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This blind teenager can use echolocation to live an amazingly normal life. Crazy...

Quoted: This theory puts forward the notion that depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person.

Quoted: BACTERIA cause disease. The idea that they might also prevent disease is counterintuitive. Yet that is the hypothesis Chris Lowry, of Bristol University, and his colleagues are putting forward in Neuroscience. They think a particular sort of bacterium might alleviate clinical depression.

Quoted: A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer -- meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on "Blue Brain" promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness.

The classic milgram experimient of administering fake electric shocks was recreated in a virtual environment with suprising results.

Quoted: Virtual Milgram Experiment re: Various on 12/26/2006: Science Fiction in the News

Wow, this is strange and creepy.

Quoted: A common parasite found in cats may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale, according to a scientist based at the University of California, Santa Barbara.