The Stanford Medical Center is using stereophotography to document gorgeous Italian anatomical waxwork sculptures from the 18th and 19th centuries. Clement Susini (1757-1814) created more than 2,000 of the sculptures to educate medical students. A team from Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT) collaborated with colleagues from the University of Bologna and 3D [...]
Good news, America! Your faithful scientific elite have isolated a brain enzyme that, when blocked, decreases appetite, promotes weight loss and improves the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels. You’ll be fat and diabetic no longer!
There’ll be no need to exercise when you’ll have easy access to a drug that makes trans-fat-laden fast food [...]
A new study from NASA’s Ames Research Center has suggested that the collision of Earth and a Mars-sized object that created the Moon may also have resulted in the creation of tiny moonlets on Earth’s Lagrangian points.
From the Article: “Once captured, the Trojan satellites likely remained in their orbits for up to 100 million years, [...]
The Globe and Mail is reporting that scientists claim to have found a DNA link between the frozen remains of an aboriginal man and 17 living people.
From the Article: “While the work on the human DNA project has opened new doors and work will continue on establishing a fuller family tree, Long Ago Person Found’s [...]
The largest release of famed biologist Charles Darwin’s papers is coming online to darwin-online.org.uk, comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, according to the organizers from Cambridge University Library which holds all the Darwin papers. The collection includes thousands of notes and drafts of his scientific writings, notes from the voyage of the Beagle when [...]
Biochemists from McNeese State University have described how proteins in gator blood may provide a source of powerful new antibiotics to help fight infections associated with diabetic ulcers and severe burns. This new class of drug could also crack so-called “superbugs” that are resistant to conventional medication.
Previous studies have showed alligators have an unusually [...]
Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind — until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagues suggest that [...]
Low doses of hydrogen sulfide, the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs, can safely and reversibly depress both metabolism and aspects of cardiovascular function in mice, producing a suspended-animation-like state that does not depend on a reduction in body temperature and include a substantial decrease in heart rate without a drop [...]
Researchers applied for a patent on antibodies that bind to methamphetamine-like compounds such as Ecstasy to quickly remove the drug from a user’s bloodstream. Developed by University of Arkansas scientists, the antibodies could eventually be used to prevent some of the drugs’ side effects before they occur.
From New Scientist: “The team have not yet tested [...]
A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger tip. It grew back — “flesh, blood, vessels and nail” — in four weeks.
From CBS News: “That powder is [...]
Researchers at RPI are testing the effects of putting blue LEDs inside cars to keep drivers alert. People driving through the night are much more likely to cause accidents because our circadian rhythms just want to sleep — blue light at around 450nm wavelength can fool them into thinking its morning and keep us awake.
Controversial scientific research happens all the time, but a review conducted by scientists in Japan uncovered a list of ‘bizarre’ trials - including one program designed to crossbreed cows with whales.
Scientists have analyzed 43 research papers produced by Japan over 18 years, finding most were useless or esoteric. The scientific research included injecting minke whale [...]
Bloomberg reports about Japan Steel Works Ltd., a company that still makes samurai swords, and how it may control the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance.
From the Article: “There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor’s [...]
Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a new system to assist those with weak hearts. Current solutions use implanted devices that suck blood out of the heart and pump it into downstream vessels. While they do work, they require the patient to undergo life-long drug therapy to suppress the immune system and prevent [...]
Male starlings that eat polluted worms suffused with estrogen-mimicking toxic waste develop beautiful songs that turn them into super-studs, attracting more females than their non-toxic brethren.
The Bird-ladies Love A Toxic Dude: “Male starlings with the highest levels of endocrine disruptors in their bodies also possessed unusually developed high vocal centers, an area of the brain [...]
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