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Machinima Series Red vs. BlueEnds Tour of Duty
Red vs. Blue, the cult hit web-video series created from in-game Halofootage, concludes its genre-defining run as it airs its 100th and final episode Wednesday evening. The comedy series took the emerging machinima medium mainstream. Playstation as High-End CD Player
MSNBC's Gary Krakow claims the PS1 is high-end audio, so long as you "break it in" for 3 days. A sonic symphony or pseudoscience? In Gear Factor. Health Effects Of 'Functional Foods' Featured During Four-day Symposiu
Scientists worldwide are discovering new and unexpected health benefits -- such as protection against heart disease and cancer -- from so-called "functional foods,"defined as those foods which provide health benefits beyond their basic nutritional value. More than 50 research papers on this topic will be presented during a four-day symposium, Sept. 10-13, in San Francisco at the national meeting of the of the American Chemical Society. Island Universes With A Twist
If life is like a box of chocolates -- you never know what you will get -- the universe, with its immensely large variety of galaxies, must be a real candy store! The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has taken images of three different "island universes,"each amazing in their own way, whose curious shapes testify of a troubled past, and for one, of a foreseeable doomed future. Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke
The sci-fi author who penned 2001: A Space Odysseyturns 90 Sunday. To celebrate, we're running a poll: What's your favorite sci-fi novel? UCLA Discovery Will Aid In Treatment Of Patients With A Deadly Brain C
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer have identified key characteristics in certain deadly brain tumors that make them 51 times more likely to respond to a specific class of drugs than tumors in which the molecular signature is absent. Patient Choice And Treatment Alternatives For Arthritis
Two new studies examined patients'decisions regarding therapy for RA and glucosamine for OA and found that most RA patients are reluctant to change their treatment as long as their condition didn't worsen, and that there are discrepancies in clinical trial results for glucosamine. How Not to Grab the Blogosphere
This week I, and a dozen or so other science writers and bloggers, got spammed with a single email by a public relations company hoping to get us to write about the “next big thing” from their client. Nothing shocking there, we all get PR puff blown at us every day of the week. One [...] 21st Century Science Harnessed To Help Preserve Historic Buildings
Famous British landmarks such as St Paul's Cathedral stand to benefit from world-leading research aiming to aid the conservation of limestone buildings. A key element in the project is the development of highly sensitive, innovative fibre-optic sensors able to provide data about the physical and chemical processes at work in limestone blocks used in buildings. Molecular Steps Involved In The Creation Of Gene-silencing MicroRNAs I
MicroRNAs are small, remarkably powerful molecules that play a pivotal role in gene silencing. But how do miRNAs arise? In a study published last year in Nature, researchers at The Wistar Institute identified the earliest steps in the creation of miRNAs in the cell nucleus. Now, in a new Nature study, the Wistar group picks up the process in the cell cytoplasm and tracks it through to the maturation of the finished miRNAs.
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