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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Eating almonds could help prevent diabetes and heart disease, say scientists

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1342476/Eating-almonds-help-prevent-diabetes-heart-disease-say-scientists.html

Water Science Photo Gallery All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/2010/gallery/global-water-volume.html

When the Black Hole Was Born: Astronomers Identify the Epoch of the First Fast Growth of Black Holes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101227101113.htm

98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Ideal Temperature for Keeping Fungi Away and Food at Bay

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222121610.htm

Coma and General Anesthesia Demonstrate Important Similarities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101229190012.htm

Catching Video Pirates: Invisible DNA-Like Fingerprint on Video Assist Law Enforcement

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101841.htm

Back to the Dead Sea: Climate Change Study Digs Into Half a Million Years of History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223104034.htm

Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101920.htm

Science Supports Carb Wars

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/081089-2010-12-30-science-supports-carb-wars.htm

Wild Seed Collecting

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/wild-seed-collecting.html

Amygdala Centre for Social Network

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/amygdala-centre-for-social-network.html

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Scientists unveil chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342100/Scientists-unveil-1-000-core-chip-make-desktop-machines-20-times-faster.html

Tory voters found to have larger 'primitive' lobe in brain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342239/Brain-study-reveals-right-wing-conservatives-larger-primitive-amygdala.html

Brilliant at business deals? It's all in the genes, reveal scientists By COLIN FERNANDEZ

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342254/Brilliant-business-deals-Its-genes-reveal-scientists.html

Dust Shatters Like Glass: Several Times More Dust Particles in Atmosphere Than Previously Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101227203436.htm

Environmental Factors Limit Species Diversity, Lizard Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220163248.htm

Many Cancer Cells Found to Have an 'Eat Me' Signal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222141722.htm

Finest Chocolate May Get Better: Cacao Tree Genome Sequenced

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101226131600.htm

New Clues Uncover How 'Starvation Hormone' Works

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101227100822.htm

When the Black Hole Was Born: Astronomers Identify the Epoch of the First Fast Growth of Black Holes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101227101113.htm

Major Obstacles to Cellulosic Biofuel Production Overcome With New Yeast Strain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101227203428.htm

How Often Do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220135611.htm

Big Bang Chatter

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080985-2010-12-28-big-bang-chatter.htm

Biological Hydrogen Production

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080983-2010-12-28-biological-hydrogen-production.htm

Petro Fracking Booms NAFTA Oil Resources

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080982-2010-12-28-petro-fracking-booms-nafta-oil-resources.htm

Why Teach Programming With BASIC?

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0036216/Why-Teach-Programming-With-BASIC

Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0621237/Living-Earth-Simulator-Aims-To-Simulate-Everything

IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/171246/IBM-Makes-a-Super-Memory-Breakthrough

The Ultimate Mystery of the Universe STEPHEN WOLFRAM

http://bigthink.com/ideas/25587

Parts of Me Ooze in All Directions MICHIO KAKU

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24636

New dyes improve solar technologies for generating clean electricity and hydrogen fuel

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-dyes-solar-technologies-electricity-hydrogen.html

"Dark Flow" of Billions of Stars Racing Towards Edge of Observable Universe (Best of 2010)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3ywWYB/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/dark-flow-of-billions-of-stars-dark-flow-racing-away-from-earth-towards-edge-of-observable-universe-.html

Info pirates seek a decentralised Internet

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=625603

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

In the Evolutionary Mating Game, Brawn and Stealth Rule, Scientists Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223083640.htm

Genetic Variant That Can Lead to Severe Impulsivity Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131121.htm

Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209164146.htm

Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/27/0249251

North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/27/1416233

California Rare-Earth Mine Reopens

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/27/1734204

MIT biologists decipher 3 billion year old genetic 'fossil'

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080907-2010-12-27-mit-biologists-decipher-3-billion-year-old-genetic-fossil.htm

Monday, December 27, 2010

Part of Brain That Suppresses Instinct Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112112.htm

Learning to Read the Genome: Most Detailed Annotation of Fruit-Fly Genome Points Way to Understanding All Organisms' Genomes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131131.htm

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: New Global Search to Save Endangered Crop Wild Relatives

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209201938.htm

Ever-Sharp Urchin Teeth May Yield Tools That Never Need Honing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222162404.htm

Mammalian Aging Process Linked to Overactive Cellular Pathway

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131125.htm

How to tame the monsters in your mind Experts call them ANTS - Automatic Negative Thoughts and unless you learn how to stop them, they'll ruin your life By LOUISE ATKINSON

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1341787/How-tame-monsters-mind-Experts-ANTS--Automatic-Negative-Thoughts-unless-learn-stop-theyll-ruin-life.html

Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion

http://games.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/26/0139226

Worried scientists warn: World could run out of breathable air

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080822-2010-12-25-worried-scientists-warn-world-could-run-out-of-breathable-air.htm

Get ready: They're going to put chips in your brain

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080809-2010-12-24-get-ready-theyre-going-to-put-chips-in-your-brain.htm

New generation of deadly Chinese missiles can now sink all US Navy supercarriers

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080808-2010-12-24-new-generation-of-deadly-chinese-missiles-can-now-sink-all.htm

Someday soon you'll fly without pilots

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080807-2010-12-24-someday-soon-youll-fly-without-pilots.htm

2011 sun storms could slam USA back to 1800s

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080806-2010-12-24-2011-sun-storms-could-slam-usa-back-to-1800s.htm

Device uses sunlight to make liquid fuel

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080850-2010-12-26-device-uses-sunlight-to-make-liquid-fuel.htm

Coral Reef Bleaching Cause

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080848-2010-12-26-coral-reef-bleaching-cause.htm

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Facebook, PayPal tycoon embraces sci-fi future By MARCUS WOHLSEN

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/25/AR2010122501062.html

Cornstarch Might Have Ended the Gulf Spill Agony Sooner

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222093208.htm

How Cells Running on Empty Trigger Fuel Recycling

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223144028.htm

Fast Sepsis Test Can Save Lives

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112231.htm

Pterygotid Sea Scorpions: No Terror of the Ancient Seas?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222173039.htm

Site in Brain Where Leptin May Trigger Puberty Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222121511.htm

