British LulzSec hackers admit CIA cyber attacks
• The Raw Story.comTwo British members of the hacking group LulzSec admitted Monday carrying out cyber attacks against the CIA and Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group News International.
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Novel Power Plants Could Clean Up Coal
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comMajor engineering firms and power providers team up to demonstrate two new power generation technologies.
Doctors pioneer heart surgery breakthrough
• monash.eduThe first trial of a treatment allowing doctors to insert a fully repositionable replacement heart valve without the need for open-heart surgery has been successfully conducted at a Melbourne hospital.
Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew
• PopSci.comUsing new technology, scientists examined the water content in meteorites from the planet, and it points to a lot of it in the Martian mantle.
NC Man Saved from Deadly 'Delirium' Condition
• http://www.livescience.com, Jeanna BrynerAfter arresting a 30-year-old man who they said was violently assaulting several individuals, police brought him to the emergency room rather than to the station because of his behavior, including confusion, agitation and nonsensical speech.
Could Fertility Drugs Make Kids Shorter?
• By Barbara Bronson GrayFor those who need help getting pregnant, the thought of having a child who's a little shorter than other kids probably won't be much of a worry. But the question of whether infertility treatment causes unanticipated consequences remains fertile grou
Genome-wide analysis shows previously undetected abnormalities in parents of affected children
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Mary RiceThe use of genome-wide array analysis[1] in parents whose children are suspected of having a genetic disease shows that the parents frequently also have previously undetected genetic abnormalities...
Electronic Cigarettes Proven as One of the Most Effective Ways to Quit Smoking
• http://www.bio-medicine.org,Quitting smoking is well-known to be one of the most difficult endeavors a person can do. Throughout history, people have struggled to kick the habit, but finally in the 21st century, a new and extremely safe and effective method has been developed.
Plastics Chemical Linked to Obesity in Kids
• By Barbara Bronson GrayIt's hard to imagine a pacifier or a rubber ducky making your child fat.
1 in 10 fibromyalgia patients uses marijuana to ease pain
• http://medicalxpress.comAbout 10 percent of fibromyalgia patients use marijuana to relieve symptoms such as pain, fatigue and insomnia, a new study has found.
Significant sea-level rise in a 2-degree warming world
• by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchThe study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on scenarios for future greenhouse-gas emissions.
Learn that tune while fast asleep
• byNorthwestern UniversityWant to nail that tune that you've practiced and practiced? Maybe you should take a nap with the same melody playing during your sleep, new provocative Northwestern University research suggests.
Graphene? From Any Lab
• http://www.sciencedaily.comConsidered by many as the most promising material of the future, graphene still remains an expensive and hard-to-fabricate substance.
New Technique Allows Simulation of Noncrystalline Materials
• http://www.sciencedaily.comA multidisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and in Spain has found a new mathematical approach to simulating the electronic behavior of noncrystalline materials, which may eventually play an important part in new devices including solar cells, org
DEA’s Michele Leonhart: If Science Disagrees, We’ll Shut Down Research
• http://govtslaves.info, MAPSDespite plentiful scientific that marijuana has the potential to ease pain, reduce depression, and even reduce the likelihood of certain kinds of cancer, the DEA still clings to their dogma that marijuana has no medical uses.
Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew
• http://www.popsci.comResearchers have discovered evidence that there's a lot more water on Mars--at least on parts of Mars--than anyone previously thought. Using new technology, scientists examined the water content in meteorites from the planet, and it points to a lot o
Primitive Eye, Tiny Liver Grown in the Lab
• http://www.livescience.com, Natalie WolchoverJapanese scientists claim to have coaxed stem cells to develop into a rudimentary human liver, replete with working blood vessels and the ability to metabolize. At the same time, another group in Japan reports the growth from stem cells of a precurso
Mild thyroid dysfunction in early pregnancy linked to serious complications
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Aaron LohrEven moderate thyroid dysfunction during early pregnancy significantly increases the risk of serious complications, underscoring the need for universal screening in the first trimester, a new study finds.
Robot Touching Now Excellent
• arcleinWhile the machine is good at identifying which textures are similar to each other, Loeb and Fishel said it still can't tell what textures people will prefer. Instead, success in the realm of touch-sensitive robotics could pave the way for advancemen
New Sub Sea Design Concepts
• arcleinSuperhydrophobic surfaces are commonly constructed either by creating micro/nanostructures on hydrophobic substrates or by chemically modifying micro/nanostructured surfaces with materials of low surface free energy.
Neuroscience: The Mind Reader
• Nature.comA change in blood flow to certain parts of the man's injured brain convinced Owen that patient 23 was conscious and able to communicate. It was the first time that anyone had exchanged information with someone in a vegetative state.
US military surveillance future: Drones now come in swarms?
• http://www.rt.com,A small insect or a mosquito over your ear may now be much more than simply annoying. Those could easily be micro drones which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannOne of the biggest debuts in the science world could happen in a matter of weeks: The Higgs boson may finally, really have been discovered.
New Prenatal Blood Tests Can Identify Paternity of an Eight-Week Fetus
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowAn interesting story in the New York Times today explores the ease with which noninvasive prenatal diagnostics can now determine paternity, even when the pregnancy is only eight or nine weeks old.
Preserved frogs hold clues to deadly pathogen
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, David DeFuscoNew Haven, Conn.A Yale graduate student has developed a novel means for charting the history of a pathogen deadly to amphibians worldwide.
Researchers identify protein required to regrow injured nerves in limbs
• medicalxpress.com, byWashington University SchoolA protein required to regrow injured peripheral nerves has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Grid Tied Solar Vulnerabilities
• arcleinBecause of the very fact that these systems are tied into the power grid, however, they all have a safety feature that disconnects them from the grid when the grid goes down. In other words, if the power grid goes offline, your entire grid-tie solar
Out of the mouths of primates, facial mechanics of human speech may have evolved
• http://phys.org, by Princeton UniversityThe throat and facial movements that twist the air pushing through your vocal cords into words could be rooted in the well-meaning expressions primates exchange with each other, according to two recent studies based at Princeton University.
Fidelity Investments Funding ‘Synthetic Biology’ Takeover of Life
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Aaron DykesLab-created artificial species will outnumber natural life 50-to-1, financial firm claims
Chinese Construction Company to Build World's New Tallest Building In a Three-Month Timeframe
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comThe world’s tallest building took five years to reach its 828-meter height, but a Chinese company wants to leave it in the dust. Broad Sustainable Building, which already built a hotel in two weeks, aims to erect the Sky City within three months
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