lurking_giant sends along a Reuters report on research out of Sweden indicating that a diet rich in fat, sugar, and cholesterol could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, at least in mice. “‘On analyzing the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the Alzheimer brain,’ [said] Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet’s A...... [Show More]
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Dorian Cox, the 27-year-old guitarist of the indie band The Long Blondes, thought his guitar playing days were over after he suffered a stroke. He now has a glimmer of hope thanks to some neurological physiotherapy which includes a cutting-edge piece of medical technology. The SaeboFlex helps patients by supporting their wrists and helping them grasp and releas...... [Show More]
Slatterz introduces us to the first major study on “cyb erchondria ” by Microsoft researchers (abstract, paper [PDF]). The news that it can be a bad idea to search the World wide web to see if you have a terrible disease should come as no surprise. According to the NYTimes article, the syndrome has been known as “cyb erchondria ” since at least the year 2000 (we dis...... [Show More]
merg717 writes “Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube (Science, 10 October, p. 186). By the 11 p.m. deadline this past Sunday, 36 dances — including solo ballet and circus spectacle — had been submitted on the web.” The vitamin...... [Show More]
Roland Piquepaille writes “NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission. As you probably know, current astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don’t know much about it, but speculate that it is present nearly since the beginning of our Univers...... [Show More]
Toren Altair writes “SpaceX made good progress with their Falcon 9 rocket. Check the progress with pictures. ‘Today we fitted the F9 skirt to the fuel tank end of the 1st stage. Also had movement on the erector, with the upper aluminum truss just coming back from being painted. Activity on the floor is constant and will remain so throughout the week and weekend as we prepare the F9 str...... [Show More]
thepacketmaster writes “A previous slashdot article I posted mentioned the possibility of Stephen Hawking coming to Canada. The Toronto Star now reports that he has accepted the position. Hawking will hold the title of distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.”
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missb writes “US researchers have found that prenatal treatment for Down syndrome works in mice. This raises the possibility that a pregnant woman who knows her unborn child has Down syndrome might be able to forestall some of the symptoms before giving birth. When fetal mouse pups that had a syndrome similar to Down’s were treated with nerve-protecting chemicals, some of the developme...... [Show More]
NASA better come up with some good reasons to keep Ares and Orion alive, because Barack Obama is no JFK: The office of the President Elect has send them a questionnaire asking some tough questions about our favorite space program , Space News reports. You know, the one which is supposed to take Humanity back to the Moon and go to Mars. In fact, the questionare goes as far as asking if NASA could ...... [Show More]
Matt_dk writes “Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that’s directly linked to the origin of life in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist. The international team of researchers used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the molecule in a huge star forming region of space, some 26,000 light years from Earth.”
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gaijinsr writes “The damage done in what CERN calls the ‘S34 Incident’ (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty qu...... [Show More]
HanzoSpam sends us this story from Space News, which begins: “US President-elect Barack Obama’s NASA transition team is asking US space agency officials to quantify how much money could be saved by canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scaling back the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle next year. … The questionnaire, ‘NASA Presidential Transition Team Requests for Informatio n,’.. .... [Show More]
SpaceSlug writes “The world’s largest digital camera is to be used to keep an eye out for asteroids heading towards Earth. The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-S TARRS) has been built by researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab. At its heart is a 1.4 billion pixel (or 1400 megapixel) camera that will scan the night sky looking for rogue near-Earth ...... [Show More]
muggs was one of several readers to note a fluffy piece making the rounds about an astronaut inventing a zero-g coffee cup. Of course, since the space station inhabitants drink recycled urine, I’m still not absolutely convinced that I would want to try that cup.
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the_other_chewey writes “At their test facility in Texas, SpaceX, the privately funded space-flight company, have successfully tested their nine-engine cluster which is planned to provide the heavy lifting capability for their Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy rockets. The firing lasted three minutes (a full ‘mission duty cycle,’ i.e. a simulated launch) under full power, deliv...... [Show More]
Leo en slashdot que la avería del LHC es mas grave de lo que se pensaba, así que la puesta en marcha del acelerador se hará, como muy pronto, a finales del verano del 2009 y que el trabajo científico no comenzará hasta bien entrado el 2010 (snif). El CERN ha publicado un informe en formato PDF sobre el incidente y la reparación. El informe puede descargarse desde este enlace ....... [Show More]
IHateEverybody writes “Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The chunks are being ripped up along ‘magnetic umbrellas,’ which are bubbles of magnetic fields which rise from the ground and extend above the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising beca...... [Show More]
clarkn0va writes “Witnesses as far as 720 kilometers apart reported seeing what looked like a bright meteor falling somewhere on the Saskatchew an-Alberta boundary around 5:30 pm MT Thursday, according to the CBC. Here’s video of the incident as seen from Edmonton.”
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circletimessquare brings us an update to the status of the million-dollar Netflix competition to develop a better algorithm for motion picture recommendations. We’ve discussed aspects of the competition since it started two years ago, but the New York Times has a lengthy overview of where it stands now. “The Netflix competition is still going strong, with a vibrant, competitive roster ...... [Show More]
holy_calamity writes “Some grainy black and white movies are receiving rave reviews from scientists. They’re taken by a new microscope which, thanks to a ’str obing̵ 7; electron gun, can image movement at sub-nanometer scales. Until now, only still images that smeared out movement were possible at such scales. The press release notes, ‘The researchers first blasted the sa...... [Show More]
gpronger writes “The ATIC (Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter) has potentially discovered the presence of dark matter close (only 3000 light-years) to our solar system. The system detected a large-amount of high energy cosmic rays which match the theoretical signature of dark matter annihilating itself. The universe is believed to be composed of about 25% dark matter, b...... [Show More]
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