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Yale School of Medicine researchers have discovered how to measure an infant’s risk of developing autism by looking for abnormalities in his or her placenta at birth.

This allows for earlier diagnosis and treatment for the developmental disorder. The findings are reported in the April 25 online issue of Biological Psychiatry.

Learn more about the discovery on YaleNews →

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Stewart Brand (Ed.): Whole Earth Catalog. Access to Tools, Spring 1969 (Backcover) — via The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2013, curated by: Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke 

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In its four years exploring the depths of space, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found 132 potentially habitable planets and another 2,740 candidates. Marcelo Gleiser writes about astronomy’s journey from philosophical to scientific and the consequence of new discovery:

“Of course, if other Earths existed, the centrality of ours would be threatened. This was, and remains, an essential question in the debate on the plurality of worlds: are we unique and hence important in some sense, or are we the norm and typical of what’s out there across the vastness of space?”

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