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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Did Archaeologists Find a Piece of Jesus' Cross? Archaeologists working at the site of an ancient church in Turkey believe they may have found a relic of the cross of Jesus. Read More » Masked Melanoma: Cancerous Mole Hidden Behind Tattoo When a 29-year-old man in Germany decided to get his tattoo removed, he also ended up removing a mole, hidden within the colorful designs, which turned out to be cancer, according to a report of his case. Read More » Greenland Icebergs May Have Triggered 'Big Freeze' In a warming world, what could cause temperatures to suddenly plummet across the Northern Hemisphere? Scientists have tried to answer this question for decades, ever since they discovered geological and biological evidence for the "Big Freeze." Read More » Cosmetic Surgery Subtracts Years, Doesn't Add Beauty A face-lift or eyelid lift may make you look slightly younger, but not any more attractive, a new study suggests. Read More » Acetaminophen Must Now Carry Warning of Skin Reactions, FDA Says The common pain reliever acetaminophen can, in rare cases, cause serious skin reactions, the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers today. Read More » 3D Printing at Home: Small Savings Will Add Up 3D printing may be heralded for the ability to print everything from body parts to prosthetics, but the true breakthrough for the technology will come from the ability to print much simpler products, one researcher predicts. Read More » Real-Life Barbie? Model Created Look to Spread Beliefs A young Russian model who reportedly spent a half-million dollars to turn herself into a real-life Barbie doll is indeed quite real and not the result of a computer-generated image. Read More » Fossil of Dinosaur Death Match Headed for Auction A well-preserved fossil of two dinosaurs locked in a deadly battle is expected to go for $7 million to $9 million at auction later this year, but the sale is already brewing controversy. Read More » Incredible Technology: How to Explore Jupiter's Moon Europa Jupiter's icy moon Europa is shrouded in mystery. Read More » Ancient Feathered Shield Discovered in Peru Temple Hidden in a sealed part of an ancient Peruvian temple, archaeologists have discovered a feathered shield dating back around 1,300 years. Read More » Brilliant Meteor Shower and Comet to Grace August Night Sky August could be a banner month for skywatchers, weather permitting. Read More » Summer Camp Trades Campfires for Cybersecurity (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Energy Efficiency Making Good on its Promise (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » 13 Tips for Staying Hydrated in the Summer Heat (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Is It Really 'Gluten-Free'? FDA Sets New Limits People with celiac disease can now trust that foods labeled "gluten-free" are safe for them to eat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says. Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Editorial Board Read More » Toward a cross-species understanding of empathy Jaak Panksepp, Jules B. Panksepp. • Signs of empathy have been observed in many mammals, including laboratory rodents. • 'Primal empathy' utilizes the seven basic emotional systems of the mammalian br.... Read More » Current insights into the C9orf72 repeat expansion diseases of the FTLD/ALS spectrum Marc Cruts, Ilse Gijselinck, Tim Van Langenhove, Julie van der Zee, Christine Van Broeckhoven. • C9orf72 repeat expansions are the most frequent cause of FTLD/ALS spectrum diseases. • Expanded C9orf72 repeats are associated with diverse neurologic.... Read More » 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 » Novel pathogenic pathways in diabetic neuropathy Jennifer Zenker, Dan Ziegler, Roman Chrast. • Glial cells play a critical role in maintenance of axonal integrity and function. • Diabetes mellitus modifies axon–glia interactions at nodal areas of PNS nerves.<.... Read More » Changing the tune: plasticity and adaptation of retrograde signals Karl J. Iremonger, Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin, Jaideep S. Bains. • Retrograde signaling can be modified by a diverse array of intracellular signaling pathways. • Retrograde signals interact with other neurotransmitters to determine.... Read More » Spikes and ribbon synapses in early vision Tom Baden, Thomas Euler, Matti Weckström, Leon Lagnado. • The retina of vertebrates and invertebrates encodes visual signals with both spikes and graded signals. • In vertebrates, 'digitization' of the visual signal begins.... Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) North Pole 'Lake' Vanishes Like a politician whose peccadillos lead to "family time," the North Pole lake has had its fill of Internet notoriety. The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe. Read More » SpaceX wins bid to launch Canadian radar satellites By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies was selected to launch a trio of Canadian radar satellites aboard a single Falcon 9 rocket, the company announced on Tuesday. The California-based firm, also known as SpaceX, already is flying NASA cargo to the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research outpost that flies about 250 miles above Earth. Owned and operated by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, the company is also working on a space taxi to fly astronauts to the orbital outpost. A relative newcomer to the U.S. ... Read