New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys : NPR

New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys : NPR: "A team led by Thomas Geisbert of Boston University has used an experimental drug to protect monkeys from death after injecting them with massive doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola."

Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer - AOL News

Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer - AOL News: "WASHINGTON (May 24) -- Almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, according to an evaluation of those products released today.

AOL News also has learned through documents and interviews that the Food and Drug Administration has known of the potential danger for as long as a decade without alerting the public, which the FDA denies."

The memos and minutes that confirm Israel's nuclear stockpile | World news | guardian.co.uk

The memos and minutes that confirm Israel's nuclear stockpile | World news | guardian.co.uk: "This is the secret memo by South Africa's military chief of staff, General RF Armstrong, asking for nukes on the Jericho missiles. It has been revealed before, but its context was not understood. We now know the memo was the direct result of a meeting between PW Botha and Shimon Peres, and the basis of Botha's demand for nukes."

The Impact of the September 2008 Economic Collapse - The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Impact of the September 2008 Economic Collapse - The Pew Charitable Trusts: "Also, the combined peak loss from declining stock and home values totaled nearly $100,000, on average per U.S. household, during the July 2008 to March 2009 period."

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian: "Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons."

Finland postal service to open mail and send scanned email copies - Telegraph

Finland postal service to open mail and send scanned email copies - Telegraph: "Finland's postal service is to begin opening household mail and sending scanned copies of letters by email to cut down on costs and pollution."

BBC News - Magnets 'can modify our morality'

BBC News - Magnets 'can modify our morality': "Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses."

Study: Daylight saving time a waste of energy

Study: Daylight saving time a waste of energy: "(PhysOrg.com) -- Daylight saving time is supposed to reduce energy use, but data gathered from a state in the US suggests it actually does the opposite."

Princeton University - A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

Princeton University - A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain: "A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same."

Married for a Minute | Mother Jones

Married for a Minute | Mother Jones: "In the Islamic Republic of Iran, sex outside of marriage is a crime, punishable by up to 100 lashes or, in the case of adultery, death by stoning. Yet the purpose of a temporary marriage is clear from its name in Arabic—mut'a, pleasure. A man and a woman may contract a mut'a for a finite period of time—from minutes to 99 years or more—and for a specific amount, mehr in Farsi, which the man owes the woman."

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout: "ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2010) — Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating."

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity -- Engadget

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity -- Engadget: "Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by tweaking a device's power supply. By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password."

Report links vaccines to Gulf war syndrome | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Report links vaccines to Gulf war syndrome | UK news | guardian.co.uk: "A senior army doctor has provided the first official support for claims that the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers before the 1991 war in Iraq probably caused illnesses that became known as Gulf war syndrome, it was reported today.

For 13 years, the MoD has denied that vaccines could be blamed for the illnesses. Independent research has also failed to find conclusive proof of a common link between the vaccines and a Gulf war-related syndrome.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Graham Howe, clinical director of psychiatry with the British forces health service in Germany, has made a link between the vaccines and illnesses associated with claims of Gulf war syndrome."

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican - Telegraph

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican - Telegraph: "'The Devil resides in the Vatican and you can see the consequences,' said Father Amorth, 85, who has been the Holy See's chief exorcist for 25 years."

Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie' - Yahoo! News

Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie' - Yahoo! News: "TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie' used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported."

Dubai police chief says to seek Netanyahu arrest | Reuters

Dubai police chief says to seek Netanyahu arrest | Reuters: "DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's police chief plans to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's spy agency over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported."

A Secretive Start-Up Raises the Curtain - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A Secretive Start-Up Raises the Curtain - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: "In The New York Times on Wednesday, I wrote about Bloom Energy, the once-secretive Silicon Valley start-up that has apparently made a big breakthrough in developing a fuel cell that can generate electricity at competitive prices while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions."

Inside the Beltway - Washington Times

Inside the Beltway - Washington Times: "A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

'In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards,' says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth."

Small liquid sensor may detect cancer instantly, could lead to home detection kit

Small liquid sensor may detect cancer instantly, could lead to home detection kit: "ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2010) — What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test? A University of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers."

All eyes on Bloom Box fuel cell launch | Environment | guardian.co.uk

All eyes on Bloom Box fuel cell launch | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Anticipation and suspicion run high before launch of Bloom Box, claimed to be a cheap source of clean energy from a device the size of a loaf of bread"