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10News.dk - hand picked news, breaking news, top stories, world news - freedom of speech - Homepage Joanne Loves Science the conversation Efforts to regulate the lucrative mining venture are not proving successful due to collusion and corruption. Megaproject construction has been a major response to globalization in the urban realm. Whether successful or not – and most impeachments are not – the fallout for the Democrats and the US will be deep and enduring. Creative thinking needs to go into implementing copyright in countries like Liberia. Investigation of the brains of children and young adults who died suddenly in Mexico City revealed amyloid plaques similar to those found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors. Energy-wise, the fallout from the attack on Saudi oil facilities has so far been very muted. As Afghans head to the polls on September 28, peace still remains elusive.

The Electric Cosmos Passeur de sciences | Petites et grandes nouvelles dans l'actualité des sciences et de l'environnement Y Combinator Symphony of Science New Scientist Breaking News - Gene turn-off makes meek mice fear Deactivating a specific gene transforms meek mice into daredevils, researchers have found. The team believe the research might one day enable people suffering from fear - in the form of phobias or anxiety disorders, for example - to be clinically treated. The research found that mice lacking an active gene for the protein stathmin are not only more courageous, but are also slower to learn fear responses to pain-associated stimuli, says geneticist Gleb Shumyatsky, at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US. In the experiments, the stathmin-lacking mice wandered out into the centre of an open box, in defiance of the normal mouse instinct to hide along the box's walls to avoid potential predators. And to test learned fear, the mice were exposed to a loud sound followed by a brief electric shock from the floor below them. Neural responses In both mice and humans, the amygdala area of the brain serves as the control centre of basic fear impulses. More From New Scientist Anybody out there?

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