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Autism five times more common in low birth weight kids: Study
Researchers tracked nearly 900 low birth weight children born in New Jersey between 1984 and 1987
Read More »Learning the Look of Love: That Sly "Come Hither" Stare
Series Intro While it might not be witchcraft, the formula for `love at first sight' remains a mystery.
Read More »Tell Us More Telomeres: Anecdotes from a Nobel Prize Winner
The little tips of chromosomes get shorter every time a cell divides, and this shortening is a mark of cellular aging. If they get short enough, the cell dies or stops dividing
Read More »Autism-spectrum disorders: 24 warning signs
Autism isn't always easy to spot, but this simple checklist can help
Read More »Breast cancer awareness turns planet pink
Signature hue of common cancer showing up in some surprising places
Read More »What Woody Woodpecker Can Teach Us About Football
It’s football season, which means marching bands, cheerleaders, doing the wave, and crowds going wild when their favorite team scores — and also more than a few bone-crunching collisions between players, a substantial fraction of which will result in injury. One of the most common foot-ball related injuries
Read More »Special relativity may answer faster-than-light neutrino mystery
Oh, yeah. Moving faster than the speed of light has been the hot topic in the news and OPERA has been the key player
Read More »New Finnish Reactor Town Counts Blessings, Fears
By Terhi Kinnunen PYHAJOKI, Finland (Reuters) - Matti Pahkala braces from the chilly winds blowing from the Gulf of Bothnia as he surveys a map of the Hanhikivi peninsula in northern Finland, an area he first visited as a child.
Read More »Kids’ sports-related knee injuries rise
More kids are playing more sports more often, and the stress on their knees may be too much for some
Read More »Video: Spike in sports-related knee injuries: study
A new study reveals a dramatic increase in the number of sports-related knee injuries in young athletes over the last decade.
Read More »FBI: Baby Dies Aboard Carnival Cruise Ship
The FBI says it’s investigating how a newborn baby died aboard a cruise ship that has returned to Port Canaveral.
Read More »Disc Spins Its Way to $1-Million Oil Spill Cleanup Prize
When oil started spewing from BP's Macondo well in April 2010, there weren't too many options for cleaning it up.
Read More »Reports of the Black Death’s death have been greatly exaggerated
These plague victims were excavated from the East Smithfield burial grounds between 1986 and 1988. The plague bacteria that swept through medieval Europe had been declared extinct just over a month ago. A quick google search reveals articles with headlines such as ‘Medieval plague bacteria strain probably extinct’ and ‘Black death strain extinct’ .
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