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True Colors Are In The Brain Of The Beholder
Pictures of brain waves that reveal our ability to see colour could provide a new objective way to diagnose and monitor diseases that affect human color perception. The research finding by a Universiy of New South Wales Ph.D. student, Ms. Mei Ying Boon, has earned her a nomination in this year's Fresh Science Awards. Climate Warning as Siberia Melts
August 2005 article about the melting of the "world's largest frozen peat bog"in Siberia, and how the "sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany combined could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere."From the online version of New Scientist magazine. Yeast Finding Links Processes In Heart Disease And Cancer
By studying a little-known yeast too primitive to get diseases, Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a surprising link between two processes at play in heart disease and cancer in people. Prey Not Hard-wired To Fear Predators
Are Asian elk hard-wired to fear the Siberian tigers who stalk them? When wolves disappear from the forest, are moose still afraid of them? No, according to a study by a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist, who says that several large prey species, including moose, caribou and elk, only fear predators they regularly encounter. Stanford Snake Venom Study Shows That Certain Cells May Eliminate Pois
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that the immune system really does side with the victim, at least in four kinds of venom that were used in their experiments. Love May Be A Lateralized Brain Function, Like Speech; Links Seen To S
Einstein/SUNY Stony Brook/Rutgers team find quantifiable love responses in fMRIs of 17 young people who were newly, madly in love. Intense love was a strong basic reward "drive"very different from sex, the New York City-area team (neuroscientist, anthropologist, social psychologist) shows.Two big surprises: fMRIs changed markedly over time, and activation regions (including the VTA) associated with intense romantic love are mostly on the brain's right side. Links seen to stalking, suicide, depression, autism. MicroRNA Convicted Of Triggering Metastasis
While past studies have shown that some microRNAs cause normal cells to divide rapidly and form tumors, this one offers proof that a microRNA can also cause tumors to metastasize. It establishes an important new role for a class of RNA molecules whose significance was discovered only recently. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Harmful Environmental Effects Of Livestock Production On The Planet 'I
The harmful environmental effects of livestock production are becoming increasingly serious at all levels -- local, regional, national and global -- and urgently need to be addressed, according to researchers from Stanford University, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other organizations. New York City Draft Riots of 1863
This excerpt from the book "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863"discusses the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed the enactment of a new conscription lottery law. "Throughout the week of riots [known as the Civil War Draft Riots], mobs harassed and sometimes killed blacks and their supporters and destroyed their property."From the University of Chicago Press.
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