>...Like Climategate, the public policy debate over hESCR (human embryonic stem cell research) has shown that scientists are not always disinterested parties..
Rather, scientists can be every bit as political and partisan as the politicians, selectively using scientific "evidence" to justify their ideological viewpoint.....>>
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/playing_politics_with_stem_cel.html
Scientists in Israel say they've identified a chemical in the human brain that helps brain cells store new memories and allows them to "stick."
The "rigour and honesty" of scientists embroiled in the climate change e-mail affair are "not in doubt" � according to an independent review of the matter released today.
Source:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100707/full/news.2010.335.html
EU-funded scientists have identified the symptoms behind late-onset hypogonadism or 'male menopause', a rare condition that affects 2% of men.
Nine symptoms were linked for the first time to low testosterone production, the key factor in male menopause.
Cosmic rays are made of protons, scientists found as they used a vast array of telescopes arranged across the Utah desert.
Each telescope in the 67-unit arrangement sees the sky with a multifaceted eye. Its no wonder they call it Flys Eye.
Decade after decade politicians and scientists have promised us that we will soon be breaking our dependence on foreign oil based fuels and energy.
Unfortunately, fossil fuels continue to dry up and the big switch to renewable energy stills feels quite a ways away.
Source:
http://www.chacha.com/topic/alternative-energy-technology-that-is-not-being-used
As social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and Twitter increasingly make it possible to access appropriate information within their networks, a whole host of new applications become possible.
For individuals, search engines could better differentiate 'friends' and suggest groups ...
You've heard about the Pacific garbage patch and the Atlantic garbage patch, each a sobering sign of how when we throw things away, they don't go "away" -- they often go into the sea, where they remain for a long, long time.
Much of the global ocean remains uncharted in terms of pollution, but unfortunately the more we look, the more we find....
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http://news.discovery.com/earth/scientists-find-hints-at-coming-antarctic-garbage-patch.html
Thousands of honey bees will be fitted with tiny electronic tags in a 2million project to monitor their behaviour
Scientists in the Netherlands unveiled the largest radiotelescope in the world on Saturday, saying it was capable of detecting faint signals from almost as far back as the Big Bang.
The LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) consists of 25,000 small antennas measuring between 50 centimetres and two metres across, instead of a traditional large dish...
Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.86c1ac9d54a51fd47b845663527a077d.1191
Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a prototype surveillance camera and computer system to analyze the camera images and deliver a text feed describing what the camera is seeing.
The new system aims to make searching vast amounts of video much more efficient.
If Bob Burns is correct, terrorists may betray themselves someday by jiggling on a Nintendo Wii balance board, blinking too fast, curling a lip like Elvis � or doing nothing at all.
Burns and his team of scientists are researching whether high-tech devices can be used to detect nonverbal cues from people who harbor "mal-intent," malicious intent.
Source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/28/nation/la-na-pre-terror-20100528
Scientists say an Aboriginal rock art depiction of an extinct giant bird could be Australia's oldest painting.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/31/2913350.htm?section=justin
When they get acupuncture, mice release a natural pain-relieving molecule that scientists have never linked with the treatment before.
Source:
http://news.discovery.com/human/acupuncture-pain.html
One more step in what scientists are increasingly referring to as the Sixth Great Extinction is announced today: the disappearance of yet another bird species.
Scientists have discovered capillaries have a unique method of expelling debris, such as blood clots, cholesterol or calcium plaque, that blocks the flow of essential nutrients to brain cells.
The capillaries spit out the blockage by growing a membrane that envelopes the obstruction and then shoves it out of the blood vessel.
Scientists have created the world's smallest electronic switch, measuring just seven atoms.
Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York Times reported late Saturday.
Scientists have aimed a high-energy X-ray beam at a fossil specimen of Archaeopteryx, the famed "flying dinosaur" and identified key chemicals in the 150-million-year-old bones, wings and soft tissue that settle definitively that the feather-like impressions in the rock that entombed Archaeopteryx were left by real feathers evolved for flight.
Source:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/11/BAKG1DCC9M.DTL&type=science
Scientists have discovered the molecule in the brain that leads to hangovers.
The neuropeptide, a brain-signalling molecule, is believed to cause the body to experience withdrawal symptoms as the brain tries to adapt to different intoxication levels.
