday (June 29) as the centerpiece of a $100 million tourist attraction in Florida.


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Leading light in science, Italy's 'lady of the stars' Hack dies

By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack, a popular science writer, public intellectual and the first woman to lead an astronomical observatory in Italy, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Known as the "lady of the stars", Hack's research contributed to the spectral classification of many groups of stars, and the asteroid 8558 Hack is named after her. ...

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Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit Opens with Support from Souvenirs

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It would not be a proper Florida theme park attraction if you didn't exit through the gift shop.


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Leading light in science, Italy's "lady of the stars" Hack dies

By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack, a popular science writer, public intellectual and the first woman to lead an astronomical observatory in Italy, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Known as the "lady of the stars", Hack's research contributed to the spectral classification of many groups of stars, and the asteroid 8558 Hack is named after her. ...

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Emerging role for astroglial networks in information processing: from synapse to behavior

Ulrike Pannasch, Nathalie Rouach.

• Astrocytes are organized in extensive and plastic gap-junction mediated networks.
• We evaluate their role in synaptic activity, neuronal circuit dynamics and behav....

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Neurons and circuits for odor processing in the piriform cortex

John M. Bekkers, Norimitsu Suzuki.

• The piriform cortex (PC) is critical for olfactory processing in mammals.
• The PC is increasingly studied as a model circuit for cortical sensory processing.
•....

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Steady or changing? Long-term monitoring of neuronal population activity

Henry Lütcke, David J. Margolis, Fritjof Helmchen.

• We review in vivo chronic extracellular recording and two-photon calcium-imaging studies that address the question of the stability of neuronal population activi....

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Metabolic signaling by lactate in the brain

L. Felipe Barros.

• Synaptic activity is accompanied by a transient rise in brain tissue lactate concentration.
• The rise in lactate is explained by acute stimulation of glycolysis in....

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Autophagy in axonal and dendritic degeneration

Yi Yang, Michael Coleman, Lihui Zhang, Xiaoxiang Zheng, Zhenyu Yue.

• Neuritic degeneration is a pathological feature of many neurodegenerative diseases.
• Autophagy regulates protein and organelle homeostasis in axons and dendrites.<....

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Development of human embryonic stem cell therapies for age-related macular degeneration

Amanda-Jayne F. Carr, Matthew J.K. Smart, Conor M. Ramsden, Michael B. Powner, Lyndon da Cruz, Peter J. Coffey.

• Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in older adults. Recent research for treating AMD has focused on replacing the retinal pigmen....

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