How to Delay Christmas Tree Needle Loss

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206111450.htm

Most Challenging Christmas Plastic Wrapping Could Be Recycled With New Technology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214085738.htm

NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223110056.htm

Bite Me An evolutionary case for cannibalism. By Jesse Bering

http://www.slate.com/id/2278240/pagenum/all/

Your food's in the printer... the machine that lets you create and eat your meal from freshly squeezed syringes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341481/Your-foods-printer--machine-lets-create-eat-meal-freshly-squeezed-syringes.html

Patch Adams, M.D. - Transform 2010 - Mayo Clinic - video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCrPBqQALc

Friday, December 24, 2010

Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/23/2212250/Scientifically-You-Are-Likely-In-the-Slowest-Line

Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/568427-eight-year-old-children-publish-bee-study-in-royal-society-journal

The Tipping Point of Humanness

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/23/1559217

Does Equality Increase Status Spending?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112235.htm

Invention Could Improve Cancer Drug Delivery, Lessen Harmful Effects of Chemotherapy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223091744.htm

'Un-Growth Hormone' Increases Longevity, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223091746.htm

Shouldering Family Demands and Worries Bumps Up Angina Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222205349.htm

Simple Screen Can Help Isolate Virulent Parts of Pathogenic Bacteria Gene Structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223113347.htm

How Cells Running on Empty Trigger Fuel Recycling

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223144028.htm

Why positive thinking helps the body to heal: Knowingly taking a placebo makes you feel better By DAVID DERBYSHIRE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1340967/Why-positive-thinking-helps-body-heal-Knowingly-taking-placebo-makes-feel-better.html

First High-Temp Spin-Field-Effect Transistor Created

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223144034.htm

Mars Movie: I'm Dreaming of a Blue Sunset

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222170555.htm

You Are What Your Father Ate, Too: Paternal Diet Affects Lipid Metabolizing Genes in Offspring, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223130149.htm

Protein Involved in Early Steps of Melanoma Development Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223171947.htm

New Fossil Site in China Shows Long Recovery of Life from the Largest Extinction in Earth's History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222093204.htm

Discovery Suggests a New Way to Prevent HIV from Infecting Human Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222173041.htm

Eating Less Healthy Fish May Contribute to America's Stroke Belt

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222162358.htm

Weird and Wonderful Plant and Fungal Discoveries of 2010

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101219124718.htm

Scientist Uncovers Switch Controlling Protein Production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131133.htm

When Will Runners and Swimmers Reach Their Physical Limit?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222093200.htm

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Human-Sized German Workerbot Is Programmed to Be Happiest When It Stays Busy The machine can fit into existing assembly line positions and work all day and all night By Rebecca Boyle

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/grinning-european-workerbot-happiest-when-it-stays-busy

Naval Rail Gun Fires at 7 Mach

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080733-2010-12-23-naval-rail-gun-fires-at-7-mach.htm

DC Renaissance

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080732-2010-12-23-dc-renaissance.htm

Scar Prevention Discovery

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080730-2010-12-23-scar-prevention-discovery.htm

Horrifying gigantic 5-foot spiders seen in Congo

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080724-2010-12-23-horrifying-gigantic-5-foot-spiders-seen-in-congo.htm

New Single-Pixel Photo Camera Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220094601.htm

Component in Common Dairy Foods May Cut Diabetes Risk, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220200000.htm

Most Common Adult Brain Cancer Linked to Gene Deletion, Doctors Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222173031.htm

Cassini Finishes Sleigh Ride by Saturn's Icy Moons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222170713.htm

Photons Vs. Protons for Treatment of Spinal Cord Gliomas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112225.htm

New Annotated Database Sifts Through Mountains of Sequencing Data to Find Gene Promoters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222141734.htm

Smoking May Worsen Pain for Cancer Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221114805.htm

Young Female Chimpanzees Treat Sticks as Dolls: Growing Evidence of Biological Basis for Gender-Specific Play in Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220121109.htm

Genetic Trait Could Triple Odds of Whites' Susceptibility to Heavy Cocaine Abuse

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101926.htm

Sex Reversal Gene: Male Mice Can Be Created Without Y Chromosome Via Ancient Brain Gene

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222121513.htm

Why Do Risks With Human Characteristics Make Powerful Consumers Feel Lucky?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112233.htm

Blue-Green Algae Tested for Treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101833.htm

Eating Healthier Means Living Longer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222071727.htm

A Robot With Finger-Tip Sensitivity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112239.htm

New Ideas Enhance Efficiency of Wind Turbines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220110856.htm

Universe's Most Massive Stars Can Form in Near Isolation, New Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221131550.htm

Toxin-Laden Nectar Poses Problems for Honeybees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101847.htm

Gene Alteration Identified That Predisposes to Syndrome With High Risk of Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221163828.htm

Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131119.htm

Discovery of New Molecule Could Lead to More Efficient Rocket Fuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222071831.htm

Membership in Many Groups Leads to Quick Recovery from Physical Challenges

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215141921.htm

Africa Has Two Elephant Species, Genetic Analysis Confirms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221172244.htm

Sea-Level Study Brings Good and Bad News to Chesapeake Bay

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101922.htm

Laser Twinkles in Rare Color

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221154532.htm

Smarter Systems Help Busy Doctors Remember

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221172248.htm

Book Review: The Immortality Edge Dr. Joseph S. Maresca, Basil & Spice

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10535&Section=NUTRITION&source=DHB_101223&key=Body+Title

Sperm cells created from female embryo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3323846/Sperm-cells-created-from-female-embryo.html

Time-Lapse Video: Last Night's Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse For those who slept through it By Clay Dillow

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/video-last-nights-lunar-eclipse-time-lapsed

Nanotech Makes Single Molecule Glow, Showing New Promise For Tiny Optoelectronics By Rebecca Boyle

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/molecular-circuit-emights-light-nanoscale-showing-new-promise-tiny-optoelectronics

Engineers Build Radio Receiver Out Of Graphene A nanotrampoline built out of graphene can directly detect radio frequency signals, paving the way for a new generation of radios

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26194/?p1=A4

Killer Drones Converge on California, Ready to Take Off

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/killer-drones-converge-on-california-ready-to-take-off/

End of Military-Industrial Hegemony?

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/080678-2010-12-22-end-of-military-industrial-hegemony.htm

Munich to switch on Europe's fastest supercomputer

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101220-31929.html

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

DNA says new human relative roamed widely in Asia By MALCOLM RITTER

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/567654-dna-says-new-human-relative-roamed-widely-in-asia

Samples of Vital Human Tumor Tissue Irradiated With Ions for the First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145655.htm

Electronic Nose Detects Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220121103.htm

Organic Electronic Ratchets Doing Work

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217152524.htm

A 'Spin Ratchet' Paves the Way for Spin Computers: New Electronic Structure for Generating Spin Current

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142525.htm

Unprecedented Topographic Map of the Moon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217192858.htm

Genetic Basis of Brain Diseases: Set of Proteins Account for Over 130 Brain Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101219140817.htm

Engineers Take Plasmon Lasers out of Deep Freeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220091923.htm

Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220150343.htm

Raindrops Reveal How a Wave of Mountains Moved South Across the Country

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145922.htm

Strange New Twist: Researchers Discover Möbius Symmetry in Metamaterials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220150938.htm

Electric Current Moves Magnetic Vortices: With the Help of Neutrons, Physicists Discover New Ways to Save Data

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145653.htm

Biomagnification of Nanomaterials in Simple Food Chain Demonstrated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220142436.htm

Being Good Moms Couldn't Save the Woolly Mammoth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221114807.htm

Cellular Mechanism Responsible for Chronic Inflammation, Type 2 Diabetes Uncovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101845.htm

Study Links Emotional and Neural Responses to Musical Performance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091205.htm

Beautiful People Convey Personality Traits Better During First Impressions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221101830.htm

Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220163052.htm

Boosting Supply of Key Brain Chemical Reduces Fatigue in Mice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220163250.htm

Warning Lights Mark Shellfish That Aren't Safe to Eat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215133329.htm

Novel Weight-Loss Therapies? Scientists Identify Cells in Mice That Can Transform Into Energy-Burning Brown Fat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220163055.htm

Dementia: When the Zebra Loses Its Stripes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220084204.htm

Scientists Identify a Spontaneously Chain-Reacting Molecule

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101212145221.htm

Trace Amounts of Water Created Oceans on Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208154442.htm

UA research: Oregano oil may counter carcinogens Becky Pallack

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10562&Section=NUTRITION&source=DHB_101222&key=Body+Title

Quantum mechanics, invisibility cloaks and water on Mars: The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past decade

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339466/Quantum-mechanics-invisibility-cloaks-water-Mars-The-biggest-scientific-breakthroughs-past-decade.html

Don't make mine a pina colada! Images of cocktails under the microscope that'll give you a headache BEFORE you drink them

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339967/Images-alcoholic-drinks-microscope-vodka-cocktails-pina-colada.html

Boy born to save his big sister: 'Saviour sibling' brings hope to his family and makes medical history By RACHEL ELLIS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1340611/Saviour-sibling-brings-hope-family-makes-medical-history.html

Stressed? It may boost your memory by triggering thoughts of everyday experiences

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340670/Stressed-It-boost-memory-triggering-thoughts-painful-experiences.html

A Christmas tree miracle: Pine bark could ease the misery of UK's 7 million tinnitus sufferers By CLAIRE ELLICOTT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1340535/A-Christmas-tree-miracle-Pine-bark-ease-misery-UKs-7-million-tinnitus-sufferers.html

Why the eyes are the key to making our faces look 'human'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1340493/Why-eyes-key-making-faces-look-human.html

Can We Automate Invention? STEPHEN WOLFRAM

Monday, December 20, 2010

Invasive species have a 'delayed legacy', says report By Mark Kinver

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12041943

Despite Longer Life Spans, Fewer Years Are Disease-Free

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213140950.htm

Three Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils Deciphered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101219140815.htm

Construction of the World's Largest Neutrino Observatory Completed: Antarctica's IceCube

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101219083814.htm

How Do You Cut a Nanotube? Lots of Compression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145659.htm

You Only Live Once: Our Flawed Understanding of Risk Helps Drive Financial Market Instability

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145926.htm

Elevated Zinc Concentrations in Colorado Waterway Likely a Result of Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215121910.htm

Unlocking the Secrets of Our Compulsions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208132214.htm

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Does Fluoride Really Fight Cavities by 'the Skin of the Teeth?'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215121918.htm

Wind Turbines Help Crops by Channelling Beneficial Breezes Over Nearby Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216122014.htm

Protein Disables P53, Drives Breast Cells Toward Cancer Transition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215133318.htm

Using Digitized Books as 'Cultural Genome,' Researchers Unveil Quantitative Approach to Humanities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142519.htm

Drinking Alcohol During a Rich Meal Slows Down Digestion, but Doesn't Increase Indigestion, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214201525.htm

Prions Mutate and Adapt to Host Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217083232.htm

Major Shift in Understanding How Eczema Develops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145920.htm

Circadian Rhythm: Clock-Controlled Genes Discovered in C. Elegans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091210.htm

Emotional Intelligence Peaks as We Enter Our 60s, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142534.htm

Rise in Oxygen Drove Evolution of Animal Life 550 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145647.htm

The rise of the genome bloggers Hobbyists add depth to ancestry trawls.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/468880a.html

Hunkier than thou Scientists are finally succeeding where so many men have failed: in understanding why women find some guys handsome and others hideous

http://www.economist.com/node/17672806

First Measurement of Magnetic Field In Earth's Core

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/18/0158207

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Online Access With a Fingerprint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215082942.htm

Looking Back in Time to See Stars Bursting Into Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217083237.htm

An Answer to Green Energy Could Be in the Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213111127.htm

Science's Breakthrough of the Year: The First Quantum Machine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142513.htm

Cyclone Lasting More Than Five Years Is Detected on Saturn

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215083226.htm

Where Unconscious Memories Form

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215151307.htm

The Birth of Time: Quantum Loops Describe the Evolution of the Universe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216095014.htm

Mom's Voice Plays Special Role in Activating Newborn's Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215195234.htm

Ion Channel Responsible for Pain Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217145932.htm

