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Every time I see stem cells in a headline you can expect to see me post about it. Why? Simply because the benefits of stem cell research are off the charts, and for some reason we have many people that don’t want us doing it for various reasons (mostly because they don’t understand it, combined [...]

Filed under: Biology, Science, Stem Cells by JMH
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A group of astronomers have discovered a possible force acting on dark matter that could change the way we think about and understand one of the most basic principles of our scientific understanding: Gravity. Dr Hongsheng Zhao of the SUPA Centre of Gravity, University of St. Andrews, suggests that an unknown force is acting on [...]

Filed under: Science, Space by JMH
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]

Filed under: Biology, Energy Tech, Environment, Health and Medicine, Science by JMH
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Here we go again. It seems to me that these sort of things would be rather straight forward. There was this much ice this many years ago, and now there is this much ice now. That ice has been depleting at X number of meters per year, and this is the rate. Apparently it isn’t [...]

Filed under: Environment by JMH
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When I first started reading this story, all I could think of was “Man, what a friggin’ waste of money this is.” After reading further, I still feel the same. At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Cabeus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where [...]

Filed under: Space, Space Tech by JMH
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While anything that effectively kills another species outright sounds awfully dangerous to me when considered as a form of treatment for a human, cancer is a pretty big ass kicker itself so I am interested in just about anything that may help fighting it. A powerful fish-killing toxin could have cancer-killing properties as well, according [...]

Filed under: Health and Medicine, Science by JMH
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