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Just as shrinking transistors makes computers more powerful, brains with smaller components could in principle pack in more power and become faster. Human neurons, however--and in particular, their long “tails,” called axons--may already be at (or close to) their physical limit.

CBS News correspondent Terry McCarthy reports on the rare case of an 8-year-old girl in Calif. that survived a rabies diagnosis.

Calif. 8-year-old Precious Reynolds is one of just three Americans who has ever survived illness

Leading Net radio service Pandora has just priced its IPO, ready to lead a nascent industry into the next phase.

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Every two hours of television time ups risk for diabetes by 20 percent, heart disease by 15 percent, new study shows

Once, while lecturing 150 freshmen about the value of the natural world in which we live I paused and asked, "How many of you can tell me the current phase of the moon?” None could. [More]

Environmental Working Group says federal agency "caved to industry and weakened its safety standards"

The FDA is issuing the first new sun block guidelines in over thirty years. Betty Nguyen reports, the goal is to reduce skin cancer by changing the labels on sunscreen products.

Experts say embattled congressman must first change his behavior, and then look at what fueled it

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"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." -Leonardo Da Vinci It's often lonely, these days, as a theorist. As soon as most people hear the word theory , in fact, they start thinking about something like this: [More]

Mosquitoes have remarkably refined powers of smell.

Scientists have never fully understood how mosquitoes distinguish the smell of human breath and sweat from other odors in nature. To learn more, molecular biologist John Carlson at Yale University and colleagues relied on a mutant strain of fruit fly. Each of a series of mosquito genes that code for smell receptors was transplanted, individually, into the fruit flies, which have an "empty" smell-detecting neuron lacking smell receptors

This is the complete rear face of the sun, imaged for the first time in this manner by NASA's two STEREO solar imaging spacecraft on June 1. It's intriguing, and also relevant: Scientists are predicting that the next 11-year Solar Cycle could be very muted, which some suggest leads to an extended period of cold weather on Earth.