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Traumatic Experiences Can Be Inherited From Parent to Child

Can a traumatic experience, or any change in our lifestyle be transmitted genetically to our children? This phenomenon, called Epigenetic inheritance has been linked in a multitude of diseases, from obesity to psychiatric problems like bipolar disorder where there is a gene that is clearly identified. But up to this date, no mechanism by which this occurs has been identified. A team of […]Load more...

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New Software Can Age the Face of a Child

In less than a minute, a child’s face can be aged to show what he or she will look like when older. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a software that automatically generates images of the face of a young child to age through life. The technique is the first fully automated approach for the aging of the image […]Load more...

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At Least Three Killed When Man Opens Fire On Two

At least three people were killed today as a result of the two shootings that have been registered at two Jewish centers on the outskirts of Kansas City according to local media reports. The suspect in the deaths, a 70-year-old man has already been arrested. According to the police, he was arrested about a mile from the residential center, and, […]Load more...

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Woman Arrested In Utah After Corpses of Seven Babies Found

Police in the state of Utah have arrested a woman after having found in her former home the corpses of seven babies that were hidden in cardboard boxes. Megan Huntsman, a 39 year old woman, has been detained in Pleasant Grove after this macabre discovery at the house in which she lived until 2011, according to police sources. […]Load more...

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Trial of Gadafi’s Son Begins in Libya

The trial of Saif al-Islam, son of the deposed President Muamar Gadafi, accused of corruption and war crimes began in Libya. Along with Saif al-Islam, other senior officials of the Gadafi government will be prosecuted, among them, the ex-Chief of Intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi and the former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi. Saif al-Islam, who is imprisoned in Zintan, […]Load more...

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Pistorius Trial Temporarily Adjourned

The trial against the athlete Oscar Pistorius was temporarily adjourned when he broke into sobs as he testified about the moment in which he shot at his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The lawyers asked him what exactly he said when he approached the bathroom. And it was at that time when he began to cry. On […]Load more...

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Nigeria: 71 Dead in Two Explosions

At least 71 people were killed in two explosions that rocked a bus station in the outskirts of the capital of Abuja, Nigeria. The police said that 130 others were injured in the explosions, which occurred when the bus station was packed with travelers. The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, who visited the scene, blamed […]Load more...

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The WTO Predicts Upturn in World Trade in 2014

Global trade is expected to pick up in 2014 after two years of decline, according to the World Trade Organization. The Organization, based in Geneva, predicts a trade growth of 4.7%, more than double from the previous year. But he warned that only in 2015 will global trade return to the average level of the […]Load more...

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Ukraine Government Requests the Dispatch of Peacekeeping Troops

The President of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, called for the deployment of peacekeeping troops in the east of the country, where Russian activists continue occupying government buildings. Turchynov issued his statement after pro-Russian groups attacked another government official in the city of Horlivka on Monday. Video scenes show more than a hundred activists attacking the building […]Load more...