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• Scientists watch brain cells remember

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  Experts said the new study had all but closed the case: For the brain, remembering is a lot like doing.

• Scientists catch cells in the act of remembering

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:17pm EDT

  Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing where an experience is registered and how the brain can re-create it.

• Addiction doesn't discriminate - except when it does

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 6:10pm EDT

  The democratization of addiction may be an appealing message, but it does not reflect reality.

• New technology links European genetics and geography

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New gene chips - devices that test the DNA at sites along the genome - can assess 500,000 of the genome's three billion units at a time. When these differences are added together, a linkage emerges.

• Will it kill you? New charts detail the odds

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New risk charts in a paper published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute provide a broader perspective than most of the risk calculators on the Internet.

• Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Public discussion of climate change is largely reduced to carbon, but other chemicals have large roles in the planet's health, and a growing number of researchers are looking at nitrogen.

• Europeans' genomes reveal their geographic origins

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  There seems to be a geographical pattern to European genetics. By analyzing people's genomes, geneticists can tell roughly where in Europe they come from.

• Do animals grieve over death like we do?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Everywhere in nature, biologists say, are examples of animals behaving as though they were at least vaguely aware of death's brutal supremacy and yet unpersuaded that it had anything to do with them.

• Question of usefulness lingers for cholesterol drug

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Doctors continue to heavily prescribe the cholesterol drug Vytorin, though six years after its approval there is still no proof that the drug helps patients live longer or avoid heart attacks.

• Fish oil outperforms statin in heart failure study

  Posted: August 31st, 2008, 11:23am EDT

  Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research published online in the medical journal The Lancet on Sunday.

• Area of Arctic Ocean ice dwindles

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 4:29pm EDT

  Satellite measurements showed the area had fallen to its second lowest level on record.

• Oversupply of natural gas dulls luster of exploration and production companies

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 7:33am EDT

  Concerns about a supply glut of natural gas in the United States are limiting interest in exploration and production companies that have tantalizingly low valuations

• Technology that outthinks us: A partner or a master?

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:55am EDT

  Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.

• New sphere in exploring the abyss

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:55am EDT

  Scientists are hard at work on the tiny submarine that will replace the legendary Alvin.

• U.S. wind power strangled by antiquated power grid

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:55am EDT

  Expansive American dreams about renewable energy are bumping up against the reality of a dated power grid.

• Secret to a healthy, long life: Good genes, better exercise

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  There is clear evidence that living well - exercising daily and eating properly, even if undertaken later in life - is also the best guarantee of a longer life in good health.

• Crows never seem to forget a face

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  Researchers hypothesize that crows learn to recognize threatening humans both from parents and others in their flock.

• New blood test for ovarian cancer creates concern

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  The test, called OvaSure, has been offered since late June, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and some experts say it has not been proved to work.

• Landfill sites are being viewed as mines with buried riches

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:40pm EDT

  Inspired by high oil prices, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting garbage dumps.

• Rio Tinto posts record first-half profit

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:01pm EDT

  The global mining company, which is fighting a hostile takeover bid by BHP Billiton, said net income more than doubled in the January-June period to $6.9 billion, lifted by booming Asian demand for iron ore and the acquisition last year of Alcan.

• Experts weigh 'planetary emergencies'

  Posted: August 24th, 2008, 5:16pm EDT

  More than 120 scientists, engineers, analysts and economists from 30 countries met in Sicily to discuss global risks like cyberterrorism, climate change and the world's lagging energy supply.

• Researchers question wide use of HPV vaccine

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  Studies suggest that two vaccines against a virus that can cause some types of cervical cancer are being used without sufficient evidence that they are effective and worth their high cost.

• Shots are popular, but fail to cure doubts

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:29pm EDT

  The vaccine that Mishawn Araujo and tens of millions of other girls and young women in the United States and Europe have gotten is a triumph of marketing, critics say.

• Cervical cancer vaccine is popular, but fails to cure doubts

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 9:28am EDT

  The vaccine that Mishawn Araujo and tens of millions of other girls and young women in the United States and Europe have gotten is a triumph of marketing, critics say.

• Better to be fat and fit than skinny and unfit

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 9:28am EDT

  Is a person's weight really a reliable indicator of overall health?

• Playing a game of chase with a cosmic number

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 9:28am EDT

  Adam Riess and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology, to measure how fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is.

• Respite for those who take care of someone with Alzheimer's

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:07pm EDT

  As health professionals and government officials in the United States have recognized the strain on family members of Alzheimer's patients, a growing number of facilities now offer short-term respite stays.

• Parasite in Galápagos penguins prompts avian malaria fears

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:07pm EDT

  The discovery resulted from a long-term study to monitor diseases in Galápagos birds.

• At global AIDS meeting, a sobering assessment

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:07pm EDT

  At the 17th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, no major breakthroughs were announced, cutting-edge research findings were rare, and the mood was much more somber than that in Toronto two years ago.

• Winner of Stockholm Water Prize criticizes biofuels and urges vegetarianism

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 12:35pm EDT

  The winner of the Stockholm Water Prize criticized the growing use of biofuels Monday and urged people to eat less meat to help cut the amount of water used in food production.