29.12.09

Grow-your-own to replace false teeth | UK news | The Guardian

Grow-your-own to replace false teeth | UK news | The Guardian: "The British institution of dentures sitting in a glass of water beside the bed could be rendered obsolete by scientists who are confident that people will soon be able to replace lost teeth by growing new ones."

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why: "HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:"

27.12.09

High Expectations? States Weigh Pot Reform - ABC News

High Expectations? States Weigh Pot Reform - ABC News: "Washington is one of four states where measures to legalize and regulate marijuana have been introduced, and about two dozen other states are considering bills ranging from medical marijuana to decriminalizing possession of small amounts of the herb."

22.12.09

Individuals can no longer register domain names in China.

Individuals can no longer register domain names in China.: "In a drastic move to tighten regulations of the Internet, individuals can no longer register domain names in China, and those who already have personal websites could lose them."

Russia | Crime

Russia | Crime: "MOSCOW, Russia — Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern Russia chose a more peaceful method: Police say Galina Korzhova hypnotised a bank teller into handing over tens of thousands of dollars in what is believed to be just one in a series of daring, if non-violent, bank robberies."

20.12.09

Fingernail-sized implant successfully eliminates tumors in mammals

Fingernail-sized implant successfully eliminates tumors in mammals: "“Inserted anywhere under the skin - much like the implantable contraceptives that can be placed in a woman’s arm - the implants activate an immune response that destroys tumor cells,” said David J. Mooney the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering who led the research."

19.12.09

No smoking hot spot | The Australian

No smoking hot spot | The Australian: "... but since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, 'When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?'"

Disappearing sunspots may signal end to global warming

Disappearing sunspots may signal end to global warming: "The blank sun has not gone unnoticed by the experts. 'We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum,' says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

'This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century,' agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

So why are sunspots under the spotlight? Because, according to solar scientists, their declining numbers, significant even by solar-minimum standards, could be the harbinger of colder temperatures ahead."

17.12.09

BBC News - Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer

BBC News - Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer: "'As more cancer genomes are revealed by this technique, we will gain a greater understanding of how cancer is caused and develops, improving our ability to prevent, treat and cure cancer.'"

16.12.09

CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' | Mail Online

CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' | Mail Online: "Having a CT - or CAT - scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim."

15.12.09

Daily Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why

Daily Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why: "HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:"

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online: "Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease."

BBC News - People who look young for their age 'live longer'

BBC News - People who look young for their age 'live longer': "People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who look more than their years, work shows."

9.12.09

Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway | Mail Online

Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway | Mail Online: "A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled."

Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation' - Telegraph

Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation' - Telegraph: "Professor Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, said the recent warming period was caused by solar activity."

Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation' - Telegraph

Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation' - Telegraph: "Professor Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, said the recent warming period was caused by solar activity.

He said the last time the world experienced such high temperatures, during the medieval warming period, the Sun and the Earth were in a similar cycle."

6.12.09

Doctors take legal action to demand Kelly inquest reopened - Home News, UK - The Independent

Doctors take legal action to demand Kelly inquest reopened - Home News, UK - The Independent: "Six doctors are taking legal action to demand that the inquest into the death of weapons expert David Kelly is reopened because there is not enough evidence to prove he committed suicide, it was disclosed today."

3.12.09

Ron Paul: Every man for himself! - Americas, World - The Independent

Ron Paul: Every man for himself! - Americas, World - The Independent: "It's taken a while, but America is warming to Ron Paul and his radical brand of extreme libertarianism"

24.11.09

BBC News - Morphine 'might spread cancer'

BBC News - Morphine 'might spread cancer': "Laboratory tests suggest morphine could in fact encourage the spread of cancer, for which it is routinely prescribed to relieve pain from surgery and tumours."

22.11.09

Oceans to fall, not rise, over millions of years | Reuters

Oceans to fall, not rise, over millions of years | Reuters: "OSLO (Reuters) - Sea levels are set to fall over millions of years, making the current rise blamed on climate change a brief interruption of an ancient geological trend, scientists said on Thursday."