<ul><li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944191/080514102226.htm">Distinct Treatment Needed: Tourette's And Obsessive-compulsive Disorder</a> While 30 to 50 percent of people with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome are also affected with obsessive compulsive disorder, both illnesses might have a distinct neurocognitive profile, according to a new study in the journal Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944190/080514090558.htm" title="Soils Contain Huge Amounts Of Ancient Carbon: When Does This Carbon Enter The Atmosphere?">Soils Contain Huge Amounts Of Ancient Carbon: When Does This Carbon Enter The...</a> Knowing that soils are a potential climate change time-bomb is nothing new -- but now, for the first time, a group of international scientists have found a way to distinguish just how much of these ancient carbon stores are being lost to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. This means that in the futur... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944188/080513202149.htm">New Insights Into The Dynamics Of The Brain's Cortex</a> Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, scientists have shown a direct link between activity in the cortex and the microscopic structure of this neuronal network. Building on the existing body of research, the new work indicates that the spontaneous activity of small neuronal netwo... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944187/080513140127.htm">Introducing Virus Resistant 'Orange Bulldog' Pumpkins</a> Move over "Longface", "Spooktacular" and "Trickster" -- there's a new face in the pumpkin patch. Researchers recently introduced "Orange Bulldog," a new variety of the familiar fall fruit that may soon be available to consumers and wholesale pumpkin growers. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944186/080514101157.htm">Discovery Of Cell Linked To Learning And Memory</a> Neuroscientists have discovered a fundamental component of the process that regulates memory formation. The discovery explains, for the first time, how new nerve cells form in an area of the brain associated with learning and memory -- which is known to deteriorate in people with stroke and dementia... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290370818/080514131125.htm">Warming Climate Is Changing Life On Global Scale, Says New Study</a> A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include earlier leafing of trees and plants over many regions; movem... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290099385/080514064930.htm">Researchers Fine-tune Clot-busting Treatment For Bleeding In Brain</a> Doctors have fine-tuned the dosage and timing for administering clot-busting tissue plasminogen activator to patients with strokes caused by bleeding within the brain. The treatment dramatically increases survival for the deadly condition. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/288990120/080512172907.htm">Monarch Butterflies Help Explain Why Parasites Harm Hosts</a> It?s a paradox that has confounded evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin: Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival, why do they harm them? A new study of monarch butterflies and the microscopic parasites that hitch a ride on them finds that the parasites strike a middle ground betwe... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944192/080514091427.htm">Endocrine Disruptors In Common Plastics Linked To Obesity Risk</a> Exposure during development either in the womb or during infancy to chemicals used to make products such as baby bottles, the lining of food tins and some plastic food wraps and containers, may contribute to the development of obesity, according to new research presented at the European Congress on ... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/288990121/080512172904.htm">What's The Difference Between A Human And A Fruit Fly?</a> Fruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed a new way of estimating the total number of interactions between proteins in any organism. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944196/080515072740.htm">Global Warming May Lead To Increase In Kidney Stones Disease</a> Rising global temperatures could lead to an increase in kidney stones. Dehydration has been linked to stone disease, particularly in warmer climates, and global warming will exacerbate this effect. As a result, the prevalence of stone disease may increase, along with the costs of treating the condit... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944194/080514083819.htm" title="Self-Sustaining Solitary Light Wave Packets Could Inspire New Generation Of Computer Networks">Self-Sustaining Solitary Light Wave Packets Could Inspire New Generation Of C...</a> European researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks. Using light rather than electronic or magnetic devices to store and move data is quicker, more energy efficient and cost-effectiv... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944208/080514213432.htm">Could Violent Video Games Reduce Rather Than Increase Violence?</a> Does playing violent video games make players aggressive? It is a question that has taxed researchers, sociologists, and regulators ever since the first console was plugged into a TV and the first shots fired in a shoot 'em up game. Now researchers suggest that there is scant scientific evidence tha... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944207/080514143344.htm">Chemistry Of Airborne Particulate: Lung Interactions Revealed</a> Exactly how airborne particulates harm our lungs still puzzles epidemiologists, physicians, environmental scientists, and policy makers. Now California Institute of Technology researchers have found that they act by impairing the lungs' natural defenses against ozone. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944206/080514130141.htm" title="Statin Drug Used To Lower Cholesterol Effective For Hepatitis C Treatment, Study Shows">Statin Drug Used To Lower Cholesterol Effective For Hepatitis C Treatment, St...</a> A statin drug used to lower cholesterol has been found to stop hepatitis C, especially in patients resistant to standard treatment. The drug, Fluvastatin, has been approved since 1993 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of elevated cholesterol in adults. Millions of patients h... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944205/080513210450.htm">Recipe For Energy Saving Unravelled In Migratory Birds</a> Pointed wings, together with carrying less weight per wing area and avoidance of high winds and atmospheric turbulence, save a bird lots of energy during migration. This is shown for the first time in free-flying wild birds. Researchers state that climate change might have a critical impact on small... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944199/080514213419.htm">Common Drug Halts Lung Damage In Emphysema, Study Shows</a> An antibiotic commonly used to treat acne can prevent tissue damage caused by lung diseases such as emphysema, researchers have found. It appears to boost the body's ability to protect against damage to the lungs. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944198/080514124110.htm">Mice Can Do Without Humans' Most Treasured Genes</a> The mouse is a stalwart stand-in for humans in medical research, thanks to genomes that are 85 percent identical. But identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man, a study by evolutionary biologists reveals. <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/290944209/080514173610.htm" title="First Conclusive Evidence Of Alzheimer's-like Brain Tangles In Nonhuman Primates Found">First Conclusive Evidence Of Alzheimer's-like Brain Tangles In Nonhuman Prima...</a> Researchers have discovered the first conclusive evidence of Alzheimer's-like neurofibrillary brain tangles in an aged nonhuman primate. They also discovered deposits of beta-amyloid protein in plaques and blood vessels of the chimp's brain tissue, although these changes were infrequent compared to ... <li><a href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/291097500/080515092615.htm">Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes</a> Physicists have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes -- and the first plausible mechanism for how information might escape from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, not even l... </ul>