A Biologist Is Writing a Wikipedia Article About a Woman Scientist For Every Harassing Email She GetsYou probably won’t be shocked to read that she has written a whole bunch. Emily Temple-Wood is an undergrad at Loyola University who will be heading to medical school in the fall. Online harassment wasn’t her original impetus when she began ( Read more... )

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Europe is having a love affair with offshore wind-energy farms, and no wonder. The wind is stronger and steadier out at sea than it is on most land areas, and you can build turbines close to population centers without having to compete for real estate. Wind power is also one way to meet the world’s growing energy needs without fouling the ( Read more... )

Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.

The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where -- exceptionally in scientific publishing -- both ( Read more... )

New leukemia treatment exceeds 'wildest expectations'
Doctors have treated only three leukemia patients, but the sensational results from a single shot could be one of the most significant advances in cancer research in decades. And it almost never happened.

In the research published Wednesday, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say the ( Read more... )

Aussie student finds missing mass

SYDNEY: A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called "missing mass" of the universe during her summer break.Undergraduate student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough during a holiday internship with a team ( Read more... )

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We may know what kinds of things make us laugh -- slapstick, a clever pun, an inside joke with an old friend, an April Fools' gag -- but just what are those strange sounds we make when laughing?
Scientists are finding there is a long evolutionary trail to our odd noises of amusement, and the latest proof comes from ticklish rats.
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Hyperbaric chambers used to be best known because Michael Jackson was once photographed in one of them. In other words, they were seen as kooky, anti-aging, space-age, overpriced and over-hyped machinery.

However, the reality is that hyperbaric chambers can save lives. A brother and sister in Illinois are living proof.

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52-year-old Brenda Charett Jensen of Modesto, California, whose airways were blocked due to surgery complications, is the happy recipient of a pioneering larynx transplant which has successfully managed to restore her voice after 11 years of silence. “It is a miracle,” Jensen is quoted as saying. “I’m talking, talking, talking, which just ( Read more... )