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According to a US study, plucking hair in a specific pattern can lead to growth of more hair. Altering the density of hair removed changed the number of hair that grew again.

In the study, the team regenerated 1,300 hairs by plucking 200. The study has been published in Cell journal. According to experts, it was 'really nice science', but it is not clear that whether this could be a treatment for human baldness. By the age of 50, half of men have male-pattern baldness.

The team at the University of Southern California was studying how hair follicles interact with each other to choose the scale of repair job required. The researchers removed 200 hair follicles from a circular patch of skin in mice in a series of experiments.

According to researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, a brain scan can predict a child’s future language development after the child is known to be suffering from autism spectrum disorder. Published in the online edition of the journal Neuron, the study has established a strong relationship between irregularities in speech activation of the temporal cortex area of the brain and actual language ability in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.

“We wanted to see if patterns of brain activity in response to language can explain and predict how well language skills would develop in a toddler with ASD before that toddler actually began talking”, said Eric Courchesne, a professor of neurosciences and co-director of the Autism Center of Excellence at UCSD.

A new research has suggested that the plastic surgery is supposed to make your face look different, but the impacts of procedures can go far beyond a change in physical appearance. The study found that people may perceive your post-surgery personality differently.

According to a study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, people rated women with certain kinds of facial rejuvenation procedures as being more likeable, attractive and feminine as compared to the ones who hadn't yet undergone operations.

The study also found that the women who underwent the procedures were also perceived to have more social skills.

A novel study has unveiled that overweight or obese middle-aged people have lower risk of developing dementia than normal or underweight individuals.

The study involving nearly two million people found that overweight and obese people were 30% less likely to develop dementia 15 years later than people who were having a healthy weight.

It was also found that underweight people were having 34% more chances to develop dementia than those having normal weight. Dr. Nawab Qizilbash, from OXON Epidemiology Ltd. in Madrid, Spain, said that the research was able to show an association and not the cause and effect relationship.

Researchers at NASA have revealed that it is highly possible to make contact with alien life in near future. Ellen Stofan, chief scientist of NASA, said in a public event organized by the US space agency at its headquarters in Washington that chances are high that they get strong indications of life beyond earth within a decade. The evidence for it, according to Stofan, will be available to them within 20 to 30 years.

"We know where to look. We know how to look. In most cases we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it. And so I think we're definitely on the road", Stofan added.

Jeffery Newmark, acting director of heliophysics at NASA, said that the question is about 'when' rather than 'if'.

Local officials and scientists are keeping a close watch on a large chunk of fiberglass just off the Oregon coast that seems to be from a boat that might be part of the tsunami debris from the Japanese earthquake of 2011.

According to Chris Havel, a spokesman for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), the object was spotted just west of Ona Beach near Seal Rock and Newport and it is about 30 feet long.

Havel said that a team of state agencies are getting ready in order to retrieve the debris from the ocean. Some fish native to waters of Japan is found living on the object, involving one still alive. As per the officials, there were also a variety of yellowtail jack fish, and other sea life that clings to boats and debris.