* "Youth" pills, hawked online, win over top
scientists:
A company selling pills with "youth-prolonging"
molecules has snagged a leading biologist and a
Nobel laureate as customers.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/070206_resveratrol.htm
* Cosmic blasts re-evaluated:
They spit out as much energy in seconds as our Sun
does in 10 billion years, but no one knows quite
why.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070208_grb.htm
* Action video games sharpen vision, researchers
say:
A shoot-em-up game improved students' visual acuity
20 percent, according to scientists.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070208_video.htm
* For some species, an upside to inbreeding:
While not recommending it for humans, researchers
found inbreeding may make for better parents.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070205_inbreeding.htm
* Next-generation particle collider planned:
A proposed accelerator would recreate conditions in
the cosmos a trillionth of a second after its birth.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070208_collider.htm
* Report spurs backing for global body on warming:
Fear of runaway global warming pushed over 40
countries to support a bid for a body that could
single out, and perhaps police, polluting nations.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070202_warming.htm
* How drugs cause hallucinations:
Scientists say they have partly explained what
causes the mind-bending effects of substances such
as LSD.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070129_hallucinogen.htm
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