More » Mothballed NASA telescope may get new life as asteroid hunter By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - NASA is considering re-activating a mothballed space telescope to help find asteroids that could be on a collision course with Earth, according to a senior U.S. space agency official. Launched in December 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, telescope spent about a year taking pictures for an all-sky map. With its infrared detectors, WISE was able to peer through thick layers of dust and see even relatively dim objects such as cool brown dwarf stars in great detail. ... Read More » NASA pushing to keep 'space taxi' competition going By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is pressing ahead with a program to fly its astronauts on commercial spaceships despite budget uncertainties that threaten to undermine a heated competition for its business. Since 2010, when the U.S. space agency begin partnering with private companies interested in developing space taxis, and May 2014, when the current phase of the so-called Commercial Crew initiative ends, NASA expects to have spent about $1.5 billion on the program. ... Read More » Need a Job? Volunteer Giving back to the community is one way job seekers can boost their chances of finding work, new research shows. Read More » Science of Summer: How Is Ice Cream Made? The ultimate summer treat is, arguably, ice cream. Some 1.5 billion gallons of ice cream and other related frozen desserts are made every year in the United States, with production peaking (as one might expect) in the sultry summer months, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. Read More » Unusual Sexual Fixation: Man Aroused by Farts If "Brad" had been born a century earlier, he may never have found others who share his preferences. But the Internet is a magnet for sexual confessions. Read More » Sex After Childbirth: Both Parents Have Changes in Desire Having a child not only affects the sexual desire of the woman who gives birth, but also her partner's, a new study suggests. Read More » More Than Half of Stranded Bottlenose Dolphins May Be Deaf In waters from Florida to the Caribbean, dolphins are showing up stranded or entangled in fishing gear with an unusual problem: They can't hear. Read More » Girl's Brown Recluse Spider Bite Turns Into Open Wound When a little girl's spider bite developed into a nasty open wound, doctors had to perform two procedures to remove blackened, dead tissue from her leg, researchers say. Read More » Hubble Telescope Helps Solve Galaxy-Evolution Mystery New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. Read More » Coffin-Within-a-Coffin Biggest Find of Richard III Dig A month-long dig has come to an end at the site where King Richard III's grave was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester, England, last summer. Read More » Eating Fish During Pregnancy Not Linked to Autism Children who are exposed in utero to low levels of mercury, such as from fish consumed during pregnancy, are not at an increased risk of developing autismlike behaviors, a new study finds. Read More » HFCs? Curbing Them Is Key to Climate-Change Strategy (Op-Ed) Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Have We Learned the Lessons from Deepwater Horizon? (Op-Ed) Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC, served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and holds a leadership role in several environmental organizations. This article is adapted from a recent post to Switchboard Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Nearly 100 Animals Rescued from Squalor at Rural Homestead (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » How Many Kids Are Up-to-Date With Vaccines? Most kindergarteners are up-to-date with their vaccines, but data from the state level might mask clusters of unvaccinated children, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More » Wish You Were a Morning Person? Try a Camping Trip A weeklong camping trip can help reset a person's internal biological clock, so that it will be easier to wake up in the morning and feel more alert, a new study suggests. Read More » Oxygen Brought Earliest Carnivores to Life Without oxygen, there would be no carnivores. Without carnivores, there would be no Cambrian explosion, the stunning evolutionary burst of diversity in species and body forms that began 540 million years ago. Read More » Deaths from Guns: Homicide Rates Drop, But Suicide Rises Rates of gun homicide have declined in recent years in U.S. cities, but rates of suicide by firearm are on the rise, according to a new report. Read More » Sweet Success: Chocolate Structure Whets Appetite for Innovation A delectable design aimed at using innovative materials in architecture has led to what might be a cocoa lover's wildest dream: a pavilion made entirely out of chocolate. Read More » Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' Uncovered Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women. Read More » NASA Completes First Review of Asteroid-Capture Concepts NASA has conducted its first internal review of ideas for its ambitious asteroid-capture mission, agency officials announced Wednesday (July 31). Read More » Bullied Kids More Likely to Commit Crimes As Adults People who were bullied throughout childhood and adolescence are more likely than others to engage in delinquent or criminal behavior later in life, a new study finds. Read More »
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