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Lightning-produced radiation a potential health concern for air travel
New information about lightning-emitted X-rays, gamma rays and high-energy electrons during thunderstorms is prompting scientists to raise concerns about the potential for airline passengers and crews to be exposed to harmful levels of radiation. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia possible, study finds
Biochemists have developed a urine test that can rapidly and accurately diagnose the cause of pneumonia-like symptoms. The test should enable doctors to quickly provide appropriate treatments for patients with pneumonia, an illness that is often misdiagnosed using current tests. [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. Fix a Warped Record
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 New Theory Explains Schizophrenia As Abnormal Courtship; Disorder Surv
Scientifically, schizophrenia should not exist. It crushes sexual relationships and reproductive success. Because the illness is genetic, evolution should have eliminated it long ago. Instead, it continues to afflict one in 100 people, too many to be due to just a few kinds of bad genes. A new theory proposes that schizophrenia is an inevitable consequence of courtship behaviors that have evolved expressly to reveal bad genes. G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Cultu
Collection of photos from the 1930s by photographer G.I. Jones, who researched and studied "the peoples of southeastern Nigeria -- particularly the Igbo people."Images depict festivals, masks, drums, shrines, wood figures, and other cultural artifacts. Includes a biography of the photographer and a brief bibliography. From Southern Illinois University Carbondale. RSC member benefits and online coupons
I almost had a pang of guilt, just now, worrying that the occasional post about our couponssection might offend some of the site’s more sensitive readers, but then my member’s copy of RSC News plopped on the doormat with the regular pile of junk mail and bills, and on the back I saw a whole page dedicated to “Summer Savings for RSC Members”, which listed all the various discounts you can get on insurance, hotels, books, and magazines, conferences, and symposiums (symposia?) should you happen to be a member of the RSC. So guilt pang over, I reasoned that, these occasional posts are tantamount to the same thing as the members benefits described in RSC News, they provide Sciencebase readers (and remember it’s free to join) with some useful information on finding cut-price goods, discounts, and online coupons for a whole range of goods. And, at the same time, the existence of that otherwise unobtrusive section of the site helps support the regular science news and views that I post during the rest of the week. Sampling 'Small Atmospheres' In The Tiny New Worlds Of MEMS
Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, so engineers want atmospheric knowledge of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, their "skies"capped by tiny glass bubbles. The most advanced sampling procedure known -- requiring only picoliters of gas to evaluate the contents of these small atmospheres -- is now in place at Sandia National Laboratories, a National Nuclear Security Administration facility. A Wandering Eye: Single Cells Come Running To Form An Eye
Eyes are among the earliest recognisable structures in an embryo; they start off as bulges on the sides of tube-shaped tissue that will eventually become the brain. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have now discovered that cells are programmed to make eyes early in development and individually migrate to the right place to do so. The study, published in this week's issue of Science, overturns the textbook model of the process.
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