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Renewable Energy Wrecks The Environment, Says Environmentalist
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Jesse Ausubel was one of the main organizers of the first UN World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979), which substantially elevated the global warming issue on scientific and political agendas. If he says biofuels are wrong, he is right.
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Pig to Human Transplantation Is Closer Than You Think
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Experiments using pigs genetically engineered for compatibility with the human immune system have raised hopes that cross-species transplantation could soon become an option for patients with diabetes and other currently incurable diseases.
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Submitted by Cash
55 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 16 hours agoTags: xenotransplantation, pigs, Humans, chimera, hybrid
The Mystery Of The Man With The Tiny Brain
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You don't need a big brain, or a high IQ, to have a comfortable life and a good family.
Witness the case of this French civil servant, written about by Dr. Lionel Fuillet in The Lancet. At age six months he was treated for hydrocephalus (water on the brain) with a shunt in his head to drain away the fluid. At age 14 he complained of unsteadiness and left leg weakness, which cleared up after the shunt was adjusted. Beyond that his neurological development and medical history were normal.
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Conductive plastics - from soybeans
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Polymer matrix composites with carbon black can modify electrical and mechanical properties - now they can be made from renewable soybean oil and then used in engineering and aeronautical applications.
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Submitted by Cash
57 months, 1 week, 6 days, 3 hours agoTags: soybeans, renewable, natural, eco-friendly, polymers
MIT researchers probe bones' ability to 'fail gracefully'
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MIT researchers have undertaken a first-of-its-kind analysis of bone's mechanical properties and discovered new things about how a bone absorbs energy. The insights gained from this work could lead to the creation of new, tougher materials.
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Clothes that monitor your health
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As the first of its kind, the BIOTEX project is developing optimal electric, electrochemical and optical sensors which will be embedded into a textile substrate to create 'sensing patches' able to monitor the biochemical parameters of a user.
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Evolution In The Lab
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Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Researchers are now trying to mimic the process of Darwinian evolution and have evolved several new proteins in a fraction of the 3 billion years it took nature.
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Who assassinated JFK? Modern forensics takes a shot at the answer
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Combining statistics and chemistry, researchers are challenging the evidence for the lone-gunman theory in the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.
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Submitted by Cash
57 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 19 hours agoTags: forensics, conspiracy, JFK, chemistry, statistics
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