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Emotional Problems More Common for Kids with Depressed Parents

Scientists have determined in a new study that children who have a depressed parent tend to be at an increased risk of developing emotional and/or behavioral problems during childhood, adolescence, or adult life than peers in the same situations, but with healthy parents. Kids who lived in families where both paren...

9 November 2011
14:01 GMT

Verifying Gravity Waves with Neutron Star Emissions

Astrophysicists say that collisions between neutron stars can generate shock waves so powerful that they send radio signals throughout their surroundings. These emissions could theoretically be used to verify if the gravity waves Albert Einstein's theory imply to exist are real or not. Thus far, the cosmic d...

29 September 2011
06:19 GMT

Schizophrenics Carry More Mutations than Their Parents

In a new scientific research, investigators determined that schizophrenic patients tend to exhibit a much higher rate of de novo mutations than their parents. These are mutations that occur in these patients exclusively, and cannot be traced in their parents too. The frequency of these genetic errors made researchers...

11 July 2011
05:14 GMT

Surgery to Reshape the Heart Ineffective

The latest scientific data on the matter prove that a controversial type of heart surgery, in which doctors fold the scar tissue of the heart unto itself, has little significant results for the well-being of the patient. Rather, it poses a great danger to their health, on account of the fact that the procedure is ver...

30 March 2009
07:19 GMT

Life May Have Been Sparked by Crystals

One of the greatest mysteries associated with the origin of life is how the right chemicals came to be bound together in a seemingly perfect way and then simply started to live. Amino-acids are at the base of all living creatures, but the conditions that have led to their appearance are still unclear. One researcher ...

20 March 2009
04:15 GMT


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