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It may sound far-fetched to consider the process of aging a “disease”, but that is exactly what many researchers are trying to accomplish. Bear with their explanation before you jump on me. The purpose of this new approach would turn the search for drugs to fight age-related diseases on its head, they say, and could [...]

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Sign us up, sir. We are interested in hearing your new information. An MIT-led team has designed a green airplane that is estimated to use 70 percent less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx). Not just because fuel is on sale either. The design was one of [...]

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Everyone knows that cats and mice don’t lplay well together. Well…cats don’t play well with mice, and mice run in fear. It’s not just because cats are a natural predator, and mice know that cats will tear them a part at any chance they get, but there are other reasons. Mice are naturally afraid of [...]

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Sitting here writing blog posts I got that familiar feeling that comes once ever 2-12 weeks. My toenails are too long and I need to cut them at this second before they drive me insane. You never notice them. They just all of a sudden became so insanely annoying that they MUST be cut right [...]

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The Tibetan Highlands are at an altitude that cause some humans to become deathly ill if they are exposed to such conditions for a period of time. High-altitude lung and brain complications threaten and even kill mountaineers who scale the world’s tallest peaks. Others who find themselves at elevations significantly higher than where they normally [...]

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Hair cells deep inside the ear that become damaged during hearing may have found a coaxing by stem cells to regrow. While only done so far in mice, Dr. Kazuo Oshima of Stanford University in California and colleagues, experiments with two types of stem cells, raises the possibility of treating many types of deafness and [...]

Filed under: Biology, Science, Stem Cells by JMH
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I’m sure you remember all the talk that stemmed from President Reagan’s administration about “Star Wars”. The name has changed, but space weapon research is still quite heavily funded. Space.com has a good article about some of the more recent weapon/vehicle testing that has been done in space here. Interestingly enough, I see this article [...]

Filed under: Environment, Science, Space, Space Tech by JMH
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