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Powering Up, One Step at a Time
The world's most innovative renewable energy source might be right under our feet. By Eliza Barclay. The Snarky ViceSquad Is Ready to Be Taken Seriously. Seriousl
VBS.tv, a new web-based TV channel created by the scruffy misanthropes behind Vicemagazine, is elbowing its way into the crowded young industry of internet television. All the players are looking for an audience for original online video, and VBS.tv editors are using the jaundiced worldview of their street-culture rag to inform their coverage of global events. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Lead-based Paint Problem Isn't Isolated To China, Study Shows
A multinational team of environmental and occupational health researchers has found that consumer paints sold in Nigeria contain dangerously high levels of lead. Increased globalization and outsourcing of manufacturing has drastically increased the likelihood that products with unacceptably high levels of lead are being traded across borders -- including between China and Africa as well into regulated countries like the US. Cassini Is On The Trail Of A Runaway Mystery
NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus'mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway"process that is transporting vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white areas of the Saturnian moon. This "thermal segregation"model may explain many details of the moon's strange and dramatically two-toned appearance, which have been revealed exquisitely in images collected during a recent close flyby of Iapetus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. New Nicotine-like Imaging Agent Holds Promise In PET Studies, May Help
The chemical nicotine--a main ingredient in tobacco--may hold promise in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, give insight into therapeutic interventions for nicotine addiction and possibly complement the diagnosis of certain forms of lung cancer, according to a study in the January issue of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 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. Strong Demand For HIV Meds After High-risk Sex
People who do not have HIV but seek antiretroviral medications following high-risk sexual encounters are very likely to complete the full month-long drug regimen, according to a new study. Moreover, there is a strong demand for publicly available post-exposure prophylaxis among high-risk populations. Based on these findings, the researchers recommend that post-exposure HIV prophylaxis be made available to citizens who have engaged in high-risk sex. An Irregular Heartbeat Makes Exercise Deadly
Humans lacking the protein cardiac calsequestin (CASQ2) have a normal heartbeat when not exercising, but their heartbeat becomes irregular when they exercise, putting them at risk for sudden death. A new study in mice, by researchers from Vanderbilt University, has now shed light on why the lack of CASQ2 only triggers an irregular, and potentially fatal, heartbeat during exercise. Stay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin
The 30 Rockstar -- at the peak of his career after overcoming adversity again and again and again -- ushers Wiredthrough his greatest flops.
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