Your Next Leather Wallet Could Be Grown In A Petri Dish
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleIn vitro leather production would be less controversial than growing hamburgers in the lab, Modern Meadow CEO Andras Forgacs says.
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Internal Baking Soda Therapy into Clinical Trials
• arcleinit is also a powerful buffer against radiation exposure, so everyone should be up to speed on its use. Everybody’s physiology is under heavy nuclear attack from strong radioactive winds that are circling the northern hemisphere. Actually it is no
Roundup Implicated in Long Term Rat Study
• arclein"Monsanto Roundup weedkiller and GM maize implicated in 'shocking' new cancer study" wrote The Grocery, a popular UK publication. (http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-and-supply-chain/monsant...)
Stairway to Heaven: Stars and Planets Align in Night Sky Photo
• http://www.space.com, by Nina SenBright stars and planets in the night sky appeared to line up in the early morning for this skywatching image.
Hope for Back Pain
• arclein"Conventional hydrogels are very weak and brittle—imagine a spoon breaking through jelly," explains lead author Jeong-Yun Sun, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). "But because they are water-base
Brain's working Memory Tapped
• arcleinhow they used a piece of mouse brain tissue to form the necessary circuits to record a short-term declarative memory. This type of memory can be something like names, places and events.
A Village of Scientists?
• http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff ReportThis mania for bigness extends throughout society at this point. In the US, for instance, healthcare has turned into Obamacare. Sports are defined by mega events such as the Olympics. Even politics is pursued on the gigantic stage of the United Natio
Private Manned Mars Mission Gets First Sponsors
• http://www.space.com, StaffA Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week.
Private Capsule Set to Launch Space Station Cargo Next Month
• http://www.space.com, by Mike WallA glitch with a Russian spacecraft has helped clear the way for a private capsule's first contracted cargo flight to the International Space Station early next month, NASA officials say.
...Radiation Such As Wi-Fi, Smart Meters And Cell Phones Cause The Blood Brain Barrier To Leak
• http://www.dailypaul.com, by Bob-45Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford has conducted many studies on radio frequency radiation and its effects on the brain.
UC Professor Eyes Permanent Sterilant To Cull US Population
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Jurriaan MaessenDuring a speech earlier this year given by University of California-Riverside professor Richard Cardullo, the cottonseed derivative Gossypol is being proposed as an adequate sterilant to bring down the birthrate in the United States.
...Underfunded Team Of Spanish Astronomers Could Help Solve The Mystery Of Dark Energy
• http://www.popsci.com, By Brendan BorrellFor less than $10 million, the team is trying to figure out one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy
LED Lighting Revolution For Developing World
• arcleinThe economic case for solar lighting is even clearer: buying a lamp that charges in the sun during the day, and then produces light at night, can eliminate spending on the kerosene that fuels conventional lamps. Of the 1.4 billion people without acce
3D Printed Ceramics
• arcleinpplication glazing', similar to modern glazing methods; 'efflorescent glazing' which uses water-soluble salts; and 'cementation glazing', a technique where the object is buried in a glazing powder in a protective casing, then fired. These techni
New Titanium Fabrication Protocol
• arcleinThe basic method involves feeding wire-shaped pieces of titanium into a machine for smelting. But first specifications are entered into a computer program in the machine which determines the resulting shape of the components. The process produces com
Russian asteroid crater revealed to be filled with over $1 quadrillion of diamonds
• Yahoo! News blogCall it the Soviet Union's most valuable cold war secret. Russia declassified the richest diamond field in existence, located in the depths of a 62-mile diameter asteroid crater known as Popigai Astroblem in Siberia.
How Russian Trove of Asteroid Diamonds Was Created
• http://www.space.com, by Eli MacKinnonA flashy claim from Russian scientists, that a Siberian meteorite crater holds "trillions of carats" of diamonds, may be far-fetched but it's not outside the realm of scientific possibility.
6 Reasons Why Evolution Isn't A Sure Thing
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorFormer children's television host and scientist Bill Nye recently captured national media attention when he blasted Americans who believe in creationism and reject Darwin's theory of evolution.
This Tiny Chip Restores Partial Sight To The Blind
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorBefore 2005, it was impossible to bring vision back to about 1.5 million people worldwide who suffer from an inherited form of blindness known as retinitis pigmentosa.
The Test Tube Hamburger Is Closer Than You Think (And More Delicious)
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam RoDutch scientist Mark Post is cooking up something extraordinary in his lab: A hamburger
Siberian DNA discovery boosts Mammoth cloning projects
• Terrence AymThe quest to resurrect extinct animals, specifically the woolly mammoth, received a huge boost with the recent discovery of pristine mammoth DNA deep in the desolate province of Yakutia located in northeastern Siberia. Scientists from Russia's North
EEStor Updated
•This layer with the CMBT had a permittivity of approximately 1000 and was tested at several voltages ranging from 1 volt to 1250 volts. There was no observed decline in permittivity throughout the test. Further, observed leakage throughout the test w
Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells
• http://www.ted.com, TEDGlobal 2012Calling them "our bodies' own repair kits," Susan Solomon advocates research using lab-grown stem cells.
Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
• http://www.ted.com, TEDxBoston 2012Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- but his team learned a hard lesson when it failed to go into production. A manifesto on the importance of designing for real-world use, rather than a
The Future Of Space: Hear From StarTalk Host Neil deGrasse Tyson At IGNITION
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Arden PennellEver wondered what it's like to die in a black hole?
Tissue Engineering the Brain, Eyes and Pituitary Glands
• arcleinHow do the proliferating stem cells of an embryo organize themselves seamlessly into the complex structures of the body and brain? And is tissue formation driven by a genetic program intrinsic to cells, or shaped by external cues from neighbouring t
Meg Whitman: We Are Going To Release A Smartphone At HP
• www.businessinsider.comWhitman says, "We ultimately have to offer a smartphone," because the future of computing is smartphones. In developing countries people aren't going to buy HP desktops or laptops. If HP doesn't want to be hosed, it has to deliver a smartphone.
Calorie Restriction Theory Fails
• arcleinThe results of this major, long-awaited study, which began in 1987, are finally in. But it did not bring the vindication calorie restriction enthusiasts had anticipated. It turns out the skinny monkeys did not live any longer than those kept at more
Fish Oil Surprise
• arcleinBased on a review and analysis of previous clinical trials including more than 68,000 participants, Greek researchers whose report appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association said the fatty acids have no impact on overall death rates,
Higgs Boson Discovery Has Been Confirmed
• http://www.forbes.com, Alex KnappLast July, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, announced that it had finally discovered the elusive Higgs boson – or at least, a particle that matches the predictions of what the Higgs boson should look like.
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