Click Here to Read:   Human brain gets drawn to mediocrity! By Sumit Paul on the The Milli Gazette Online website on October 21, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Insects Are In Serious Trouble: In western Germany, populations of flying insects have fallen by around 80 percent in the last three decades by Ed Yong on the Atlantic Monthly website on October 19, 2017.

A dragonfly in the sunset
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Click Here to Read:  Schizophrenia disrupts the brain’s entire communication system, researchers say: Wiring is frayed in more than just one region, according to a new international study — the largest analysis of white matter to date — by USC and other institutions
BY Zen Vuong on the USC News website on October 17, 2017.

Fiber pathways in the brain are altered in schizophrenia, a mental illness in which patients may experience hallucinations, psychosis and depression. (Courtesy of Paul Thompson, Neda Jahanshad and Conor Corbin, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute)

Click Here to Read:  Neutron star merger observed through gravitational waves and light By Don Barrett on the World Socialist Web Site on October 18, 2017.

Artist’s rendition of two merging neutron stars showing both the rippling in spacetime and the beams of gamma rays shot out seconds after the gravitational waves. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

Click Here to Read:   Observation of gravitational waves wins Nobel Prize in physics By Bryan Dyne on the World Sociast Web Site on October 6, 2017.

The most recent detection of a gravitational wave was made by both LIGO and Virgo, allowing astronomers to more accurately locate the wave’s source. Credit: LIGO- Virgo Collaboration—Optical Sky Data: A. Mellinger

Click Here to Read:   A Meteor in the Saturnian Sky by Chris Lintott on the London Review of Books blog on September 12, 2017.

One of Cassini’s last looks at Saturn from a distance. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Click Here to Read:  The Benzene Ring: Dream Analysis By Malcolm W. Brown in The New York Times on August 16, 1988,

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Click Here to Read:  7 questions about how science sees the so-called ‘gay cure’: American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality out of the list of diseases in 1973; WHO officialised measure in 1990 Carolina Dantas from the GazetaWeb website on September 21, 2017.

Click Here to Read: FDA recommends approval of new leukemia treatment By Benjamin Mateus on the World Socialist Web Site on September 23, 2017.

Blood is extracted from the patient so their T-cells can be engineered to fight leukemia and then reintroduced into the body

Click Here to Read: What Your Dreams Actually Mean, According to Science by Jeffrey Kluger on the Time Magazine website on September 12, 2017.