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Ever wonder what it’s like to live in a cramped space with 14 strangers for a week? Well, I can tell you.

Dear EarthTalk : I heard someone say that legalizing pot--as Californians considered doing last year--would benefit the environment. How would that be? --William T., Portland, Ore.

My hometown lies on a sandbar, squarely in the floodplain of the Upper Mississippi River. Winona (Minnesota) benefited from its position along the river, rapidly growing to wealth as a steamboat port and lumber town. The second railroad bridge across the Mississippi was built there, and in 1900, Winona had more millionaires per capita than any other town in the country.

Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series University of Washington [More]

On Saturday morning we fly to Guam, an island about one fifth the size of Rhode Island. Guam is part of the United States, although as a territory it lacks voting representation in Congress or a say in presidential elections. Location is primary in real estate speculation, but it is also central to military strategy and ecosystem management

SUBSIDIES AND HORMONES In “ How to Fix the Obesity Crisis ,” David H. Freedman proposed behavior modification as a solution, but it cannot be applied to 200 million overweight people. Freedman also seems to support subsidies for fruits and vegetables and other government-sponsored programs.

A week's warning could save an untold number of lives In ""Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.

For most of the past century the scientific consensus held that the adult human brain did not produce any new neurons. Researchers overturned that theory in the 1990s, but what role new neurons played in the adult human brain remained a mystery. Recent work now sug

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Nanoparticles have been investigated in recent years as tools for defending the brain against neurotoxic proteins that may contribute to the onset of several different neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease . Such proteins, in particular amyloid-beta peptides, are thought to play a role depositing fibrous plaques on the brain that damage synapses (the contact points between neurons) and lead to a decline in cognitive capabilities .

By Meryl Dakin VICKSBURG, Miss., May 19 (Reuters) - The Mississippi River [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine As species go, humans aren't renowned for their sense of smell. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine All science students learn the 'central dogma' of molecular biology: that the sequence of bases encoded in DNA determines the sequence of amino acids that makes up the corresponding proteins. [More]

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - A blog post by the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that mentions a [More]

As deadly white-nose syndrome moves toward Wisconsin's borders, citizens are called upon to help investigate the threat through the collection of data about these nocturnal insectivores [More]