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Friday, July 26, 2013

Science of the Week--7/26/13

Here are some of the most interesting posts I read on Science Blog this week:

The love hormone oxytocin is two-faced (it makes bad memories stronger)

30-year study finds no link between mercury exposure and autism-like behaviors

Computer chips that mimic the brain in real time

Harvard-MIT team controls genes with light

Evolution not driven by single beneficial mutation, but by group that includes "genetic hitchhikers"

Seeing snow in space: Caltech helps capture the first image of a frosty planetary disk ring

New evidence for warm-blooded dinosaurs

Paper-thin e-skin responds to touch by lighting up

Scientists confirm neutrinos shift between three interchangeable types

Epilepsy in a dish: clues to disease's origins, possible treatment

What if quantum physics worked on a macroscopic level?

First human tests of new biosensor that warns when athletes are about to "hit the wall"

New stem cell gene therapy gives hope to prevent inherited neurological disease

New app puts idle smartphones to work for science






1 comment:

  1. They need a biosensor that warns when athletes are about to hit the steroids.

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