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Drug company founder indicted in US-wide opioid conspiracy

Via: pj • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

Drug company founder indicted in US-wide opioid conspiracy By ANITA SNOW and PAUL DAVENPORT Today PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. prosecutors brought a fraud and racketeering case Thursday against the...

Why Haven't We Found Aliens?

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 26 Comments • 8 years ago

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How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy | Brainwash Update

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 17 Comments • 8 years ago

11-year-old named top young scientist for developing device that detects lead levels in water

Via: larry-hampton • Health, Science & Technology • 12 Comments • 8 years ago

An 11-year-old from Colorado has been named the country’s top young scientist after developing a system that can quickly detect the presence of lead in drinking water. Gitanjali Rao , a...

10 disruptive Israeli companies that can wean the world off fossil fuels

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 8 years ago

Solar, water, geothermal and wind power, battery techs and electric-car components are areas where Israelis are leading the renewable revolution. One of Ormat Technologies’ geothermal...

It’s Official: The Left Has Abandoned Evolution

Via: vic-eldred • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

Its pursuit of “social justice” now trumps “science” every time. Of all the absurd and ill-informed clichés being parroted by today’s politicos, the notion of s cience as a saber wielded...

Scientists may have found a cause of dyslexia

Via: hal-a-lujah • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

Source A duo of French scientists said Wednesday they may have found a physiological, and seemingly treatable, cause for dyslexia hidden in tiny light-receptor cells in the human eye. In...

ISRAELI-DEVELOPED ALS TREATMENT REVERSING MOTOR DECLINE BREAKTHROUGH

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 8 Comments • 8 years ago

ISRAELI-DEVELOPED ALS TREATMENT REVERSING MOTOR DECLINE BREAKTHROUGH BY MAX SCHINDLER Jerusalem Post OCTOBER 17 2017 Israeli firm leads new way to fight ALS, doesn't slow down the...

A delimma for our future with Digital Data, and how turning to biology may solve it

Via: shepboy • Health, Science & Technology • 15 Comments • 8 years ago

I am in the process of writing a paper for my CIS 395 Cryptography class. We are allowed to pick any topic we wanted, so I researched this. This paper is actually formatted 2 column APA style,...

5 Scientifically Supported Benefits of Prayer

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 33 Comments • 8 years ago

According to a 2013 Pew Research Poll, over half of Americans pray every day. A 2012 poll found that over 75 percent of Americans believe that prayer is an important part of daily life. Other...

Anti-Vax Message Gets Meaner on Social Media

Via: eginnj • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

by Maggie Fox Oct 11 2017, 9:06 am ET It’s getting ugly out there on social media. Anti-vaccine activists are attacking pediatricians head-to-head on Twitter, Facebook and other...

SCIENCE Is a Bunch of Racist Misogyny, Claim Female Mad Scientists

Via: johnathon • Health, Science & Technology • 444 Comments • 8 years ago

First they came for basic biology, and I did not speak out… STAFF WRITER OCTOBER 8, 2017 Now, professors at Seattle Pacific University are calling for science–that singularly human...

Sorry, But Your Husband’s Most Disgusting Habit Is Helping You Live Longer

Via: hal-a-lujah • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

Source Just about everyone has heard by now that being married is good for your health and longevity, with hitched people having lower rates of high blood pressure risk...

Open-Ocean Wind Farms Could Meet Current Global Energy Demand

Via: larry-hampton • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

O cean-based wind farms in the North Atlantic could generate enough power in winter to meet all of humanity’s current energy needs, a study published Monday found. The research, which explains...

Is There Something Unique about the Transgender Brain?

Via: calbab • Health, Science & Technology • 42 Comments • 8 years ago

Imaging studies and other research suggest that there is a biological basis for transgender identity Some children insist, from the moment they can speak, that they are not the gender...

New Clues to How Neanderthal Genes Affect Your Health

Via: larry-hampton • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

If your arthritis is bad today or you’re slathering on aloe for an early autumn sunburn, Neanderthals may be partly to blame. Scientists announced today the second complete,...

Water Ice Mystery Found at Martian Equator

Via: matti-viikate • Health, Science & Technology • 17 Comments • 8 years ago

New research into old data suggests that ice may hide around Mars' equator. Here, the Red Planet is seen in a vivid Hubble view. Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado)/Jim Bell...

Sputnik's Beeping Legacy: Satellite's Simplicity Made It Iconic 60 Years Ago

Via: matti-viikate • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 8 years ago

A Soviet technician works on Sputnik 1 before its launch in 1957. Credit: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring...

The direct piezoelectric effect in the globular protein lysozyme

Via: matti-viikate • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 8 years ago

ABSTRACT Here, we present experimental evidence of the direct piezoelectric effect in the globular protein, lysozyme. Piezoelectric materials are employed in many actuating and sensing...

3 Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Detecting Gravitational Waves

Via: matti-viikate • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

A computer simulation showing gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. The discovery has major implications for science. Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib...