You're eating healthier than ever, but your muscles feel flabby, your energy is sapped and your jeans feel increasingly snug, particularly in the belly, hips and rear. The sad truth: Metabolic rate (the number of calories we burn in a day) plummets as we age, decreasing about 1 percent each year ... Read more...
For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, but the cells live on to form new tissue. Developing this nanofiber sphere as a c... Read more...
Instead of taking a biopsy and waiting on the results to come back, doctors could someday use a special, flat microscope to scan the skin to check for skin cancer right there in their office. German researchers have developed a microscope that can scan large areas. The team of researchers at the ... Read more...
A 58-year-old grandmother is sentenced to three years’ probation and must attend cognitive behavioral therapy sessions as part of her criminal file-sharing sentence. Violet Blue asks psychologist Dr. Keely Kolmes, PsyD, if file-sharing is now considered a disorder This week a 58-year-old gra... Read more...
The U.S. Senate voted to advance a four-year extension of provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing law enforcement to track suspected terrorists with roving wiretaps. The Senate voted 79-18 to move toward a final vote on the provisions, now scheduled to expire at midnight. They would be... Read more...
Countless Americans heard about La'Shaun Armstrong, the 10-year-old boy orphaned April 12 when his mother drove herself and her four children into the Hudson River. Countless Americans wanted to do something for the boy, who escaped through a window only to learn his mother and three half-siblin... Read more...
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25/04/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Lawsuits,
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Matthew Williams, a professor at Washington College of Law, mentioned this in his impressively and refreshingly balanced blog post on the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) blog earlier today, but I wanted to emphasize the United States Patent and Trademark Office (... Read more...
Companies across the United States have started including some prescription drugs in random employee drug tests, and firing workers who test positive. For example, Sue Bates lost her job of 22 years as an assembly line worker at Dura Automotive Systems after she tested positive for hyrdrocodone, ... Read more...
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19/03/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in HAARP,
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'Meltdown': The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant moments after it was rocked by a second explosion today. Officials later admitted that fuel rods are 'highly likely' to be melting in three damaged reactors Fuel rods appear to be melting inside three over-heating reactors E... Read more...