Bexarotene cure Alzheimer’s
Neuroscientists found bexarotene attacked what doctors call the pathology of the disease – its biological causes, the mice’s levels of soluable amyloid beta – now thought to cause brain cells to die in Alzheimer’s patients – dropped by 25 per cent within six hours of being fed the drug… [more] & [more]
Source : Telegraph & BBC
Tags: Alzheimer's cure, Bexarotene
The human library people on loan in Canadian library
The $36-million Surrey City Centre library, set to open at the end of the month, will allow users to “check out” people and pick their brains about their experiences with blindness, immigration, religion or a disability, among other things. The goal is to break down stereotypes and start discussions… [more]
Source : Canada.com
Tags: people on loan in Surrey City Centre library, The human library
Micronecta scholtzi the loudest animal on earth make noise with penis
A tiny water boatman is the loudest animal on Earth relative to its body size, a study has revealed. The insect makes the sound by rubbing its penis against its abdomen in a process known as “stridulation” Scientists recorded the aquatic animal “singing” at up to 99.2 decibels, the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play while sitting in the front row… [more]
Source : BBC
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June 28 1911 A Chunk of Nakhla Meteorite Hit Egypt and a Dog
Nakhlites are igneous rocks rich in the mineral augite. This indicates the original rock formed as a basaltic magma approximately 1.3 billion years ago, when Mars was volcanically active. … [more] & [more]
Source : Discovery News & Wikipedia
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Even blood alcohol limit isn’t safe for driving
No amount of alcohol seems to be safe for driving. Accidents are 36.6 percent more severe even when alcohol was barely detectable in a driver’s blood, even with a BAC of 0.01, there are 4.33 serious injuries for every non-serious injury versus 3.17 for sober drivers… [more]
Source : University of California San Diego
Tags: No Amount of Alcohol safe to drive
Honeybees might have feelings and emotions
Honeybee response has more in common with that of vertebrates than previously thought, the findings “suggest that honeybees could be regarded as exhibiting emotions… [more]
Source : Wired
Tags: Honeybees exhibit pessimism emotions
Biodegradable Products Harmful For The Environment
The so-called biodegradable products are likely doing more harm than good in landfills, because they are releasing a powerful greenhouse gas as they break down. Biodegradable materials, such as disposable cups and utensils, are broken down in landfills by microorganisms that then produce methane… [more]
Source : North Carolina State University
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Pseudomonas putida CBB5 The Bacteria That Lives From Caffeine
Celebrated and cursed, caffeine is actually an alluring blend of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, and the clever bacterium uses specialized enzymes as it “breaks caffeine down into carbon dioxide and ammonia, a newly described bitty bacteria called Pseudomonas putida CBB5 feast on pure caffeine all day—and presumably all night—long… [more]
Source : Scientific American
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Gut bacteria in the body modify behavior alter brain chemistry
The role of gut bacteria in the body may extend beyond the stomach and intestines all the way to the brain, the results show disrupting the normal gut flora of the mice leads to changes in the animals’ behavior, making them less timid and more adventurous, as well as leading to changes in their brain chemistry… [more]
Source : Live Science
Tags: Gut bacteria contribute to altered behavior
Before M9 earthquake above Japan atmosphere heated up rapidly
Before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck. At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up… [more]
Source : Technology Review
Tags: Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Playing a musical instrument keeps young boosts memory hearing
Researchers found that musicians are more likely to keep their memories active and also their hearing in tact. They believe that the training helps your brain be more adaptable to ageing and make adjustments for any decline in the ability to remember or ability to separate speech from background noise… [more]
Source : Telegraph
Tags: Musical training boosts memory hearing, Musical training keeps young
Robot PR2 solving Rubik’s Cube
PR2 has arrived safe and sound at the Intelligent Systems Research Center at the University of Ulster. As a quick side project for run, their Cognitive Robotics Group immediately put their PR2 to the test by having it autonomously solve a Rubik’s Cube… [more]
Source : Willow Garage
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The nanoflowers the fractals that mimic and communicate with neurons to help return eyesight
These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. They will be nanoflowers seeded from nano-sized particles of metals that grow, or self assemble, in a natural process — diffusion limited aggregation. They will be fractals that mimic and communicate efficiently with neurons… [more]
Source : e Science News
