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Jury Awards $21M After Mistaken Brain Surgery

Via: randy2 • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 10 years ago

81-year-old patient died after procedure she didn't need, says family lawyer (Newser) An 81-year-old Michigan woman went to the hospital for a relatively simple jaw procedure and ended...

DNA test reveals NJ twins have different fathers

Via: nona62 • Health, Science & Technology • 13 Comments • 10 years ago

DNA test reveals NJ twins have different fathers Research shows that the odds of a set of twins being conceived from two separate fathers is 1 in 13,000, and yet a paternity test has...

Astrophysicists Offer Proof that Famous Image Shows Forming Planets

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 10 years ago

This image sparked scientific debate when it was released last year, with researchers arguing over whether newly forming planets were responsible for gaps in the dust and gas swirling...

What Would It Be Like to Live on Alien Planet Kepler-186f?

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 11 Comments • 10 years ago

In recent years, NASA's Kepler space telescope and other observatories have discovered more than 1,800 extra-solar planets, with thousands of additional "candidate" planets awaiting...

Man sneezes out toy wedged in nose for 44 years

Via: nona62 • Health, Science & Technology • 24 Comments • 10 years ago

Man sneezes out toy wedged in nose for 44 years When Steve Easton was about seven years old, his parents noticed that the suction cup was missing from one of his toy darts, and they were...

The Mad Plan to Clean Up Space Junk With a Laser Cannon

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 17 Comments • 10 years ago

Click to Open Overlay Gallery The mother of all laser cannons, inStar Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Lucasfilm If a team of astronomers has itsway, the International Space Station will be...

Elderly cancer patient calls 911 because he’s hungry and doesn’t have any food

Via: nona62 • Health, Science & Technology • 30 Comments • 10 years ago

Elderly cancer patient calls 911 because hes hungry and doesnt have anyfood AYETTEVILLE, NC (May 13, 2015) An 81-year-old North Carolina man returned home Tuesday after spending months in the...

Fingerprints 'can reveal drug use'

Via: nona62 • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 10 years ago

Fingerprints 'can reveal drug use' Scientists say they can tell if someone has been taking drugs by analysing their fingerprint. The team at the University of Surrey showed that chemicals...

Pluto's five moons captured on camera for first time EVER by NASA's New Horizons probe

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 6 Comments • 10 years ago

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured these views of Pluto and its moons on April 25, 2015. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI View full size image NASA's New Horizons...

Awe-Inspiring NASA Photos of Space

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 19 Comments • 10 years ago

Few things instill a sense of wonder quite like the views from space do. Whether the cameras are turned toward the stars, or back at Earth, theres something about space photography that makes...

Generation Deaf: Doctors Warn of Dangers of Ear Buds

Via: ravenwing • Health, Science & Technology • 18 Comments • 10 years ago

Hearing loss began early for Josh Musto, triggered at first by a heavy metal concert and worsened by years of playing guitar in two bands. Listening to loud music constantly through ear buds may...

Washington D.C. Is The Nation's Fittest City

Via: ravenwing • Health, Science & Technology • 24 Comments • 10 years ago

A big network of walking and cycling paths, wide sidewalks and, most of all, plenty of parks make Washington D.C. the nation's fittest city, according to the American College of Sports Medicine....

Cloudy with A Chance of Spiders

Via: ravenwing • Health, Science & Technology • 48 Comments • 10 years ago

Its Raining Spiders in Australia... Millions of tiny spiders recently fell from the sky in Australia, alarming residents whose properties were suddenly covered with not only the creepy critters,...

Man credits Taylor Swift for massive weight loss

Via: nona62 • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 10 years ago

Man credits Taylor Swift for massive weight loss One man lost an amazing 425 pounds with lots of hard work, sweat, and Taylor Swift. Ronnie Brower says he has spent the last...

NASA Wants Your Help Figuring Out How to Build Space Habitats

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 10 years ago

If and when we send colonists to Mars and beyond, were going to need habitats unlike any weve built before. To encourage out-of-the box thinking, NASA and America Makes are kicking off a...

How we could colonize Mars if we wanted to

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

How we could colonize Mars if we wanted to The idea isnt as far-fetched as you think well, okay, just slightly less far-fetched By Trevor Melanson, Macleans Magazine, March 2, 2012...

Is organic food worth the higher price? Many experts say no

Via: xxjefferson51 • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

ristin DiMarco was heading into a Trader Joe's in West Los Angeles the other day and knew for sure what she wouldn't be buying: anything organic. "I just feel like I've already built up an...

25 Awe-Inspiring Images of the Milky Way Galaxy

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 6 Comments • 10 years ago

1. Nebulae Name Game Nebulae are large clouds of dust and gas that occupy the empty spaces between stars. The colors that you see in the photographs don't reflect how the nebulae would look...

NASA Spacecraft Finds the Brightest Galaxy in Known Universe

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 10 years ago

An artist's concept of the brightest galaxy in the known universe. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech A NASA spacecraft has just discovered the brightest galaxy in the known universe. NASA's WISE...

Ladybugs are actually highly promiscuous, STD-ridden, cannibals

Via: dowser • Health, Science & Technology • 31 Comments • 10 years ago

Those cute little ladybugs, the favorites of children everywhere, are really highly promiscuous, STD-ridden, cannibals. Surprised? For starters, many of the 5,000 species of ladybugs on the...

Just like riding a bicycle ?

Via: petey-coober • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 10 years ago

Here is an interesting video about the difference between knowledge and understanding . The world is not quite as simple as we like to make it out to be .

Every World in a Grain of Sand: John Nash’s astonishing Geometry

Via: robert-in-ohio • Health, Science & Technology • 19 Comments • 10 years ago

Surfaces like this are able to be described thanks to the work of Nash. Hevea Project , CC BY-SA As has been widely reported, John Forbes Nash Jr died tragically in a car accident on May...

CONJECTURE: My thoughts on global warming

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 29 Comments • 10 years ago

CONJECTURE: My thoughts on global warming This isnt a satire, or a parody, or even an attempt at humour. Its my opinion, my prediction, and Id be really happy if it were disproved. If it cant...

Has Anybody Here Driven This Car - Besides Me?

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 14 Comments • 10 years ago

Has Anybody Here Driven This Car - Besides Me? No, I'm not a chauffeur. But there is a story to this. Two very good folksinger friends of mlne were getting married and I...

Injured Sea Turtle Gets His Bite Back With 3-D Printed Jaw

Via: ravenwing • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 10 years ago

An injured loggerhead sea turtle has been equipped with a 3-D printed prosthetic jaw at a rehabilitation center in Turkey. Akut-3, named after the search and rescue team that found him,...

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