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	Trapping Carbon Dioxide Underground: Can We Do It? In a policy address last week, President Barack Obama made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States a key priority in the nation's fight against climate change. Now, a newly released geological report points to a promising way to cut down on the amount of harmful carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere: inject and store it inside rocks deep underground. Read More » Large Antarctic Crater Created by Underground Flood The buried lakes under Antarctica's ice cap can unleash massive floods, just like glacial lakes on land, scientists are starting to realize. One recent deluge sent as much water as is in Scotland's Loch Ness flowing under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near the Cook Ice Shelf, a new study reports. Read More » Vote for the Best Summer Books on Science Vote for the Best Summer Books on Science Read More » Russia Halts Proton Rocket Launches After Explosive Crash Russia has temporarily suspended upcoming launches of its Proton-M rocket in the wake of Monday's high-profile mishap, according to media reports. Read More » IVF Linked to Slightly Higher Rate of Mental Retardation Twins and triplets conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) may have a slightly higher risk of mental retardation compared with children conceived without fertility treatments, according to a new study. Read More » Type 2 Diabetes More Common Among Low-Income Families Being born into a low-income family may mean worse health later in life. Research has shown that those with low incomes are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than their richer peers, but the reason for this link has remained unclear. Read More » Seeing Space Shuttle Atlantis Fills Reporter with Inspiration ... and Regret Seeing Atlantis on public display is both exhilarating and sad. The retired space shuttle orbiter officially went on view Saturday (June 29) at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as part of a new $100 million exhibition. Read More » How the Moon Affects the Nocturnal World Plenty of myths and fables have tried to explain the loony effects the moon seems to have on animals, but far fewer scientific reports have formally addressed the issue. Now, in a comprehensive review, scientists have found the indirect, and sometimes direct, ways the lunar cycle drives animal behaviors. Read More » Americans Spend 23 Hours Per Week Online, Texting Staying up-to-date on emails, social media and other means of online communication is a bigger time requirement than people may realize: New research has found that the average user spends 23 hours a week emailing, texting and using social media and other forms of online communication.  Read More » Mars Rover Curiosity Captures Video of Martian Moonrise One of Mars' two tiny moons climbs high into the Red Planet sky in an otherworldly new video recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover. Read More » Astronaut In Space Drives Robot on Earth, a First NASA transformed the International Space Station into a command center for a robot on Earth this month for a first-of-its-kind test drive of the technology and skills needed to remotely operate robots on the moon, Mars or an asteroid. Read More » Breast Cancer Gene Testing: Most Moms Tell Kids Results Most mothers who undergo genetic testing for breast cancer discuss the results with their children, a new study finds. Read More » Strange Eats: Scientists Who Snack on Their Research A tube of saggy, bacteria-filled flesh, the deep-sea tubeworm displays a uniquely unappetizing appearance. But marine biologist Peter Girguis and his colleagues tried a morsel anyway. Read More » Record Number of Single Dads Head US Households Single dads are on the rise in the United States, heading a record 8 percent of American households with kids, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center. Read More » How to Pack for an Arctic Summer Expedition For a team of paleontologists, this summer's destination isn't a tropical island or a theme park, but a barren part of the Canadian Arctic accessible only by helicopter. So, what do you pack when planning to spend about three weeks in the wilderness hunting fossils, in a place so remote that transportation can cost $2,000 per hour? Read More » How Human Brains Could Be Hacked Like computers, human brains may be vulnerable to hackers. Technology is already allowing scientists to read people's thoughts and even plant new ones in the brain. Read More » Sun Unleashes Solar Fireworks Preview for July Fourth The sun fired off an intense solar flare Wednesday (July 3), giving NASA scientists a solar preview to the Fourth of July holiday in the United States. Read More » Scientists create human liver from stem cells By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time created a functional human liver from stem cells derived from skin and blood and say their success points to a future where much-needed livers and other transplant organs could be made in a laboratory. While it may take another 10 years before lab-grown livers could be used to treat patients, the Japanese scientists say they now have important proof of concept that paves the way for more ambitious organ-growing experiments. ... Read More » Why H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Arose So Quickly The H7N9 bird flu virus appears to be particularly well adapted to jump from birds to people, a new study from China finds. Read More » Chimp Genetic History Stranger Than Humans' The most comprehensive catalog of great-ape genome diversity to date offers insight into primate evolution, revealing chimpanzees have a much more complex genetic history than humans. Read More » 5 Dazzling Facts About Fireworks Fireworks have a history going back to ancient China, long before the Founding Fathers led the United States to independence. But patriotic pyrotechnics have become deeply ingrained in the American tradition, with huge annual shows planned from New York Harbor to San Francisco Bay. Read More » Tiny Human Liver Built from a Cocktail of Cells Stem cells have been used by scientists in Japan to create tiny but working human livers, with complex networks of blood vessels. Read More »
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	New mechanisms in memory storage: piRNAs and epigenetics Christopher D. Landry, Eric R. Kandel, Priyamvada Rajasethupathy. • Epigenetics offers new insights into mechanisms of long-term memory storage. • What provides spatiotemporal specificity of epigenetic regulation during memory? .... Read More »
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