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Obesity cure transform bad white fat into good brown fat
By knocking down the expression of a protein in rat brains known to stimulate eating, researchers say they not only reduced the calorie intake and weight, but also transformed their fat into a type that burns off more energy. The finding could lead to better obesity treatments… [more]
Source : Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Tags: TURNING BAD FAT INTO GOOD
Baby treated for being drunk in hospital six year old admitted high on illegal drugs
A one-year-old child ended up in hospital for being drunk and a six-year-old was admitted while high on illegal drugs. The cases are among hundreds of children, including babies and toddlers, being treated at the Royal Bolton Hospital because of drug and alcohol abuse… [more]
Source : Daily Mail
Tags: one year old child in hospital for being drunk, six year old in hospital high on illegal drugs
Pesticide exposure in pregnant women is linked to lower IQ scores in children
Interestingly, the effect of pesticide exposure on intelligence was only significant before birth; childhood exposure to pesticides did not appear to have an impact on intelligence scores. In urban populations, pesticide exposure often comes from eating crops that have been treated with pesticides. People can also come into contact with pesticides in home gardens, schools and other public buildings with landscaping… [more]
Source : KQED
Tags: pesticide exposure in pregnant women Lower Child's IQ
Parochlus Chironomidae Diptera key to biodiversity in Ecuador
There are at least five types here in danger of becoming extinct because of the disappearing glaciers which feed the streams where they are found, the essential message is that the threat from the disappearing glaciers is not just that certain species of wildlife could be lost from the glacial-fed streams, but that the surprising variety of species in all the streams could also be reduced… [more]
Source : BBC
Tags: Bugs in the streams key to biodiversity, Olivier Dangles
Dr. Keith Ablow stress and trauma deplete your brain of chemical messengers neurotransmitters linked to comfort optimism pleasure
Living through stress and trauma can actually deplete your brain of chemical messengers neurotransmitters linked to comfort, optimism and pleasure.Trials and traumas “use up” the brain’s reserves of serotonin and norepinephrine to name just two chemical messengers… [more]
Source : Fox News
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Female Dogs do not let themselves to be fooled easily
A new study finds that when a ball appears to magically change size in front of their eyes, female dogs notice but males don’t. The researchers aren’t sure what’s behind the disparity, but experts say the finding supports the idea that—in some situations—male dogs trust their noses, whereas females trust their eyes… [more]
Source : Science Aaas
Tags: Female Dogs Aren't Easily Fooled
Brain can be half asleep tiny parts of the brain taking naps to recharge
A new study shows that, rather than being an “all or nothing” phenomenon, regions of the human brain go silent at different times through the night, losing their ability to communicate during certain phases of sleep. This discovery may partly explain disorders such as sleepwalking. It also gives humans something in common with dolphins, which are known to sleep with one part of their brain while the other part controls swimming to the surface for air… [more] & [more]
Source : University of Wisconsin & Telegraph
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Natalia Guicciardini Strozzi Italian princess ancestor of Mona Lisa exhuming its remains a sacrilegious act
The Italian princess ancestor of the women believed to have inspired the Mona Lisa has said her remains should be left in peace as archaeologists began the hunt for her body… [more]
Source : Telegraph
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How plants crops deal with stress
Like people, plants experience stress. And also, like people, the response to that stress can determine success. People can exercise, or rest, or talk about the problem. For plants, ways to deal with stress are internal. And ISU researchers are trying to understand how they do it… [more]
Source : Iowa State University
Tags: Stress management of crops and plants
E. coli like alien bacteria can breed in extreme hypergravity
Several different species of bacteria can survive and reproduce in “hypergravity” more than 400,000 times stronger than that of the Earth, the find suggests that alien life could take root in a wide range of conditions — and that it could survive the high G-forces imposed by meteorite impacts and ejections, making the exchange of life between planets a distinct possibility… [more]
Source : Space.com
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Rhinoceros population in Nepal increased to 534
The recent population census conducted by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation has revealed that the number of the endangered mammal, scientifically known as Rhinoceros unicornis, has increased to 534, marking an increase of 99 from 435 recorded in the last census in 2008… [more]
Source : The Himalayan Times
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Seaweed extract alginate in milkshake suppress hunger pangs
