New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. Continued...
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What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
Posted by 12th_Man (#3) 25 days ago (http://www.theatlantic.com)
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. Continued...
Anthony Atala: Printing a Human Kidney
Posted by 4Christ (#24) 26 days ago (http://www.ted.com)Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that -- engineering over 30 tissues and whole organs.
Experimental drug saves Tenn. girl born without bones
Posted by 12th_Man (#3) 27 days ago (http://www.wbir.com)
Nurses didn't know a breakthrough drug was on the horizon when they dressed the tiny little girl in a pink outfit for a hospital photographer to take her picture.
It was a photograph for her parents - an image of solace so they could remember Janelly Martinez-Amador free of tubes. Doctors told them then there was nothing more they could do for a child without bones. Continued...
Antares Rocket Aces First Test Flight
Posted by jmac (#84) 28 days ago (http://news.discovery.com)
An Antares rocket, one of two launchers developed with NASA backing to fly cargo capsules to the International Space Station, blasted off on its debut mission on Sunday, successfully depositing a dummy spacecraft into orbit.
Launch from a new commercial spaceport on Wallops Islands, Virginia, had been delayed from last week by a technical problem and two days of bad weather.
Life before Earth – or with it
Posted by Temlakos (#7) 30 days ago (http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com)
Life before earth is the latest answer to how life became so complex today. The scientists behind it really make creation far more likely.
Hubble telescope takes stunning new nebula photo for 23rd birthday
Posted by psygremlin (#23) 30 days ago (http://www.cbsnews.com)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular new image of an iconic nebula to celebrate its 23 years of peering deep into the heavens.
The Hubble observatory, which launched on April 24, 1990, captured the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light, peering through obscuring veils of dust to reveal the object's hidden features.
"The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas -- very different to the nebula's appearance in visible light," mission officials wrote in an image description today (April 19). The new observations allowed astronomers to create a dazzling video of the Horsehead Nebula based on Hubble's photos.
The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion (The Hunter). The Horsehead is a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust, like other nebulae, and the light from a nearby star gives it a beautiful glow.
The object is a popular observing target, and Hubble has taken numerous Horsehead photos over the years -- including in 2001, to celebrate the telescope's 11-year anniversary.
The Horsehead's dramatic pillar is made of sterner stuff than the clouds surrouding the nebula, which have already dissipated. But the pillar will disintegrate as well in another 5 million years or so, astronomers say, and the Horsehead will go the way of the dodo.
360 day year: no coincidence
Posted by Temlakos (#7) 30 days ago (http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com)
The 360 day year was an ancient convention for thousands of years. Did the ancients merely round the year off? Or was that year real once?
Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown
Posted by 12th_Man (#3) 34 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
(Reuters) - Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. Continued...
Newly Created Rats Designed to Speed Alzheimer's Research
Posted by gbudavid (#4) 34 days ago (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
The genetically engineered rodents more closely mimic the disease found in humans, scientists say
Next generation Very Light Car revealed
Posted by 12th_Man (#3) 35 days ago (http://www.foxnews.com)
350 MPG Car Made in USA
GM, Ford team up for nine and 10-speed transmissions
Posted by 12th_Man (#3) 35 days ago (http://www.foxnews.com)
General Motors and Ford are putting aside their longstanding rivalry to work together to develop a new generation of fuel-efficient automatic transmissions. Continued...
WINNIPEG (CBS Cleveland) - A new study indicates that people who engage in text messaging tend to be more racist and shallow than their less technologically savvy counterparts. Continued...
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