BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Supplement 'slows down blindness'

BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Supplement 'slows down blindness': "High doses of antioxidants found in fruit and veg could slow sight loss in elderly people, according to research."

Robert Fisk: Iran's day of destiny - Middle East, World - The Independent

Robert Fisk: Iran's day of destiny - Middle East, World - The Independent: "Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran"

Crops under stress as temperatures fall - Telegraph

Crops under stress as temperatures fall - Telegraph: "Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker."

Close encounter of the rock kind: Schoolboy survives direct hit by meteorite travelling at 30,000mph | Mail Online

Close encounter of the rock kind: Schoolboy survives direct hit by meteorite travelling at 30,000mph | Mail Online: "Gerrit was left with a scar on his hand, making him one of only a handful of people to have been struck directly by a meteorite."

Music speeds recovery - The Irish Times - Tue, Jun 09, 2009

Music speeds recovery - The Irish Times - Tue, Jun 09, 2009: "PATIENTS RECOVERING from heart surgery who were given music to listen to through headphones while they were still asleep and on ventilators, spent about three and a half hours less in an American intensive care unit (ICU) than patients receiving normal post-operative care, according to recent research."

Pouring cold water on global warming - Environment, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Pouring cold water on global warming - Environment, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk: "There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that far from global warming the earth has now entered a period of global cooling which will last at least for the next two decades.

Evidence for this comes from the NASA Microwave Sounding Unit and the Hadley Climate Research Unit while evidence that CO2 levels are continuing to increase comes from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii."

DailyTech - NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming

DailyTech - NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming: "A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth's climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution."

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study | Health | Reuters

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study | Health | Reuters: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track."

Life, health insurers invest big in tobacco - Yahoo! News

Life, health insurers invest big in tobacco - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (AFP) – Major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies, a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine said."

Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disease sufferers | The Australian

Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disease sufferers | The Australian: "Although the novel technique was used to reverse blinding corneal disease, it promises to be a quick, painless and cheap treatment for other visual disorders. It may even be useful for repairing damaged skin, the researchers reported today in the journal Transplantation.

The team leader, UNSW stem cell scientist Nick Di Girolamo said: “We're quietly excited. We don't know yet if (the correction) will remain stable, but if it does it's a wonderful technique”."

Technology Review: Five-Dimensional Data Storage

Technology Review: Five-Dimensional Data Storage: "A new light-responsive material could lead to discs the size of today's DVDs that store four orders of magnitude more data. Traditional DVDs and CDs store data on their surface in two dimensions, and holographic discs can store it in three. Now researchers have for the first time demonstrated what they call a five-dimensional optical material. It can record data in three spatial dimensions and in response to different wavelengths and polarizations of laser light."

What if global-warming fears are overblown? - May. 14, 2009

What if global-warming fears are overblown? - May. 14, 2009: "... despite those green-sounding credentials, Christy is not calling for draconian cuts in carbon emissions. Quite the contrary. Christy is actually the environmental lobby's worst nightmare - an accomplished climate scientist with no ties to Big Oil who has produced reams and reams of data that undermine arguments that the earth's atmosphere is warming at an unusual rate and question whether the remedies being talked about in Congress will actually do any good."

'US special squad killed Benazir' | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

'US special squad killed Benazir' | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online: "NEW YORK (Online) - Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.
The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.
Hersh said former US vice-president Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operation Command and he clear the way for the US by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was the in-charge of the unit."

Marijuana Chemical May Fight Brain Cancer

Marijuana Chemical May Fight Brain Cancer: "April 1, 2009 -- The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.

Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain have found that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy. Autophagy is the breakdown of a cell that occurs when the cell essentially self-digests."

White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs' - WSJ.com

White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs' - WSJ.com: "WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting 'a war on drugs,' a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use."

Schwarzenegger: Time To Debate Legalizing Pot | Political Hotsheet - CBS News

Schwarzenegger: Time To Debate Legalizing Pot | Political Hotsheet - CBS News: "In the last week or two, proposals to legalize medical marijuana have advanced in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken a significant step further, saying on Tuesday that it's time to debate legalizing marijuana for recreational use in California.

'I think it's time for debate,' he said in response to a reporter's question. 'I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues -- I'm always for an open debate on it.'"

Controlling Robots With Your Brain Closer Than You Think

Controlling Robots With Your Brain Closer Than You Think: "Honda’s amazing new technology connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics and seems straight out of a weird sci-fi flick."

Change is a cold certainty | The Australian

Change is a cold certainty | The Australian: "Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.

Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. 'I see just more and more ice, not less ice.'"

Cold Fusion Is Hot Again - CBS News

Cold Fusion Is Hot Again - CBS News: "(CBS) Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.

But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.

'We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man,' researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley."

Why night owls are cleverer and richer than people who get up early | Mail Online

Why night owls are cleverer and richer than people who get up early | Mail Online: "It has long been held that the early bird catches the worm. But it is the night owl that lasts the distance, research shows."