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Our brains are constantly trying to stay in balance?between too much and too little nerve activity. When they become unbalanced, this leads to disorders like schizophrenia and autism. If we could just find that neuron “switch,” maybe we could turn it off.

In the Scientific American website, Susannah F. Locke quotes neurobiologist Michael Greenberg as saying, “Nobody has [found] a gene that controls the process in quite that way before.” But he thinks HE has: a gene called Npas4.
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Volcanoes may have originally been the source of life on Earth. But today they cause death, and nearly 500 million people live close enough to the planet’s 600 currently active volcanoes. We need to find a way to PREDICT when these mountains are going to explode!
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Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analyzing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press, as a technology that has been available to US intelligence agencies for twenty years finally makes its way into the public domain.

Swiss researchers have done it: By analyzing the signals produced by a person?s keystrokes, they have been able to reproduce what that person typed. BBC news quotes them as declaring that keyboards are “not safe to transmit sensitive information.”
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In Whitley’s new journal, he writes: “I have been thinking once again about the possibility of open contact. It almost happened, as I understand it, in late eighties and early nineties, but was stopped when armed NATO fighters rose over Belgium each time an appearance took place. Once on the ground, there was a concern that the visitors involved would be attacked. I had some involvement in this situation, but I lost out, obviously. Now, the possibility exists again?”

We?ll never succeed in achieving contact if we keep trying to shoot them down. In the past, people have tried to shoot US down, but we’re still here. Make sure we’ll still be here tomorrow too: Subscribe today!

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