Children born to fathers older than 30 are more likely to develop bipolar disorder, a common condition sometimes known as manic depression, researchers reported on Monday. The paternal risk also grows with the age of a father, rising to 37 percent by the time a man is 55 years, said Emma Frans, an epidemiologist...
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Ancient Urban Communities Discovered in the Amazon
Anthropologists from Brazil and the US have uncovered Amazonian settlements in Brazil dating from about 1250 to 1650, before European colonists came in. The findings, reported in the journal Science, show that these towns were more developed than previously thought, making up actual networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organized around a...
Google Earth to get better with new Satellite tieup
Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of New Mexico in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened imagery for the entire country in...
