Another Collection of Interesting News and Facts

Here is another collection of interesting news and facts that I would like to have written about, but did not have the time:

Brain surgery boosts spirituality:

Lose a tumour, gain self-transcendence.

by Janelle Weaver

Nature News

Fusion Power a Step Closer After Giant Laser Blast

Nuclear fusion plant possible within a decade, physicist says.

by Ker Than

National Geographic News

Les experts du climat sont-ils encore crédibles ?

Laurence Caramel et Stéphane Foucart

Le Monde

Genes reveal 'biological ageing'

BBC News

A Frightful Genetic Twist

By Greg Miller

ScienceNOW Daily News

Synthetische Biologie:

Leben aus dem Lego-Baukasten

Von Jens Lubbadeh

Der Spiegel

Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate:

Imaging technique pierces vegetative state.

Heidi Ledford

Nature News

Morals don't come from God:

The finding that religion scarcely influences moral intuition undermines the idea that a godless society will be immoral, says Philip Ball. Whether it 'explains' religion is another matter.

Philip Ball

Nature News

A Moving Experience: Illusions That Trick the Brain

How the eyes can see movement where it does not exist

By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran

Scientific American

THE FATAL X

by Alex Ross

The New Yorker

Is Water Vapor in the Stratosphere Slowing Global Warming?

A mysterious drop in water vapor in the lower stratosphere might be slowing climate change

By David Biello

Scientific American

How to Train the Aging Brain

By BARBARA STRAUCH

The New York Times

Y Chromosome Evolving Rapidly

By Ann Gibbons

ScienceNOW Daily News