What God looks like in your brain: Scans show more activity when religious people meditate

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339517/God-brain-Scans-activity-religious-people-meditate.html

Friday, December 17, 2010

Inside TSA scanners: How terahertz waves tear apart human DNA

http://www.helium.com/items/2037343-tsa-terahertz-scanners-tear-apart-human-dna

Introducing Google Body: The new 3D medical browser that will make us all doctors

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339065/Introducing-Google-Body-Video-reveals-new-3D-medical-browser-make-doctors.html

Brain only fully 'matures' in middle age, claims neuroscientist You might think that you become fully matur when you turn 21 but new research suggests that your brain does not stop developing until your late 40s.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8204782/Brain-only-fully-matures-in-middle-age-claims-neuroscientist.html

The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutesin the world. By Jim Erickson

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/vatican_observe_000716.html

Star of Wonder What did the Three Wise Men really see over Bethlehem? By Ted Harrison

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/4849/star_of_wonder.html

Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Found to Enhance Survival and Maturation of Key Brain Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214142741.htm

Ancient Egyptian Math Identical To Math In Modern Computers (VIDEO)

http://welcometoafreeworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/ancient-egyptian-math-identical-to-math.html

Snail Fever: Scientists Pinpoint Key Defense Against Parasite Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101108140538.htm

How Pollinators Sculpt Flowers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110213040.htm

Holography With Electrons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216152221.htm

Exploring How Partners Perceive Each Other’s Emotion During a Relationship Fight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216161514.htm

Computer Memory Takes a Spin: Physicists Read Data After Storing Them in Atomic Nuclei for 112 Seconds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142511.htm

Staph Bacteria: Blood-Sucking Superbug Prefers Taste of Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215121908.htm

Newly Discovered Phase Helps Explain Materials' Ability to Convert Waste Heat to Electricity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142515.htm

Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142523.htm

Physicist Developing, Improving Designer Optical Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216142532.htm

Teacher Effort Is Linked to Difficult Students' Inherited Traits

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216122016.htm

Garlic Could Protect Against Hip Osteoarthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216101833.htm

Hot Plasma Explosions Inflate Saturn's Magnetic Field

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215195419.htm

E-Cigs Less Dangerous Than Traditional Cigarettes, Researcher Claims

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216102116.htm

Sea Level History Refined

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/sea-level-history-refined.html

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Space Race Heats Up With Mini-Shuttle Spaceplane Design

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/16/space-race-orbital-sciences-mini-shuttle-spaceplane/

UPDATE 1-U.S. missile-defense test fails over Pacific

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1566818820101215

NASA's Odyssey Spacecraft Sets Exploration Record on Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215195304.htm

Similarities in the Embryonic Development of Various Animal Species Are Also Found at Molecular Level

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215112815.htm

Rare Earth Metal and Cousin of Platinum Is Attractive for Improving Flash Memory Chips

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214100229.htm

Plasma Therapy: An Alternative to Antibiotics?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215092248.htm

New Method for Making Tiny Catalysts Holds Promise for Air Quality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215133542.htm

Fabric Softener Sheets Repel Gnats: Scientists Prove Bounce Sheets Fend Off Insect Pests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102308.htm

New Aspirin Mechanism

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-aspirin-mechanism_16.html

MISSION SUMMARY: SPACEX’S DRAGON SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY RETURNS FROM ORBIT

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/080305-2010-12-15-spacexs-dragon-spacecraft-successfully-returns-from-orbit.htm

Meteorite Just One Piece of an Unknown Celestial Body

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215151305.htm

Feast, Famine and the Genetics of Obesity: You Can't Have It Both Ways

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215133310.htm

Close Proximity of Authors Leads to Better Science

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215193052.htm

New Hot Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214085333.htm

Nanoscale Gene 'Ignition Switch' May Help Spot and Treat Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215113249.htm

Epstein-Barr: Scientists Decode Secrets of a Very Common Virus That Can Cause Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215121905.htm

'Aha' Effect: New Hypothesis Seeks to Explain the Pleasures of Insight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102440.htm

Novel Memory-Enhancing Mechanism in Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214122852.htm

Positive Mood Allows Human Brain to Think More Creatively

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215113253.htm

Is Internet Backbone Vulnerable to Cyber Attack?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214085539.htm

A fountain of youth in your muscles

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10518&Section=AGING&source=DHB_101216&key=Body+Title

Atomic Weight Not So Constant

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/15/014204

Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/15/1732222

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

IBM To Build 3-Petaflop Supercomputer

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/14/0558223

Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/14/1451216

Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup

http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/14/1629250

Cool video: Watch 200 Years of Global Health-Wealth Growth In 4 Minutes

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/14/1814253

Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/14/183228

Girl, 4, sees parents for the first time thanks to miracle stem cell operation

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1338555/Our-4-year-old-daughter-time-thanks-miracle-stem-cell-operation.html

The beauty of a good night's sleep: Why eight hours' shut-eye really does improve your looks By SOPHIE BORLAND

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1338662/Beauty-sleep-concept-Why-40-winks-really-does-improve-looks.html

The incredible jet lag pill that slows down your body clock to help you catch up on sleep By DAVID DERBYSHIRE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1338583/The-incredible-jet-lag-pill-slows-body-clock-help-catch-up.html

Hubble Spots a Celestial Bauble

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214111908.htm

Post-9/11 Security Zones Blight Landscape, Create 'Architecture of Fear'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214141941.htm

Power and Corruption May Be Good for Society

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214181934.htm

Vaccine Boosts Immune System, Helps Prevent Chronic Inflammation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214100242.htm

High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol May Be Associated With Lower Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213163758.htm

Satellites Pinpoint Drivers of Urban Heat Islands in Northeastern U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213163849.htm

US EPA Removes Saccharin from Hazardous Substances Listing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214183442.htm

Smoking Behind More Than a Third of Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Cases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213201859.htm

Geologist's Discoveries Resolve Debate About Oxygen in Earth's Mantle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214112040.htm

Sweet and Biodegradable: Sugar and Cornstarch Make Environmentally Safer Plastics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214111919.htm

What 'Pine' Cones Reveal About the Evolution of Flowers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101214111911.htm

New Evidence That Magnetism Is Driving Force Behind Superconductivity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213121751.htm

'Fountain of Youth' Pill Could Restore Aging Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213140945.htm

A Benefit of Flu: Protection from Asthma?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213130847.htm

Over Long Haul, Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213151407.htm

Parasite and Bacterium Illustrate Convergent Evolution: Both Hijack Cells' 'Post Office'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213101847.htm

Acupuncture May Help Some Older Children With Lazy Eye

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213163804.htm

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Statistical Analysis of Terrorism

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/13/2250249/Statistical-Analysis-of-Terrorism

Fasting Mythology

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/fasting-mythology.html

The Great Solar Eruption

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/great-solar-eruption.html

The Human Incubator By TINA ROSENBERG

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/the-human-incubator/

Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die-off of Bees? The New York Times essentially called it 'case closed' on Colony Collapse Disorder, but there is good reason to be wary about their reporting. - Tom Laskawy

http://www.alternet.org/story/148545/have_we_really_solved_the_mystery_behind_the_shocking_die-off_of_bees

5 of the Weirdest New Genetically Modified Foods The future of our global food supply is laden with seeds, and most recently animals, modified for human consumption. You may be surprised to see what's on the horizon. - Sara Novak

http://www.alternet.org/story/149152/5_of_the_weirdest_new_genetically_modified_foods

More Details of Plant Cell-Wall Construction Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213151403.htm

Smartphone Technology Improves Prosthetic Limbs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213071108.htm

How Saturn's Moon Iapetus Got Its Ridge

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213075121.htm

Physicists Make Atoms and Dark Matter Add Up

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101129102456.htm

Contorting Batteries: Charging Makes Nano-Sized Electrodes Swell, Elongate and Spiral

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141138.htm

When It Comes to Selecting a Mate, the Eyes Have It

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213140948.htm

Oldest Fossils Found in Cordillera Bética Mountain Range

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213071113.htm

Bering Sea Was Ice-Free and Full of Life During Last Warm Period, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213111437.htm

Highly Unidirectional 'Whispering Gallery' Microlasers Created

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213151415.htm

Bioengineers Discover How Particles Self-Assemble in Flowing Fluids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213163841.htm

Ubiquitous Sugar Molecule Could Be Key to Repairing Deep Wound Without Scarring

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101212121734.htm

Pomegranate Juice Components Could Stop Cancer from Spreading, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101212121741.htm

Whey Supplements Lower Blood Pressure: Low-Cost Protein Gets Big Results in People With Elevated Blood Pressure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125624.htm

Brain's Inherent Ability to Focus Learning Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125615.htm

On, Off, On, Off: The Circuitry of Insulin-Releasing Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209185602.htm

More Fruits and Vegetables Unlikely to Protect Against Cancer, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210110703.htm

Scientist Shows Link Between Diet and Onset of Mental Illness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213151446.htm

Right or Left Handling at Birth: What Impact Does It Have on Development?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213122001.htm

Carbon Fluxes in the Oceans: The Strange Behavior of Small Particles at Density Interfaces

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125759.htm

: LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/13/1559233

First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/13/166253

A Bionic Leg That Rewires Stroke Victims' Brains

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/13/192201

Study Suggests Saturn's Rings Made By Ancient Moon Death Spiral

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/13/2143200

Scientists Turn Stem Cells into Functioning Intestinal Tissue

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/scientists-turn-stem-cells-into-functioning-intestinal-tissue/81244376/

In the heavens, science. But on earth...

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/12/up_in_space_science_down_here.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

Controversial plant biotech patents overturned

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/12/controversial_plant_biotech_pa.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

NASA quietly cancels controversial primate research

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/12/nasa_quietly_cancels_controver_1.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

Evolution of potato blight pathogen traced Lethal genes behind the nineteenth-century Irish famine pinned down. Natasha Gilbert

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101209/full/news.2010.664.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

No evidence of time before Big Bang Latest research deflates the idea that the Universe cycles for eternity. Edwin Cartlidge

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101210/full/news.2010.665.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

Lack of support keeps African discoveries languishing in labs Institutional frameworks must be improved to save stagnant technologies Linda Nordling

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101212/full/news.2010.666.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20101214

Monday, December 13, 2010

Israeli Invention Helps Limit iPhone Radiation by 98 Percent

http://www.isrealli.org/israeli-invention-helps-limit-iphone-radiation-by-98-percent/

Judge dismisses Paul Allen firm's patent lawsuit

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BC0NZ20101213

FDA to reexamine use of mercury in dental fillings Prodded by activists, the agency is reviewing the evidence used to declare that the amount of mercury in dental amalgam is 'not high enough to cause harm' to patients. By Andrew Zajac

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-fda-mercury-fillings-20101211,0,1380922.story

Microsoft Seeks 1-Click(er) Patent

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/12/1327248

Microbatteries With Nanowire Hearts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209113552.htm

New Mechanism Links Cellular Stress and Brain Damage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125620.htm

Type 1 Diabetes: Grow Your Own Transplant? Human Testes Cells Turned Into Insulin-Producing Islet Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101212121739.htm

Shoo, Fly! Catnip Oil Repels Bloodsucking Flies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125811.htm

How Natural Drug, Abscisic Acid, Fights Inflammation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209152748.htm

Blue Whale-Sized Mouthfuls Make Foraging Super Efficient

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209074356.htm

Practical, Tunable, 3-D Microdroplet Laser Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208161313.htm

New Characteristics of Premature Aging Protein Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101116103628.htm

A Swarm of Ancient Stars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208083045.htm

Drug-Resistant HIV Genes Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210154517.htm

Lowering the Drinking Age Is Unlikely to Curb College Binge Drinking, New Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210075516.htm

Tiny Protozoa May Hold Key to World Water Safety

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210102914.htm

Synchrotron Study Shows How Nitric Oxide Kills

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130205.htm

Study on Skin Formation Suggests Strategies to Fight Skin Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206135724.htm

'White-Noise' Therapy Alone Not Enough to Curb Tinnitus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210095530.htm

'Green' Water Treatments May Not Kill Bacteria in Large Building Cooling Systems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210154530.htm

