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New research has revealed a strong connection between use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and an increased incidence of breast cancer. And it turns out that men have hot flashes too! But there ARE alternatives to HRT.

Breast cancer rates began to go down in 2002-2003, which coincided with the plummeting use of HRT in mid-2002, after results of the Women’s Health Initiative study were announced, revealing that HRT was dangerous in many different ways. The incidence of breast cancer in 2004 leveled maintained the same low level, which is the lowest rate since about 1987. Researcher Donald Berry says, “This kind of study can’t prove causality, but the data present a very compelling link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer.”
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We’ve told you how cars of the future may be able to fix their own dents. Now it turns out that houses of the future may be able to repair their own earthquake damage. This could be important, since scientists have discovered a set of massive faults in the US Midwest that caused a series of devastating earthquakes 200 years ago?and could do it again, since they are set to shake on a 500-year cycle.

In LiveScience.com, Robin Lloyd reports that 4 huge ?seismic events? of 8.0 magnitude occurred from December 1811 to February 1812, with an epicenter in the town of New Madrid in Missouri, near the Kentucky and Tennessee state lines. The quakes caused the nearby Mississippi River to flow backwards temporarily.
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The problem with greenhouse gases is becoming so dire that Britain’s Prince Charles has declared it to be an international emergency. This is especially worrisome since explosive population and industrial growth means that China will overtake the US this year as world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases.

In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson writes that “countries in the West may control their own emissions, but this doesn’t help when major pollution is blowing over from other countries.” But a new device has been invented that could be placed on one country that would suck up carbon dioxide pollution coming from power plants and automobiles across the globe.
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When we think of the Virginia Tech killings, we immediately have the urge to try to figure out what could have caused a lonely, beleaguered student like Cho to commit such violent acts. We want to place the blame somewhere–such as our weak gun control laws, on violent video games and movies. One thing that science has learned during the past few decades is that we are the ones who create monsters like this?usually through relentless childhood sexual abuse. But if we do not acknowledge the role of choice in this scenario, we inevitably set ourselves up for a future in which absolutely all of our freedoms are curtailed.
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