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[Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Neurons Targeted By Dementing Illness May Have Evolved For Complex Soc
Von Economo neurons (VENs) are uniquely shaped brain cells that seem to have evolved in a select group of socially complex species: great apes, humans, and, as reported last month, whales. Across species, VENs are localized to frontal brain regions associated with cognition, emotion and social behavior. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a common neurodegenerative condition, is characterized by early breakdown in social and emotional awareness and is accompaniedby atrophy and dysfunction in the brain areas where VENs are located. New Technique Uses Seismic 'Garbage' To View Earth's Interior
Seismologists have long relied on earthquakes or expensive tools like explosives to help create images of Earth's interior, but a new method created by University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) researchers will produce quicker, cheaper and clearer images. Intensive-care Patients With Alcohol Problems Are More Likely To Requi
More than 300,000 patients receive mechanical ventilation during intensive care per year in the United States, even though the hospital mortality rate for ventilated patients can approach 50 percent. New findings indicate that medical patients with an alcohol-use disorder are more likely to require mechanical ventilation, and/or need it for a longer period of time. Hair today, gone tomorrow
Over on baldiness.com, the blogging bald guy asks why the hirsute place so much emphasis on hair while those who are follicularly challenged or waxed lyrical cranially don’t seem that fussed.As you will see from the photo on my resume page I too am less than hirsute from the neck up and so feel I [...] Conductive Plastic Fights Corrosion
Copper has been successfully covered with a conductive polymer that creates a barrier with the corrosive environment while leaving the conductive property of the material untouched. Conductive polymers are remarkable materials - plastics with a slightly altered composition that make them capable of conducting electricity. Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billi
Computer designers at the University of Rochester are going ballistic. "Everyone has been trying to make better transistors by modifying current designs, but what we really need is the next paradigm,"says the inventor of the "Ballistic Deflection Transistor,"and it's as far from traditional transistors as tubes. Instead of pushing electrons as if they were a current, the ballistic design bounces individual electrons off deflectors as if playing a game of atomic billiards. Researcher Creates First Temperature Record For The Great Plains
While temperature records dating back thousands of years already exist for certain regions of the United States, like the East Coast and the Northwest, no such record exists for the North American Great Plains. But now, a Baylor University researcher along with a team of scientists has developed a new method to measure temperature fluctuations in the Great Plains, creating a temperature record for that area of the country dating back 12,000 years. Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain
UW-Madison scientists have found a new way to sneak drugs past the blood-brain barrier by engineering and implanting progenitor brain cells derived from stem cells to produce and deliver a critical growth factor that has already shown clinical promise for treating Parkinson's disease. Apple Draws Flak for Obscuring IPhone's Difficult Battery Replacement
The new gadget's battery is soldered in and cannot simply be swapped out. Apple failed to mention this before the iPhone went on sale, and is now hearing about it.
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