Combat pilots may get Viagra
They allready give them speed, but now Viagra? The active ingredient in the drugs was found to make climbers perform better in an environment with less oxygen, which causes fatigue and dizziness.
They allready give them speed, but now Viagra? The active ingredient in the drugs was found to make climbers perform better in an environment with less oxygen, which causes fatigue and dizziness.
These guys are a bit like train spotters. Except they spot satellites. And calculate their trajectory. And find out what they are. And there is no such thing as a spy train.
What a great idea! Anyway, it looks viable to me – so we’re going to have to mix our solar panels with these, as well as put them on the floors of our showers
Lectures and course materials from all over the world which have been put online are findeable through the World Lecture Hall.
The International Meteor Organization has a calendar with the meteor showers we can expect this year. It has pictures of where to look as well as data on how many to expect and on what they base these predictions.
Indian scientists have quite accidentally stumbled upon a way to store light for longer periods of time. So far this could only be done for a few nano-seconds. This potentially allows us to create light based switching systems.
And not only are humans evolving quickly, we’re also evolving differently on different continents.
This scanner takes a whole load of x-ray images of the whole body in a very small time using a rotating ring. This makes the images 3D so they can be rotated and viewed on computers. It can capture bone structures as well as organs.
Scientists have managed to create stem cells without extracting them from embryos using a simple lab technique.
Google has teamed up with the X-Prize foundation to offer incentives to get onto the moon: • GRAND PRIZE: A $20 million Grand Prize will be awarded to the team that can soft land a craft on the Moon that roams for at least 500 meters and transmits a Mooncast back to Earth. The Grand Read more about Google Lunar X-Prize[…]
This is basically Youtube for Science. All the content presented on here has to have been published in a mainstream publication. Because it’s new the publications are fairly limited, but this will grow with time.
Well, not entirely, but it certainly lowers the chances of women getting it drastically due to the increased melatonin production. Of course, it does raise the chances of skin cancer.
By using electrodes to provide electricity thereby boosting signals inside the thalamus, a patient who after a traumatic head injury could only move his eyes and a finger slightly can now communicate, move and eat independently. This could revolutionarise how (near) comatose patients are treated.
This three hour miniseries is available on Internet in seperate chapters from Nova. A lovely scientific series covering many elements of physics.
If you administer this drug whilst you’re visualising something, the drug removes first certain (possibly unconcious) associations with the memory and should after continued use, be able to remove the memory entirely.
This is being looked at quite seriously – Pennsylvania State University researchers have stated that there was definite something before the Big Bang, based on new knowledge of quantum physics. Due to cosmic forgetfulness we won’t know exactly what, but we can have a look what the universe looked like running up to the event. Read more about New theory: What was before the big bang[…]
DNA splicing has now come such a long way from 5 years ago, that the experts are starting to become optimistic of being able to reacreate whole DNA sequences and cloning them into living animals fairly soon in the future. These guys want woolly mammoths back. Give me a sabre tooth tiger!
Slashdot users have apparently been going to town on LiftPort’s ass. Enough that a fairly frank and complete rebuttal has been issued by the presidents of the space elevator company, showing how they think the company can work and how much work has allready been done.
Hitachi scientists have a machine that tracks the blood moving around in the brain using optical topography, and by thinking of calculations you can force blood to go through a specific area of the brain, allowing the machinery to perform an action. Currently it seems to be a binary system, but they’re hopeful that it Read more about Translating blood movements into physical actions[…]
This huge project is to attempt to put all biological information ever collected into one website for the useage of scientists but also the general public. Many major institutions are joining in, including the London Natural History Museum, the greatest repository of biological knowledge in the world. The problem for biology students currently is that Read more about Encyclopedia of life[…]
THC is the active ingredient in marjhuana and hashish, if you didn’t know. This stuff apparently cuts tumor growth in half and also inhibits the tumor’s ability to grow. Which is why all those hippies never get lung cancer – a strange statistic that has puzzled many 🙂
These guys seem to be oil professionals, and they’re definitely not pulling statistics out of their arse. They’re painting a serious doom scenario – Peak Oil is upon us NOW. Look at the charts, analysis and comments and decide for yourself (nb. there’s also a lot of sociological / economic comments in there as well, Read more about Statistical Analysis of Peak Oil[…]
Apparently patients in hospitals are given treatments that just don’t work. Not only this, but the practitioning doctors know this and would probably be surprised by the amount that do! Part of the problem is the huge body of research out there, which doesn’t filter down to the doctors, who don’t change their way of Read more about Hospital treatments often don’t work[…]
NYU School of Medicine researchers report in a new study that they have isolated a new version of a herpesvirus that kills cancer cells but spares normal tissue. … In animal studies, the new version dramatically reduced the size of human prostate cancer tumors grown in mice. Moreover, it completely eradicated the tumor mass in Read more about Cure for Cancer, Herpes[…]
The weather patterns on one pole of Saturn make a huge hexagon fitting four earth sized planets.