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• A better device to detect ultraviolet light
• Fecal transplant pill knocks out recurrent C. diff infection
• Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
• Fighting fat with Botox
• Sparing the body, breast cancer treatment via nipple injection
• Well-connected hemispheres of Einstein's brain may have sparked his brilliance
• How Instagram can ruin your dinner
• Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skills
• Power of precision medicine in successful treatment of patient with disabling OCD
• Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists

A better device to detect ultraviolet light Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:43 PM PDT Researchers have developed a new photodiode that can detect in just milliseconds a certain type of high-energy ultraviolet light, called UVC, which is powerful enough to break the bonds of DNA and harm living creatures.

Fecal transplant pill knocks out recurrent C. diff infection Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:52 AM PDT Swallowing pills containing a concentrate of fecal bacteria successfully stops recurrent bouts of debilitating Clostridium difficile infection by rebalancing the bacteria in the gut.

Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:52 AM PDT Researchers find that small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.

Fighting fat with Botox Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:49 AM PDT Researchers have had promising experimental results from using Botox as a weight loss tool in rats. The research group hopes to win approval for human testing in the near future.

Sparing the body, breast cancer treatment via nipple injection Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT A new technique for breast cancer treatment and prevention has been proposed by researchers - injection of therapeutics via the nipple. The procedure, demonstrated on mice, offers direct access to the most common origin of breast cancer, the milk ducts, and could be used to offer cancer therapy that spares healthy regions of the body.

Well-connected hemispheres of Einstein's brain may have sparked his brilliance Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's brain were unusually well connected to each other and may have contributed to his brilliance.

How Instagram can ruin your dinner Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT Warning Instagrammers: you might want to stop taking so many pictures of your food. New research finds that looking at too many pictures of food can actually make it less enjoyable to eat.

Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skills Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:26 AM PDT Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies. These researchers performed five experiments to measure the effect of reading literary fiction on participants' Theory of Mind, the complex social skill of "mind-reading" to understand others' mental states.

Power of precision medicine in successful treatment of patient with disabling OCD Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:57 AM PDT A multidisciplinary team led by a geneticist and psychiatrist have published a paper providing a glimpse of both the tremendous power and the current limitations of "precision medicine."

Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:30 AM PDT Young Swiss men who say that they believe in God are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills than Swiss men of the same age group who describe themselves as atheists. Belief is a protective factor against addictive behaviour. This is the conclusion reached by a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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