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All about brains: stress, hive mind, jumping genes

All about brains: stress, hive mind, jumping genes

We're talking about brains all hour. We have three guests who will be discussing new research looking at how the brain works and how it changes due to major life events.

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Ask a Neuroscientist: Multi-taskers vs. focusers

Ask a Neuroscientist: Multi-taskers vs. focusers

We're taking audience-submitted questions to David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, to learn more about how the brain works.

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Cassini spacecraft glimpses new views of moon Rhea

Cassini spacecraft glimpses new views of moon Rhea

The pockmarked surface of Saturn's second-largest moon has come into sharper focus in new images released by NASA.

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Venus and Jupiter cuddling up in night sky

The spectacular Venus and Jupiter show can be seen on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The planets will appear just 3 degrees apart in the western sky.

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Ask a Neuroscientist: How and where are memories stored?

Ask a Neuroscientist: How and where are memories stored?

This is the second in an occasional series called 'Ask a Neuroscientist.' Dan in Columbia Heights wants to know more about how brains store memories.
by Tom Weber

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The Week in Commentary

The Week in Commentary

A sampling of last week's commentaries, as well as some of the comments we received in response.

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Wayzata HS student takes stem cell research to national competition

A Minnesota teen joins the Intel Science Talent Search competition for his research on a type of stem cell that could help replace and regenerate muscle lost by people suffering from muscular dystrophy.
by Tom Crann

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Apple lets movies into iCloud, upgrades Apple TV

Apple is making it easier for people who buy movies through iTunes to play them on the various devices they own.

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Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power

Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power

The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.
by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

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Faces of 2 Civil War era sailors reconstructed

Faces of 2 Civil War era sailors reconstructed

When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom in 2002, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. Now, thanks to forensic reconstruction, the two have faces.

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