Click Here to Read: Genes Suggest European Women at Root of Ashkenazi Family Tree By Nicholas Wade in The New York Times on October 8, 2013.
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Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?
Under the microscope: The effect of loneliness on physical and mental health
Click Here to Read: Under the microscope: The effect of loneliness on physical and mental health By Ruchi Shah on The Statesman of Stoney Brook University website on October 3, 2013.
Turhan Canli, Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience, plans to continue examining differentially expressed hereditary and epigenetic genes. (JIA YAO / THE STATESMAN)
Click Here to Purchase: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira, and Arthur A. Lynch.
Depression Tied to Parkinson’s Risk
For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov
Hundreds of open access journals accept fake science paper
Click Here to Read: Hundreds of open access journals accept fake science paper. Publishing hoax exposes ‘wild west’ world of open access journals and raises concerns about poor quality control by Clair Shaw on the Guardian website October 4, 2013.
A fake scientific paper has fooled 157 open access journals. Photograph: Getty Images
NASA scientists announce historic leap in human exploration
Click Here to Read: NASA scientists announce historic leap in human exploration Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space By Kevin Reed on the World Socialist Web Site on October 4, 2013.
The Space Between: This artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. [Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]