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April 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Jupiter Moon's Puzzling Volcanoes The hundreds of volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io aren't where they're supposed to be, scientists say. Continue reading... How This Destroyed Ecosystem Came Back To Life NASA Announces Bold Plans For 2017 COUNTDOWN: Top Stories In Science This Week WATCH: 3D Printer Creates Human-Like Cells Solar Simulation Shows 'Heartbeat' That Pumps Out Sunspots, Solar Flares Vintage Photos Spotlight Bizarre Nazi Concept Weapon WATCH: Tiny Tentacled 'Monsters' Found In Animal's Guts Coma Study Spotlights Strange Power Of Near-Death Experiences Coma Study Spotlights Strange Power Of Near-Death Experiences WATCH: Tiny Tentacled 'Monsters' Found In Animal's Guts Record-Setting Star Explosion Spied By Space Telescope BEN GOLDACRE WATCH: What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed choices, with their patients, about which treatment to use. But the best currently available evidence estimates that half of all clinical trials, for the treatments we use today, have never been published. Continue reading... JAMES M. GENTILE BRAIN Initiative: A Bold Venture Into Brain Science Launched with approximately $100 million in initial funding, BRAIN is a high-risk, high-reward effort that will provide basic but significant research insights in neuroscience and will have a major applied impact on health and human well-being far into the future. Continue reading... PAUL RAEBURN Did Time Magazine Offer Favorable Coverage to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center? Did Time promise M.D. Anderson favorable coverage in return for buying the ad? Both Time and M.D. Anderson told me that did not happen. But there are reasons to be suspicious. Continue reading... AMITAI ETZIONI Individualism vs. Social Science NPR's social science maven reported that President Obama may have undermined the success of gun control legislation when he stated that "We are responsible for each other." Americans, Shankar Vendantam stated, care about individual rights and liberty, not the common good. Continue reading... MARK MCCLELLAND Brain Mapping: Will We Be Ready For Humanity 2.0? If you could transfer your mind into a body that needs no sleep, suffers no pain, is made entirely of replaceable parts, and might allow you to live forever, would you? Add to the bargain a vastly improved IQ and the ability to retain everything you learn. It's the promise of mind uploading -- the transfer of a human mind into a computer -- and it may be feasible during the lifetime of today's teens. The implications are profound, and reach into every aspect of who we are and what we are capable of. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.