The process that led up to the medical innovation dates back to 2003, when Professor Gudkov came up with the idea of using protein produced in bacteria found in the intestine to protect cells from radiation. via Cure for radiation sickness found? – Israel News, Ynetnews.

Rapamycin is a bacterial product found in soil samples on remote Easter Island in the South Pacific. Apparently it adds around 14% extra life to rats in labs..

“One of the many curious properties of Bose Einstein Condensates (BECs) is that the flow of sound through them is governed by the same equations that describe how light is bent by a gravitational field. Now, a group of Israeli physicists have exploited this idea to create an acoustic black hole in a BEC. The Read more about First Acoustic Black Hole Created[…]

It turns out that eating certain foods combined is much better than eating them seperately. * Tomatoes & Avocadoes * Oatmeal & Orange Juice * Broccoli & Tomatoes * Blueberries & Grapes * Apples & Chocolate * Lemon & Kale * Soy & Salmon * Peanuts & Whole Wheat * Red Meat & Rosemary * Read more about Healthy Food Combinations[…]

Basically by shooting atoms through a nanoscale pinhole on a mask at a substrate on the other side, researchers have found that they will create a smaller version of the reflected structure – a cheap and easy way to make a nanostructure. What’s more, it’s scaleable: they can make loads of pinholes and shoot atoms Read more about Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine[…]

Are Stem cells the new snake oil? The University of New South Wales in Sydney claims they have used contact lensens made from the stem cells of the working eye to cure corneal blindness in 3 people.

Chemists have found a way to convert things that grow (glucose and fructose) into HMF, which in turn can be easily turned into biofuels and plastics.

In the 10 days before the actual ovulation, women go nuts – because they need to offset the negative feelings and because they want to look at their best when they’re able to make babies. So, the week before they go – take away their credit cards!

Specifically, they improve contrast sensitivity. The effects last quite some time after having played the games.

It turns out that people who doodle – a light cognitive load – can recall information better than people who don’t. Presumably because they daydream, which is a heavy cognitive load.

Of course these guys, The Fertility Clinics, are under fire from all kinds of people who don’t think we aught mess with things we know not wot of, but in any case this is clever: Choose your babies gender, eye and hair colour, as well as checking for diseases, all through the wonders of modern Read more about Design your own baby![…]

By hooking up an MRI and looking at the visual cortex whilst the subject looks at an object creates a pattern. When the subject recalls that object in short term memory, you can recognise that pattern and tell what object the subject is thinking of. This has 2 implications: 1) We can read a specific Read more about Mind reading with MRI[…]

It’s been known for some time that eyewitnesses to an unpredictable and violent event have differing and even conflicting memories and testimonials of the event. Interestingly they also suffer from a deep need to conform: eyewitnesses put before a line-up will point out a person if they’ve been told that one of the line-up has Read more about Eyewitness identification severly unreliable[…]

Astrometry.net will give you back the celestial coordinates of an image of the sky you upload to them.

The procedure is still to dangerous to be used routinely – around 1/3rd of people die during the op, but this guy, who was transplanted with a mutated form of stem cells (with crippled CCR5 receptors, without which most forms of HIV can’t latch on to the cells, lending a natural immunity) made it and Read more about Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant[…]

Iran is now one of the few countries with a space programme, capable of launching satellites into space. Of course, the US is now worried that they have developed it specifically to rain down EMP weapons on them.

So I have this bee in my bonnet about wikipedia being used for anything at all. Why? Because it’s not peer reviewed: it’s user reviewed, with users with the most reviews having the most powers – even if they make nonsense edits on things they know nothing about. Then there’s the political infighting and the Read more about Encyclopedia[…]

This guy says he doesn’t believe in global warning and he should know his stuff. He was the boss of Hansen, the guy who crusades the man made global warming theory. Especially upsetting is that data sets were changed in a non-documented fashion, so we don’t know why or how the data was changed.

This is the first time they’ve managed to teleport qubits between ions. Slowly but surely, we’re getting there!

TNO is the Netherland’s premier research institution and these guys should know what they’re saying. They make the point that pirates turn out to be the biggest paying consumers too. It’s time for people to change their business model, instead of scapegoating their best customers!

Ah yes, invisible cloaks! I keep covering this, in the hope the technology will finally mature at some point. There’s loads of technologies to choose from Now, the metamaterias gang has produced a cloak measuring 10 x 50 cm It bends waveforms in a large range of frequencies and is very low loss. They’ve developed Read more about Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough[…]

Allergan has gone and invented a drug called Latisse that will make your eyelashes and more prominent.

So people who tend to exhibit risky behaviours do so to increase the rate of dopamine firing in their brain. It’s a pysiological thing, to enjoy bungee jumping, drugs, sex, motorbikes, etc.

Nanoparticles Make Surface Too Slippery For Bacteria To stick to

Even when submerged, the nanotech spikes balance water as balls on their tips, ensuring the material itself never gets wet.