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I read Science Daily every day. 

Here are some good Links to good articles :-)
You Can't Trust A Tortured Brain: Neuroscience Discredits Coercive Interrogation


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090921134656.htm

How We Know A Dog Is A Dog: Concept Acquisition In The Human Brain
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090923121443.htm

Stimulating Sight: Retinal Implant Could Help Restore Useful Level Of Vision To Certain Groups Of Blind People
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200090923173952.htm9/09/

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone To The 'Island Of Stability'
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924163526.htm

Discovery Brings New Type Of Fast Computers Closer To Reality
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090927165439.htm

Color Plays Musical Chairs In The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001164231.htm


Brain-Computer Interface Allows Person-to-person Communication Through Power Of Thought
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006102637.htm

Researchers Discover Mechanism That Helps Humans See In Bright And Low Light
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091013123357.htm

Scientists Remove Amyloid Plaques From Brains Of Live Animals With Alzheimer's Disease
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015091602.htm

New Light On Nature Of Broca's Area: Rare Procedure Documents How Human Brain Computes Language
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015141500.htm


Juggling Enhances Connections In The Brain
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091016114055.htm


Alzheimer's Researchers Find High Protein Diet Shrinks Brain
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091020192206.htm

Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102093943.htm

Scientists Show How Tiny Cells Deliver Big Sound In Cochlea


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022114319.htm

Female Choice Benefits Mothers More Than Offspring
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022141404.htm

Time-keeping Brain Neurons Discovered
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091019162921.htm


Mantis Shrimp Eyes Could Show Way To Better DVD And CD players
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091025162459.htm

Link Between Alcohol And Cancer Explained: Alcohol Activates Cellular Changes That Make Tumor Cells Spread
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026172052.htm

Smoking Gun: Just One Cigarette Has Harmful Effect On Arteries Of Young Healthy Adults
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091027085300.htm

Electrical Engineers Go Head To Head With Genius On Music Playlists
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091027185140.htm

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Study Suggests Handedness May Affect Body Perception
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104152304.htm

'Spoonful Of Sugar' Makes The Worms' Life Span Go Down
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103121605.htm



Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110141842.htm

Dramatic Decline Found in Siberian Tigers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091124121429.htm

Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083702.htm

Solar Power from Your Windows, Awnings, Even Clothing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805150530.htm

New Brain Connections Form Rapidly During Motor Learning.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091129153359.htm

Infections are common in ICUs worldwide, study finds.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091201161833.htm

Waterpipe tobacco smokers inhale same toxicants as cigarette smokers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202162338.htm

A window that washes itself? New nano-material may revolutionize solar panels and batteries, too.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091203132159.htm

Learning by Imagining: How Mental Imagery Training Aids Perceptual Learning.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091203132153.htm

By Feeding the Birds, You Could Change Their Evolutionary Fate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091203132144.htm


Glial Cells Can Cross from the Central to the Peripheral Nervous System.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091201182616.htm


How Marijuana Causes Memory Deficits.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803123240.htm



Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090615095940.htm

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091205110306.htm

Brain Waves Can 'Write' on a Computer in Early Tests, Researchers Show.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091206181911.htm

Brain Activity Exposes Those Who Break Promises.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091209121156.htm

Entropy Alone Can Create Complex Crystals from Simple Shapes; Tetrahedra Packing Record Broken.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091209134633.htm

Nerve-Cell Transplants Help Brain-Damaged Rats Fully Recover Lost Ability to Learn.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091209134900.htm

Earth-Like Planets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091214121523.htm

Of Girls and Geeks: Environment May Be Why Women Don't Like Computer Science.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091214143728.htm



Are Angry Women More Like Men?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091206110844.htm

Scientists Decode Memory-Forming Brain Cell Conversations.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215202322.htm

Why does a human baby need a full year before starting to walk?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215160851.htm

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method devised
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091220143923.htm

Opening new frontiers: First volume of microbial encyclopedia published
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223133341.htm

World's first molecular transistor created
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223133343.htm

How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223125125.htm

Neuroscientists store information in isolated brain tissue; possible basis of short-term memory.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091227212312.htm

Transcription factors guide differences in human and chimp brain function.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091207151220.htm

Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091231153045.htm

Final moments of bee landing tactics revealed.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223074657.htm

Scans Show Learning 'Sculpts' The Brain's Connections
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091009092351.htm

Silencing brain cells with yellow and blue light.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100106193438.htm



Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans
http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html

Sedentary TV time may cut life short
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111161927.htm

'Wet' computing systems to boost processing power
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112090032.htm

Identifying thoughts through brain codes leads to deciphering the brain's dictionary.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112201347.htm

Neural thermostat keeps brain running efficiently.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113122255.htm

Search for an artificial blood substitute.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100115204727.htm

Brain Structures Predict Video Game Success
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120093521.htm

Neuron connections seen in 3-D.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100122102427.htm

 


Neurons developed from stem cells successfully wired with other brain regions in animals.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119172751.htm

Human brain uses a grid to represent space.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120131201.htm

Organic transistor paves way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125122101.htm

Smokers at risk from their own 'second-hand' smoke.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100129082914.htm

Seeing the brain hear reveals surprises about how sound is processed.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201093037.htm

Selective brain damage modulates human spirituality, research reveals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100210124757.htm

Are high speed elephants running or walking?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212092308.htm

Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100215174206.htm

Brain system behind general intelligence discovered.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222161843.htm

Learning keeps brain healthy: Mental activity could stave off age-related cognitive and memory decline.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302151242.htm


Traces of the past: Computer algorithm able to 'read' memories.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311123520.htm

Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/154/uQGYr9bnktw

Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain's secrets
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/93/LS3wMC2BpxU

Why surprises temporarily blind us.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311091615.htm

Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything
http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/117/y-Gk_Ddhr0M

David Logan on tribal leadership
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/130/xTkKSJSqU-I

Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/138/HMYVH-hBGWg

Brain naturally follows scientific method? Less effort to register 'predictable' images.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311101602.htm

Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/268/pTZM9X3JfTk

Nano-based RFID tags could replace bar codes.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100318113300.htm

Neil Gershenfeld: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector&rclk=cti#p/u/412/5n-APFrlXDs

New form of insulin can be inhaled rather than injected.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100323133041.htm

How bats avoid collisions: Making mental templates of sound and echo.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329152519.htm

For one tiny instant, physicists may have broken a law of nature.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329214740.htm

Breakthrough design opens door to 'full screen' Braille displays for the blind.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329093611.htm

Smoking is dumb: Young men who smoke have lower IQs, study finds.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401151746.htm

Bacteria as Art
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1211-bacteria_as_art.htm

Reward-driven people win more, even when no reward at stake.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100426182006.htm