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Friday, June 15, 2012 Five Big Myths About Space Aliens A typical Hollywood alien is "soft, squishy and big on mucus," in the words of Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. But far beyond Hollywood's limited scope, aliens might really exist. What are they like, and how would they actually handle a human encounter? Click the link above to learn more. Surprising New Take On Heredity Of Female Homosexuality Will Cyborg Fuel Cells Change Lives Of Paralyzed Patients? What 'Franken-Physics' Atom Feat May Mean For Computer Design Elvis Ballad Yields Clues About Baffling Disorder 'Failed Star' Study Sheds Light On Earth's Future BLOG POSTS Christopher Emdin: Geniuses Unite: The Intersection of Hip-Hop and Science From GZA and Neil deGrasse Tyson we learn that exposure to a multitude of positive experiences is the key to creating more options in the future for young people. James M. Gentile: Carl Wieman and the Challenge of Science Education Carl Wieman, the Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who has been a key science official in the White House since 2010, has resigned from his government post for personal reasons. His departure provides an opportunity to reflect on his contributions in government as well as academia. James A. Shapiro: Network Evolution: How Natural Genetic Engineering Builds Circuits in the Genome A major advance in our understanding of heredity and genetics is recognizing that organism characters are produced by networks and not by individual "gene products." Mario Livio: From Spider Webs to the Cosmic Web For an astrophysicist, perhaps the most amazing aspect of 3D spider webs is how much they resemble computer simulations of the cosmic web -- the filamentary structure of the Dark Matter in the universe. Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH: The Fertility Paradox The WHO predicts that by 2050, the developing world will add 35 million people annually. Yet, at the same time in those same overpopulated regions, about one in three couples are infertile. Public health officials call it the Fertility Paradox.

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