NFL Players at Higher Risk for Brain Diseases

Please add Discovery@discoverymail.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. If you are having trouble viewing this email with images, click here.

NFL Players at Higher Risk for Brain Diseases         A study shows NFL players are nearly four times more likely than the general population to die from Alzheimer's and other brain diseases. Read More WATCH VIDEO: Football Helmets Detect Concussions A new padding design in football helmets doesn't just protect players' heads better, it can prevent serious injury. Bear Encounters: More to Come?         Hunger and drought can drive bears toward populated areas. Could feeding them be the answer? Read More WATCH VIDEO: Border Wall Could Block Wildlife A fence along the U.S.-Mexico border could block migrating jaguars and other animals that live in both countries. Harnessing Solar Energy to Sail to the Stars         The solar system is bathed in solar energy -- can we use it to propel spacecraft to the planets and beyond? Read More WATCH VIDEO: NASA Unfurls Solar Sail Yachts in space? Maybe, if NASA's plans to use photons from the sun to power a small satellite prove successful. Biblical-Scale Floods: No Joke         The Biblical figure Noah might not have been the only one bobbing along on the waves of a world-destroying flood. Read More WATCH VIDEO: The Challenge of Flood Prediction Predicting the height of a flood in important when lives are at stake, but it's not easy. Follow Discovery News on Facebook! Get your sci-tech headlines all day on Twitter too! Follow us @Discovery_News. At Discovery we value your privacy. If you would like to be removed from Discovery News emails like this, please click here to our subscription center, where you can manage your account. We recently updated our privacy policy. This policy is effective as of 10/30/07. To see new policy click here . Discovery Communications, LLC One Discovery Place Silver Spring, MD 20910 © 2010 Discovery Communications, LLC