Quoted: The findings also may help explain why intense education programs do help some autistic children — because certain genes that respond to experience weren't missing, they were just stuck in the "off" position.

Good point.

Quoted: These creatures set records for surviving in the most inhospitable places on Earth – their existence bodes well for finding alien life

Quoted: All four families have a few things in common. First, the people with Unertan syndrome are all the products of incestuous marriages. Children of closely-related people often suffer birth defects. Also, the children who walk on all fours are developmentally disabled; some are unable to talk.

Quoted: Scientists are studying sled dogs that run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in an attempt to understand why the dogs are “fatigue-proof.”

Quoted: Goals of the mission include creating a Web resource that contributes to our understanding of human origins; educating and inspiring the next generation of scientists; providing means of research for global and indigenous paleontologists, geologists, scientists, and students; creating a collaborative community and virtual meeting space for anyone interested in human origins; and presenting a prehistory of early humans.

Wow.

Quoted: Spievack's brother, Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound.
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To his astonishment, every bit of his fingertip grew back.

Seems like an interesting development.

Quoted: People whose immune systems are resistant to the human immunodeficiency virus are causing it to mutate into a weaker form, which may improve survival odds in people with typical immune systems.

Quoted: Experts zero in on what separates humans from our closest living relatives.

It is interesting that there is a maximum amount of cold (absolute zero) whereas there is no maximum amount of hotness. Near absolute zero (or the coldest temperature in the universe) has been created on Earth only recently -- in a laboratory.

Quoted: Albert Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendra Bose predicted in 1925 that scientists could generate such matter by subjecting atoms to temperatures approaching absolute zero. Seventy years later, Ketterle, working at M.I.T., and almost simultaneously, Carl Wieman, working at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder created the first Bose-Einstein condensates.
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Ultimately, Ketterle, like many physicists, hopes to discover new forms of matter that could act as superconductors at room temperature, which would revolutionize how humans use energy.