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...
created by panzerlawyer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 193 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Barbara McPherson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 491 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
"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...
created by mabone | 4 years ago 4192 views | 3 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1541 views | 31 recommendations | 39 comments
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...
"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...
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...
created by ppeggy | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 616 views | 3 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1121 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
" 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,...
created by Edmund Jenks | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 943 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2090 views | 17 recommendations | 26 comments
"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...
created by dimon | 4 years ago 507 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
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...
created by sweet east pearl | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 456 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
"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...
created by Mon-Mage | 4 years ago 310 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by mgmirkin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1095 views | 64 recommendations | 22 comments