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• MONDAY 12. JULY, 2010
• 10:30 Can Culture Make the California Condor Wild Again?

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  Researchers discover that social learning just might be the only way to save the extremely endangered species.  

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• 08:22 Human Perception: The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again

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  In an update of a famed Harvard experiment on human attention, researchers confirm that even when highly attuned, people have big blind spots in perception  

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• 08:22 Study: The Case for Universal Cholesterol Screening in Children

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  Current government recommendation suggest screening for high cholesterol in children with a family history of heart disease or high cholesterol, but this misses many at-risk kids  

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• SATURDAY 10. JULY, 2010
• 16:55 AIDS Vaccine: What Promise Do HIV Antibodies Hold?

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  Scientists reported this week the discovery of two antibodies that may prevent infection from 90% of circulating strains of HIV. But will the findings translate to an effective vaccine?  

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• 01:20 The Science of Cougar Sex: Why Older Women Lust

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  Despite the girls-gone-wild image of promiscuous college women, a new journal article suggests that women are actually more sexual in their 30s and 40s  

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• FRIDAY 9. JULY, 2010
• 08:23 The Cruelest Study: Why Break-ups Hurt

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  Using brain-imaging scans, researchers study the post-relationship feelings of jilted lovers still pining for their exes. Turns out, it looks a lot like addiction  

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• THURSDAY 8. JULY, 2010
• 10:23 Organic Eggs: More Expensive, But No Healthier

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  Free-range and organic chickens may be happier, but their eggs are no better for you than those from factory-bred chickens  

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• WEDNESDAY 7. JULY, 2010
• 16:50 Remembering Robert Butler, Guru of Growing Old Healthily

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  The advocate of long, healthy living and father of the term "ageism" dies at 83  

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• FRIDAY 2. JULY, 2010
• 15:10 Threat of the Urban Jungle: Falling Tree Branches

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  Of all the customary hazards of life in a big city, the threat of falling tree branches has not been one. But in the past year, they have killed two people in New York City  

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• 10:45 Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

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  A review paper in Science highlights intriguing research into the power of our unconscious mind -- and how easy it is to influence it  

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• THURSDAY 1. JULY, 2010
• 23:00 Study: Extreme Longevity May Be More Genes Than Lifestyle

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  How long you live has a lot to do with your environment and lifestyle, but exceptional longevity may have even more to do with your genes  

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• WEDNESDAY 30. JUNE, 2010
• 23:20 A New Exoplanet -- With Pictures to Prove It

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  Most planets are "seen" only indirectly, but a new one orbiting a distant star was detected with actual photographs  

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• TUESDAY 29. JUNE, 2010
• 09:23 Venus Had Water, May Have Been Habitable, Say Scientists

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  If the solar system has an underachiever, it has to be Venus. But if new findings from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft are correct, it looks like Venus could have been a contender. The reason: it once had water  

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• 09:23 Experts and Studies: Not Always Trustworthy

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  Two-thirds of the findings published in medical journals are refuted within a few years. Almost all economic studies are likely to be wrong. In his new book, Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us, David Freedman tells us to trust no one.  

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• 09:23 Studies Reignite Debate Over Statin Drugs for Healthy Patients

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  A collection of articles in a leading medical journal revisits the controversy over using cholesterol-lowering medications to prevent heart disease in healthy people  

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• MONDAY 28. JUNE, 2010
• 16:15 New Studies Question Safety of Diabetes Drug Avandia

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  Two new studies published in leading medical journals cast further doubt on the troubled diabetes drug, Avandia  

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• SUNDAY 27. JUNE, 2010
• 14:10 The BP Oil Spill Makes Landfall in Florida

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  Panhandle communities' luck runs out as oil begins washing ashore  

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• FRIDAY 25. JUNE, 2010
• 18:55 Gulf Oil Spill Long-Term Health Effects: How Bad?

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  As catastrophic as the Gulf oil spill has been for the environment and residents' livelihoods, experts say its impact on human health and well-being has not even begun to be quantified  

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• THURSDAY 24. JUNE, 2010
• 10:35 Have We Met Before? Women and Gay Men Most Apt to Know

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  Research from York University in Toronto has added a wrinkle to theexisting wisdom. It's not just women whose brains are so nimble, theinvestigators have determined, it's gay men too.  

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• WEDNESDAY 23. JUNE, 2010
• 00:35 Study: Folic Acid, B12 Don't Lower Heart Disease Risks

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  Despite previous research associating high levels of homocysteine, an amino acid in the blood, with heart disease risk, a new study finds no benefit in lowering patients' levels of the compound  

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• TUESDAY 22. JUNE, 2010
• 22:55 Why E-Mail May Be Hurting Offline Relationships

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  Hitting send is quick and efficient, but email communication may erode trust and weaken relationships -- and can hamper employees' effectiveness at the office, a new study finds  

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• 09:23 SpaghettiOs Recall: How Unsafe Food Is Pulled from Shops

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  While food-product recalls occur for reasons of varying urgency, they all have one thing in common: they're voluntary. Surprisingly, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn't actually have the power to recall food  

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• 00:30 Scientists Confirm Chimps, Like Humans, Go to War

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  One more way our simian cousins are like us  

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• MONDAY 21. JUNE, 2010
• 22:05 Scientists Release Songs Made By the Sun

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  The new discoveries could yield insights into how the sun itself operates  

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• SATURDAY 19. JUNE, 2010
• 07:30 Is Exercise the Best Drug for Depression?

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  It's no secret that exercise lifts mood, but some researchers believe it may even be powerful enough to treat depression  

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