Spinal Cord Injury Stem Cell Technology Gives Hope

A great new breakthrough may be able to heal spinal cord injuries, without murdering unborn children to get at the stem cells.  Many people who value human life have argued against stem cell technology...

Plastic-Devouring Bacteria Could Keep Soda Bottles Out of Landfills

Most bacteria are our friends and here is another example of it.  I can't remember the reference, but I remember reading about a student who worked on this problem as a science fair project.  His high...

Would you believe....Cannabis for WEIGHT LOSS ?

"The Endocannabinoid SystemCannabis preparations have been used medically for thousands of years for illnesses such as epilepsy, migraine headaches, childbirth, and menstrual symptoms. However, it is only relatively recently that the active components have been identified and...

Plants in Forest Emit Aspirin Chemical to Deal with Stress

In a new study released today, it has been found that plants respond by producing an amount of a chemical form of aspirin. The study was conducted by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research...

Four-Legged Duck-Billed Platypus Found in Montana...But Where is the Now Publ...

20-Foot long Leonardo, a four-legged duck-billed platypus was found in Montana in 2000, and a documetary about the Brachylophosaurus is to be shown on FOX on sunday.   In the meantime, the NOWPUBLIC...

BigBang Collision Live

"An Australian physicist says a science experiment which begins in Switzerland today is a major milestone in the history of scientific discovery. Scientists have built a 27-kilometre long underground circular tunnel that houses the Large Hadron Collider, which will allow...

'Missing Link' in Canadian hockey found

Can you imagine the absolute chaos of a hockey game with 40 or 50 people on each team?  This is quite a fascinating story about an 1839  reference to hockey, the second oldest ever found.  The...

How Should Journalists Cover Basic Medical Research?

A quick article from Wired about medical journalism, discussing how to report research advancements when readers' attention and time are limited, and the chances of the reported-upon drug's success are...

Urban Sprawl Grid Discovered In Xingu Amazonia :: Oblate Spheroid

" Newly discovered traces of ancient roads, bridges and plazas in Brazil's tropical forest may help dispel the once-popular impression of an 'untouched' Amazon before the Europeans' arrival. In southern Brazil,...

Lunar conspiracy theories debunked on Discovery Channel

Some say Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind in 1969 was an elaborate hoax. They point to details like non-parallel shadows on lunar photos (said to be impossible with a single light source), sketchy...

Captain James Cook Did Not Discover New Zealand First?

"Scientists discovered that the skull, found by a boy while walking his dog in 2004 on the banks of a river, turned out to belong to a European woman who passed away over 260 years ago. The discovery led to serious doubts regarding the historical fact that Captain James Cook...

Makemake: Dwarf Planet Bucks Naming Trends

Celestial bodies are most often named after Greek and Roman gods, but Mount Olympus only has so many residents. So what is an astronomer to do when he or she discovers something new out in the void of space? The answer lies not off the coast of the Aegean, but in the South...

The war criminal, his wife and the new girlfriend

Radovan Karadzic's secret life has revealed...he had a girlfriend, a  dark-haired middle aged woman that he introduced as Mila, whom he presented as an associate in his alternative medicine business. " The...

Brain region found to be linked to OCD-health

"LONDON: Scientists have located an area in the brain that fails to "kick-in" for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and those at risk of developing the condition. The discovery could allow experts to diagnose the disorder much earlier and better track how...

Unexpected New Striations in the Earth's Ocean Currents.

Just when we think things can't get any weirder (after hearing about Mysterious Electrified Rings of Stunted Tree Growth in Northern Ontario), it seems that scientists have stumbled upon a bizarre feature of sea...

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