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Curiosity's Evil Twin Can Drive You Insane By Stephanie Pappas

http://www.source.ly/10B3c

Wind and Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli Impact Basin on Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210075930.htm

Thought for Food: Imagining Food Consumption Reduces Actual Consumption

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141134.htm

Neutron Stars and String Theory in a Lab: Chilled Atoms Give Clues to Deep Space and Particle Physics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209152755.htm

Physicists Slow Speed of Light By William J. Cromie

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html

Sex prof: Child porn can do some good! You won't believe reason behind college educator's stunning claim

http://www.rense.com/Sex%20prof-%20Child%20porn%20can%20do%20some%20good.pdf

Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/11/1712239

All-Analog DIY Segway Project

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/11/2316201

Small Fujitsu Device Harvests Both Solar and Thermal Energy

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/11/2019259

Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/11/046205

Researchers Develop Genuine 3D Camera

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/11/0042213

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Salvia, a Mexican Hallucinogen Piques Scientists' and Regulators' Interest By Meredith Melnick

http://www.source.ly/10B1s

Ice-Age Reptile Extinctions Provide a Glimpse of Likely Responses to Human-Caused Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141243.htm

World's Smallest Battery: Real-Time Observation of Nanowire Anode to Help Improve Lithium Batteries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209152751.htm

Bizarre Reptile Challenges Notion of Crocodiles as 'Living Fossils'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210094416.htm

Doctors Don't Need to Fear Red Heads

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209201944.htm

35,000 New Species ‘sitting in Cupboards’

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210111714.htm

Cycling just five hours a week 'could damage a man's fertility'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1337520/Cycling-just-hours-week-damage-mans-fertility.html

Japan team say stem cells helped monkey jump again

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6udzhonWNxb7k0JA5m3zUajYjqA?docId=CNG.b8e9e74ca1623255c8dd0b5233b5ac93.121

Friday, December 10, 2010

Astronomers claim dwarf sun lies beyond Pluto

http://www.helium.com/items/2036217-astronomers-claim-brown-dwarf-sun-lies-beyond-pluto

Hottest Chili Created

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/hottest-chili-created.html

Beating Censorship By Routing Around DNS

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/09/1840246

X Particle Might Explain Dark Matter & Antimatter

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/09/000244

Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/08/2326235

Geothermal plant likely cause of earthquakes

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101208-31671.html

MRI scans live birth

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101207-31649.html

Advances in How to Think About and Treat Depression - Marina Picciotto

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marina-picciotto/depression-treatment-new-advances_b_793454.html

Even one puff of tobacco harmful, reports surgeon general By Rob Stein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120905910.html

Perfectly Needled Nonwoven

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101108140640.htm

Cloud 'Feedback' Affects Global Climate and Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141231.htm

Greenland Ice Sheet Flow Driven by Short-Term Weather Extremes, Not Gradual Warming, Research Reveals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208172318.htm

Genome of Barley Disease Reveals Surprises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141128.htm

New Insights Into Formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm

Astronomers Discover, Image New Planet in Planetary System Very Similar to Our Own

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208172320.htm

Redrawing the Map of Great Britain Based on Human Interaction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208172316.htm

Fewer Synapses, More Efficient Learning: Molecular Glue Wires the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125622.htm

Mastermind Steroid Found in Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115122631.htm

Influenza Virus Strains Show Increasing Drug Resistance and Ability to Spread

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207091809.htm

Seeing the Invisible: New 'CSI Tool' Visualizes Bloodstains and Other Substances

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110123943.htm

Our Brains Are Wired So We Can Better Hear Ourselves Speak

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209101515.htm

Stricter Testing for Federal Ground Beef Program May Not Lead to Safer Meat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209121423.htm

Stem Cells: A 'Stitch in Time' Could Help Damaged Hearts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209113546.htm

Impaired Clearance, Not Overproduction of Toxic Proteins, May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141144.htm

Estrogen Alone Is Effective for Reducing Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209081842.htm

Elusive Spintronics Success Could Lead to Single Chip for Processing and Memory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130052.htm

Physicists Discover Ultrasensitive Microwave Detector

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130201.htm

Politics and Eye Movement: Liberals Focus Their Attention on 'Gaze Cues' Much Differently Than Conservatives Do

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209074403.htm

Study Assesses Nuclear Power Assumptions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130100405.htm

Same poop, different gut For physicians and researchers alike, fecal transplants present an opportunity to gain insight into disease

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/57795/

A skyscraper like no other: Taiwan to build 390-meter tower with floating observatory blimps

http://www.gizmag.com/taiwan-tower-dorin-stefan-floating-observatory-blimps-taechung/17092/

Thursday, December 9, 2010

New Aspirin Mechanism

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/079937-2010-12-09-new-aspirin-mechanism.htm

Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/079925-2010-12-09-air-force-unveils-fastest-defense-supercomputer-made-of-1-760.htm

New Meningitis Vaccine: A Model for the Developing World By Alex Perry / Juba, South Sudan

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2034886,00.html

How Do DNA Components Resist Damaging UV Exposure?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130103829.htm

How Do Neural Stem Cells Decide What to Be -- And When?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115122635.htm

A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/08/0227236

Tiny Laser Light Show Illuminates Quantum Computing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207091832.htm

Theoretical Breakthrough: Generating Matter and Antimatter from Nothing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130038.htm

So You Think You Can Solve a Cosmology Puzzle? Scientists Challenge Other Scientists With a Series of Galaxy Puzzles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207210859.htm

Astronomers Open New Window Into Early Universe: Epoch of Reionization

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208132210.htm

Extending the Life of Oil Reserves: Greener, Cheaper More Efficient Oil Extraction Made Possible

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101123101744.htm

Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208151609.htm

Feeling Chills in Response to Music

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207191525.htm

Providing Incentives to Cooperate Can Turn Swords Into Ploughshares

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207205233.htm

Chemical Coarsening: How the Big Get Bigger

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101104154332.htm

Good Grades in High School Lead to Better Health, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112448.htm

Duelling Dipoles: In Search of a New Theory of Photosynthetic Energy Transfer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207092345.htm

