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No Link Found between Psychedelics and Psychosis
A large U.S. survey found that users of LSD and similar drugs were no more likely to have mental-health conditions than other respondents - TechMediaNetwork Health
Heroin Overdose Deaths Nearly Quadruple in 13 Years
The increase in prescription pain medication use might be a contributing factor - Forum Technology
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2015
From autonomous drones to emergent AI to digital genomes, this year’s list from the World Economic Forum offers its latest glimpse of our fast-approaching technological future - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 3 Health
Microbiome Research May Soon Pay Off Big
Effective interventions may come before all the research is in - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 3 Technology
Hearing Science: Our Ears May Be Able to Tell Cancer Cells from Healthy Ones and Detect Space Weather
Ears are such terrific pattern finders that scientists are using audio data to detect cancer cells and particles from space - Reuters Health
Disasters Have Same Human Impact as Tuberculosis
Deaths, economic losses and other negative impacts from disasters have caused losses equivalent to 42 million "life-years" annually since 1980, according to the UN - Reuters More Science
Struggle, Suffering Mark Lives of Nearly 2 Billion Women
Nearly 2 billion of the world's women are struggling or suffering in their daily lives, while 620 million describe themselves as thriving, according to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday - Reuters Mind & Brain
Altered Neural Responses Found in Adolescents Exposed to Trauma in Childhood
Adolescents with a history of childhood trauma show different neural responses to subjective anxiety and craving - @ScientificAmerican Technology
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2015
What innovations are leaping out of the labs to shape the world in powerful ways? Identifying those compelling innovations is the charge of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, one of the World Economic Forum’s network of expert communities that form the Global Agenda Councils, which today released its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for [...] - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 3 Health
Genes and Microbes Influence One Another, Scientists Find
Evidence that genes shape the microbiome may point to new treatments for common diseases - Reuters Health
Slash Sugar Intake to Fight Obesity, Tooth Decay
Adults and children must cut the amount of sugar they consume by as much as half in North America and Western Europe and even more in other areas, the World Health Organization said - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Human Price of Forest Destruction Paid in Plague
Clearing forests also allows human diseases to flourish - Extinction Countdown Energy & Sustainability
After 400 Million Years, Coelacanth at Risk of Extinction
It may have hidden in the ocean for millions of years, but life today poses numerous challenges for the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), the "living fossil" fish that was famously rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. - News Health
U.S. Funds Efforts to Freeze Human Organs for Long-Term Storage
A glimmer of hope emerges for preserving transplantable livers and hearts in cold storage. As for brains—only in sci-fi - Quick and Dirty Tips Technology
Technology to Help You Sleep
Tech Talker explores several gadgets and apps that can help you wake up and go to sleep easier. - News More Science
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Watch Live Today: The Physics of Water [Video]
Physicist Marcia Barbosa will present a free live Webcast on the scientific mysteries of H20
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Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones
Parents' traumatic experience may hamper their offspring's ability to bounce back from trauma - 60-Second Science More Science
Salty Skin Boosts Mouse Wound Healing
Mice fed a diet high in sodium had increased immune cell activity in their skin that helped ward off infection. Karen Hopkin reports - Tetrapod Zoology Evolution
Meet the Scaly-Tail Gliders
Among the weirdest and most fascinating of rodents are the scalytails/scaly-tails, scaly-tailed squirrels or anomalures, properly termed Anomaluridae. - 60-Second Science Space
Titan Could Host Life "Not As We Know It"
Saturn's moon Titan is too cold for cell membranes to form as they do on Earth. But researchers have come up with a cell membrane that could exist on Titan. Christopher Intagliata reports
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