Future Smart Cars Would Prevent Accidents
Researchers have set out to make cars far smarter than today’s models—especially when it comes to dealing with their twitchy, tweaky, all-too-human drivers.

Internet A Double Challenge For Libraries
Free Internet access is now one of the basic services Americans expect to find at the library, but according to a survey, only a fifth have enough computers and about half say their connection speed is too slow.

Bargain Hunting: 100+ Places to Find a Great Deal
Everyone’s obsessed with socially networked shopping now, but whatever happened to good old fashioned deal-finding sites? There are plenty still around, in fact, and lots of new ones launching everyday. We’ve assembled a monster collection of our favorite places to find deals.

Prenatal Testosterone May Play Autism Role
YORK (Reuters) – Children exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb showed more autism-related traits later in life, according to findings that suggest the male hormone may play a key role in the complex brain disorder.

Saying No to Yourself: The Neural Mechanisms of Self-Control
Brass and Haggard’s results … illuminate a very important aspect of the brain’s control of behavior — the ability to hold off doing something after you’ve developed the intention to do it , which one might call “free won’t” as opposed to free will.

Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants
Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants — a tactic that could be called health zoning.

U.S. Health Initiative Targets Aging Hispanics
They’re especially vulnerable to diabetes but often lack care, experts say

Medicare Spending Caps Cause Seniors to Stop Meds
In many cases, patients never take these important medications again, study finds

Schizophrenia Gene May Have On/Off Switch
Mouse study suggests new target for treatment, reseachers say

Smarts require teamwork in the brain
Like memory, human intelligence is probably not confined to a single area in the brain, but is instead the result of multiple brain areas working in concert, a new review of research suggests.

Gifted research parrot Alex found dead
A gifted parrot that could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials has died after 30 years of helping researchers better understand bird brains.

Chimps impress the ladies with stolen fruit
Pilfered fruit may be the secret to stolen love, at least for chimps.
And not just for Valentine’s Day.

Study: Early Humans Were Slowpokes
If early humans lacked an Achilles tendon like gorillas, as the study’s “reverse-engineered” computer models suggest, our ancestors would have had difficulty running. The lack of spring in their step would have kept their top speed to half that of a modern human while costing them twice the energy. Still, the study implies that walking upright would have been more efficient than lumbering around like other primates.

Fossil shows traces of first modern ears
Scientists find that prehistoric reptiles from Russia apparently possessed the first modern ears 260 million years ago — perhaps the first-known specialized trait for living in the dark.

Fossil shows parents doted 260 million years ago
LONDON (Reuters) – Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems.

Opportunity to enter Mars’ Victoria Crater
Two months after surviving a Martian dust bowl, the NASA rover Opportunity Tuesday began a risky drive into a giant crater blasted open by a meteor impact eons ago.