Soaring Is Better Than Flapping for Birds Big and Small

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130046.htm

Pain: What Zen Meditators Don't Think About Won't Hurt Them

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208130054.htm

How Flowering Time of Plants Can Be Controlled

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207092352.htm

Clone food wins final go-ahead from Food Standards Agency

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336678/Food-Standards-Agency-gives-clone-food-final-ahead.html

Cranberry Juice Not Effective Against Urinary Tract Infections, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208172324.htm

Extending the Life of Oil Reserves: Greener, Cheaper More Efficient Oil Extraction Made Possible

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101123101744.htm

Sex, Race, Place of Residence Influence High Blood Pressure Incidence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206161726.htm

Vitamin Supplements Reduce Deaths Caused by Measles and Diarrhea, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207191447.htm

'Logic Gates' Made to Program Bacteria as Computers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208142301.htm

Black Holes and Warped Space Revealed by Powerful New Array of Radio Telescopes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208202154.htm

Autism Treatment: Researchers Identify Possible Treatment for Impaired Sociability

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208151619.htm

Remember to eat your purples: Fruit can 'ward off Alzheimer's, heart problems and cancer' By FIONA MACRAE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1336627/Eating-purple-fruit-ward-Alzheimers-heart-problems-cancer.html

NASA's 'Arsenic Microbe' Science Under Fire

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/08/1218244

Samsung '3D' Memory Coming, 50% Denser

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/12/08/0222244

Reproductive scientists create mice from 2 fathers

http://scienceblog.com/40925/reproductive-scientists-create-mice-from-2-fathers/

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Rare Earth Recovery Enthusiasm

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/rare-earth-recovery-enthusiasm.html

Self Assembly of 3D Nano Structures

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/self-assembly-of-3d-nano-structures.html

Private capsule launched into orbit Private company sends a spacecraft into orbit in a move that could pave the way for the first commercial space station

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/12/201012816229990487.html

First carbon-rich exoplanet discovered

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-carbon-rich-exoplanet.html

Desensitization Approaches Effective Against Hayfever-Like Allergies, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207191445.htm

Drugs Can Pass Through Human Body Almost Intact: New Concerns for Antibiotic Resistance, Pollution Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112402.htm

Creating 'Living' Buildings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101105085428.htm

Sleep Deprivation Eliminates Fear Generalization: New Way to Treat PTSD?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112446.htm

Melanopsin Looks on the Bright Side of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207191441.htm

Doctor Who's Trusty Invention Is Anything but Sci-Fi: Sonic Screwdriver to Solve Future DIY Woes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112319.htm

Life Found Thriving in Porous Rock Deep Beneath the Seafloor

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207131735.htm

Using Chaos to Model Geophysical Phenomena

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207091811.htm

Ultraviolet Light Helps Skin Cancer Cells Thrive, Researchers Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112321.htm

Flu Vaccine Grown in Bacteria Works Like Vaccine Grown in Chicken Eggs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206142654.htm

Exposure to Mobile Phones Before and After Birth Linked to Kids' Behavioral Problems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206201242.htm

Why Married Men Tend to Behave Better

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206201433.htm

Ginseng Just Got Better -- Not as Bitter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206161836.htm

Social Relationships in Animals Have a Genetic Basis, New Research Reveals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207102519.htm

Warring Greeks Found Peace in Ancient Egypt: Researcher Uncovers Origins of Greek Trade City in Egypt's Nile Delta Region

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206101252.htm

Under a septillion suns: The universe holds THREE times more stars than was previously thought By FIONA MACRAE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334714/Alien-hunt-boosted-scientists-discover-universe-holds-3-times-stars.html

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Qatar vows to deploy climate control technology for 2022 soccer world cup

http://www.spotlightofpeace.com/featured-posts/qatar-vows-to-deploy-climate-control-technology-for-2022-soccer-world-cup/

Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving By BENEDICT CAREY

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/science/07brain.html

Daily Aspirin Linked to Steep Drop in Cancer Risk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/dailyaspirinlinkedtosteepdropincancerrisk;_ylt=AnUgBqbF8bzWXcCsrSTVCatzfNdF

Incredible salamander enzyme that could one day let humans regrow organs and limbs By ALLAN HALL

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1336144/Salamander-enzyme-day-let-humans-regrow-organs-limbs.html#ixzz17SToCw5a

People are nicer to you 'if they think you are jealous of them'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1336061/Why-people-nicer-think-jealous-them.html#ixzz17ST9Cntj

Boeing Mass Producing 40% Efficient Solar Cells

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/boeing-mass-producing-40-efficient.html

LouseBuster: Head Lice Shrivel With Chemical-Free Warm-Air Device

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206093711.htm

Spontaneous Mutations Important Cause of Mental Retardation, Research Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115074033.htm

Nanosatellite Successfully Ejected from Free-Flying Microsatellite in Space

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206203246.htm

K-12 Computer Science Education Declining

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206111536.htm

First Horned Dinosaur from South Korea Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206142652.htm

Life-Saving in the Bacterial World: How Campylobacter Rely on Pseudomonas to Infect Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101007093617.htm

Racing Against Age: Health Impairment Primarily Due to Bad Lifestye Habits -- Not Aging, Researchers Argue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202124201.htm

Medieval England Twice as Well Off as Today’s Poorest Nations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205234308.htm

Stripes Are Back in Season on Jupiter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128215754.htm

Over-Reactive Immune System Kills Young Adults During Pandemic Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205202526.htm

Brain's Architecture Makes Our View of the World Unique

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205202512.htm

Energy Use in the Media Cloud: 1,175 Gigawatts by 2030, Experts Predict

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202195325.htm

Overactive FTO Gene Does Cause Overeating and Obesity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101116220332.htm

Mystery of Repetitive DNA Segments Unraveled

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206161852.htm

Season of Birth May Have Long-Term Effects on Personality, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205202510.htm

A Team With a Shared Lousy Temper Is Better at Mental Tasks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115161722.htm

Using Earthworms to Process Hazardous Materials Containing Heavy Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206101241.htm

Season, Time of Day Appear to Predict Higher UV Levels, Need for Sun Safety Measures Among Skiers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115174013.htm

Faster-Growing E. Coli Strain Suitable for Gene Therapy or Vaccine Use

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101111160547.htm

Killing Salmonella and E. Coli on Fresh Produce With Half the Normal Food-Irradiation Levels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206111534.htm

