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Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD | Wired.com
Insanity must be ruling the day at the DEA and FDA. What’s next? Treating depression in high schoolers with ecstasy? Sheesh. — PID (WIRED.COM) — A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy — while they’re... »
DOJ gags scientists studying BP disaster
(THINK PROGRESS) — In an explosive first-hand account, ecosystem biologist Linda Hooper-Bui describes how Obama administration and BP lawyers are making independent scientific analysis of the Gulf region an impossibility. Hooper-Bui has found that only scientists who are part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) process to determine BP’s civil liability get full access... »
NASA could land probe on asteroid hurtling towards Earth
(TELEGRAPH) — Asteroid 1999 RQ36, which has a one-in-1,000 chance of hitting the Earth before the year 2200, would cause an explosion equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs detonating at once. An analysis of its orbit has predicted that it is most likely to hit us on September 24, 2182 but scientists want to collect... »
Hotter-burning sun warming the planet – Washington Times
(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The sun is burning hotter than usual, offering a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, Swiss and German scientists say. “The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting... »
Researchers Sequence Iceman’s Genome | Ancient Mummy | Search for Descendants | LiveScience
Hat tip to James Courtright, who posted this at Facebook! — PID (LIVESCIENCE) — Iceman, the Neolithic mummy found accidentally in the Eastern Alps by German hikers in 1991, has offered researchers all sorts of clues to life 5,200 years ago, from his goat-hide coat to the meat and unleavened bread in his stomach to... »
Researchers find schizophrenia linked to parasite carried by cats
BALTIMORE (BALTIMORE SUN) — Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats. The researchers say the microbes, called Toxoplasma gondii, invade the human brain and appear to upset its chemistry – creating, in some people, the psychotic behaviors... »
Hacker Tries to Read a Radio Identification Tag From 29 Floors Up
(VENTUREBEAT.COM) — Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are becoming pervasive as the barcodes of the 21st century. They are being used in everything from Wal-Mart merchandise to U.S. passport cards. But the problem, as demonstrated by hacker Chris Paget at the Defcon security conference today, is that they have no security and... »
Is Time Disappearing from the Universe?
(DAILYGALAXY.COM) — New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. Scientists previously have measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that these supernovae are spreading apart faster as the universe ages. Physicists... »
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
(PHYSORG.COM) — NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. “This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years,” says John Emmert of the... »
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday
(NEW YORK TIMES) — Some of Silicon Valley’s smartest and wealthiest people have embraced the Singularity. They believe that technology may be the only way to solve the world’s ills, while also allowing people to seize control of the evolutionary process. For those who haven’t noticed, the Valley’s most-celebrated company — Google — works... »
RFID chip implanted into man gets computer virus
(BBC NEWS) — Researchers have found that implanted identity chips can pick up computer viruses. Reading University's Mark Gasson conducted an experiment to show how radio frequency identity RFID chips could become electronically infected. via BBC News – RFID chip implanted into man gets computer virus. »
US team creates first ’synthetic life’
(RAW STORY) — US researchers have developed the first bacteria cell controlled by a synthetic genome, in a breakthrough which may pose philosophical and scientific questions about the bid to recreate life. The researchers synthesized the 1.08 million base pair genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides, created from four bottles of chemicals which make up... »
Printing New Skin: Saving Lives with Ink Jet Printers
(Armed With Science) – By modifying an ink jet printer and growing skin cells from a patient’s body, an Army research lab has developed an amazing treatment for severe burns: printing new skin. via Armed With Science »
‘Something may come through’ dimensional ‘doors’ at LHC
(THE REGISTER) — A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” – for instance “an extra dimension”. “Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it,” said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director... »
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Is This Book Coming True?
A plague has been unleashed....After her father dies suddenly, Dr. Maggie Taylor, a prominent and respected genetics researcher and professor, receives a mysterious package with a message of universal doom. H5N1 influenza is ravaging swine herds throughout the Midwest, when a deadly, new human version suddenly appears in New Mexico.
Derek and Sharon hope to see you in Canton, Ohio in October!
