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Oxytocin Hormone May Treat Autism: Study Shows Oxytocin May Improve Social Skills for Some People With Autism

Separate brain paths for start and end of sounds is key to hearing and understanding speech -- both eventually join in temporal lobe

First Brain Recordings from Flying Fruit Flies: Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly

Hottest temperature ever heads science to Big Bang -- "Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe."

Mysterious Origin of Cosmic Rays Pinned Down

Backward Black Holes Control Fate of Galaxies

See-Through Frogs Discovered

Marijuana May Disrupt Brain Development -- "[The researcher] pointed out shortcomings in the study, however."

Simple test may spot concussion in athletes

Timing of Seasons Is Changing -- "The Earth's seasons have shifted back in the calendar year, with the hottest and coldest days of the years now occurring almost two days earlier, a new study finds. This shift could be the work of global warming, the researchers say."

Oil fight could trigger a federal shutdown

This angers me. (Not the shutdown part--if the Republicans want to be that stupid/suicidal right before the election, let them.) Democrats are now, after all these years, drawing up a plan to allow drilling in ANWR? Conservation is a fantastic moral issue. It incenses me that they're willing to compromise their morals.

See Extreme appeal: voters trust extreme positions more than moderate ones, study finds (thanks, dsgood)