Chemists Design Molecule That Responds to Stimuli

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101123151732.htm

Imitating Someone's Accent Makes It Easier to Understand Them

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101206161826.htm

Secondhand Smoke Exposure Increases Risk of Hearing Loss

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115210941.htm

For Elderly, Even Short Falls Can Be Deadly; Adults 70-Plus Three Times as Likely to Die Following Low-Level Falls

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101101130135.htm

Plants Engineered to Produce New Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103141533.htm

Stem cells: The impatient advocate Bob Klein founded the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest state-run research project in US history. What legacy will he leave behind? - Elie Dolgin

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101201/full/468620a.html

Mercury serves up a nuclear surprise The discovery of a new type of fission turns a tenet of nuclear theory on its head.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101201/full/news.2010.642.html

Basel Declaration defends animal research Dialogue with public is key to reducing opposition over the use of lab animals.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101206/full/468742a.html

Scientists find key to repairing MS damage

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/079787-2010-12-06-scientists-find-key-to-repairing-ms-damage.htm

500th Alien Planet Discovered, With Hundreds More to Come

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/079776-2010-12-06-500th-alien-planet-discovered-with-hundreds-more-to-come.htm

Study Finds Popular Sites Guilty of Hi-Jacking History by Brian Donohue

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/study-finds-popular-sites-guilty-hi-jacking-history-120610

Leaked Cable Reveals Obama Sent To “2012 ALICE Bunker” Due To Norway “Spiral”

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/12/07/leaked-cable-reveals-obama-sent-to-2012-alice-bunker-due-to-norway-spiral/

Monday, December 6, 2010

Computer Geeks: Compete to Help NASA Explain Dark Energy By Lisa Grossman

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/great-dark-energy-competition/

Gene Duplication and Depression

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/12/gene-duplication-and-depression.html

Doctors testing warm, beating hearts in transplant

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/6/doctors-testing-warm-beating-hearts-in-transplant/

Age-Related Hearing Loss and Folate in the Elderly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201095544.htm

Pheromones do not exist: Scientist's claim that 'attraction chemicals' are all in the mind By NIALL FIRTH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1335462/Pheromones-exist-Scientists-claim-attraction-chemicals-mind.html

People With a University Degree Fear Death Less Than Those at a Lower Literacy Level, Spanish Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202124209.htm

'Brain Maps' Created for How Humans Reach

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203091459.htm

Biologist Tracks Spiders' Eyes to Learn How Tiny Brains Process Information

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202194327.htm

Sows Ears and Silk Purses: Packing More Flavor Into Modern Pork

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202124319.htm

Heat Helped Hasten Life's Beginnings on Earth, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202124321.htm

Earliest Brain Changes Linked to Alzheimer's Genetic Risk Point to Possible Prevention Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130131219.htm

Fitting a Biological Nanopore Into an Artificial One, New Ways to Analyze DNA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101129111826.htm

Information Technology Could Improve Prevention, Treatment of Depression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203091457.htm

'Clueless' Housekeeping Genes Are Activated Randomly, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205202508.htm

Electronic Cigarettes Are Unsafe and Pose Health Risks, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203141932.htm

Tanned women live longer (as long as you sunbathe sensibly), say scientists By SOPHIE BORLAND

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1335364/Tanned-women-live-longer-say-scientists-Lund-University-Sweden.html

Eating five fruit and veg a day ‘won’t help you to beat cancer’ By FIONA MACRAE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1334538/Eating-fruit-veg-day-wont-help-beat-cancer.html#

Why Earth may be entering a new Ice Age

http://www.helium.com/items/1837151-why-earth-may-be-entering-a-new-ice-age

Invisible Planetoids: The Search for Spock Astronomers are ramping up their 400-year search for "vulcanoids"—planets, asteroids, or even rubble—in the solar system’s last remaining swath of empty real estate. by Phil Plait

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/25-invisible-planetoids-the-search-spock/

Universe bigger than original estimates; 'trillions of earths'

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301114

Sunday, December 5, 2010

How to become immortal: Upload your mind - Terrence Aym

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/079672-2010-12-03-how-to-become-immortal-upload-your-mind.htm

Vitamins Identified as Key Nutrient Which May Promote Harmful Algal Blooms in Coastal Waters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203165534.htm

Tooth Decay to Be a Thing of the Past? Enzyme Responsible for Dental Plaque Sticking to Teeth Deciphered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203101341.htm

On Arsenic-loving Bacteria & Roger Penrose`s New Book ``Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe``

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=625417

Global Sea-Level Rise at the End of the Last Ice Age Interrupted by Rapid 'Jumps'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201120605.htm

Electrocution of Birds and Collision With Power Lines: Solutions to a Global Problem

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203081805.htm

New Prion Discovery Reveals Drug Target for Mad Cow Disease and Related Illnesses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201102601.htm

Interspecies Electron Transfer: Anaerobic Bacteria Found to Cooperate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202141914.htm

Molecular Mechanism That Causes Teens to Be Less Sensitive to Alcohol Than Adults Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203165821.htm

Molecular 'Switch' Contributes to Cellular Aging Process: Discovery Suggests New Treatments for Metabolic Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130172045.htm

Color-Changing 'Blast Badge' Detects Exposure to Explosive Shock Waves

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101129121121.htm

Blame the Environment: Why Vaccines May Be Ineffective for Some People

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201102559.htm

A Molecular Switch for Memory and Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101129111832.htm

Ozone Hole Affects Upper-Atmosphere Temperature and Circulation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203141937.htm

US military developing flying car US military commanders are considering procuring flying cars to transport troops around the battlefield.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8174416/US-military-developing-flying-car.html

The apple that never goes brown: Biotech firm in bid to sell genetically modified fruit for lunchboxes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334996/Biotech-firm-bid-sell-genetically-modified-fruit-lunchboxes.html

Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

http://www.anh-usa.org/institute-of-medicine-report-on-vitamin-d-is-wrong-wrong-wrong/

Hot new discovery: Rare metal that stores heat from sun makes the 'rechargeable solar battery' possible

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334369/The-liquid-metal-make-rechargeable-solar-battery-store-heat-sun.html