Scientists have found that adding the seaweed extract alginate to a chocolate milkshake suppresses hunger pangs. Men and women who drank the alginate-based drink for breakfast felt almost a third less hungry by lunchtime than those who had a normal milkshake… [more]
Source : Daily Mail
Tags: Obesity cure Seaweed extract alginate
Women twice as prone to anxiety as men
When pollsters call women up, they always confess to far higher levels of worry than men about everything from crime to the economy. Psychologists diagnose women with anxiety disorders two times as often as men, and research confirms—perhaps unsurprisingly—that women are significantly more inclined toward negative emotion, self-criticism, and endless rumination about problems… [more]
Source : Slate
Tags: women built to be much more nervous than men
Self repairing rubbery polymer healing itself under light exposure
What if mending a ripped garment, or repairing a leaky storage container, was as easy as shining a light on the damage?, the polymers are composed of small building blocks assembled “to basically mimic the molecular architecture of normal polymers, small building blocks with sticky end groups, and those sticky end groups are kind of glued together… [more]
Source : Scientific American
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A diagnostic test to predict premature birth
A new study suggests that more than 80 percent of pre-term births can be spotted in advance with a blood test taken during the second trimester of a pregnancy. The research is based on the level of certain peptides and proteins in the mother’s bloodstream during the second trimester… [more]
Source : Brigham Young University
Tags: Test May Warn of Premature Births
Tansy or mugwort a treatment for herpes
A folk remedy called tansy, a flowering plant also known as mugwort, may be an effective treatment for the sexually transmitted disease herpes. Tansy, Tanacetum Vulgare, has been used by many generations as an edible, herbal remedy to treat various respiratory problems, high fever, nervousness, fatigue, head ailments, ear ringing, and pains and aches… [more]
Source : Independent
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9 Volt battery hooked on brain improved video game skills
The technique, called transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), could improve learning. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded the research in the hope that it could be used to sharpen soldiers’ minds on the battlefield. Volunteers receiving 2 milliamps to the scalp (about one-five-hundredth the amount drawn by a 100-watt light bulb) showed twice as much improvement in the game after a short amount of training as those receiving one-twentieth the amount of current. They learn more quickly… [more] & [more]
Source : Nature & Popsci
Tags: Hooking a 9-Volt Battery To the Brain Improves Video Game Skills
Laser Acupuncture therapy for bedwetters
Acupuncture using a laser beam might help young bedwetters break the nighttime habit. Using a low-power laser, about two-thirds of the kids received acupuncture therapy on traditional bladder points three times a week for 4 weeks… [more]
Source : Fox News
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Jawbones evolved into your ear bones
The lower jaws of modern mammals have just one bone: the tooth-bearing dentary. Reptiles, by contrast, also sport smaller bones where the jaw meets the skull. Biologists have long postulated that as mammals evolved, the smaller, post-dentary bones shrank to form the tiny bones of the middle ear. The bones of your middle ear were once part of a mammalian ancestor’s jaw. Now a remarkable Cretaceous fossil provides a snapshot of how this shift took place… [more]
Source : New Scientist
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1 trillion years from now evidence of Big Bang would disappear
The trace signals from the explosion that set the universe in motion 13.7 billion years ago will likely be all gone 1 trillion years from now, the researchers said. Astronomers today can look at galaxies more than 13 billion years away that were formed only millions of years after the universe began. They can also study the so-called cosmic microwave background radiation… [more]
Source: Livescience
Tags: Big Bang evidence may disappear in 1 trillion years
Scientists have grown kidneys in laboratory
Researchers created the kidneys from stem cells taken from human amniotic fluid and animal foetuses. The artificial organs measure half a centimetre – the same size as a kidney in an unborn baby… [more]
Source : Daily Record
Tags: kidneys grown from stem cells, scientists grow kidneys in a laboratory
FBI Roswell memo three bodies of human shape
The Vault has resurfaced a memo pertaining to one of the most mysterious moments in the annals of FBI history, Roswell, N.M., that seems to give some credence to the UFO researchers. It reads: “An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots… [more] & [more] & [more] & [more]
Source : Washington Post & Independent.ie & Presstv & ABC News
Tags: FBI three bodies of human shape, The Vault Roswell memo
SPT-CLJ2106-5844 The most distant massive object known
The most massive distant cluster known, SPT-CLJ2106-5844, weighing in at 1.3 thousand trillion solar masses more than about a thousand times the Milky Way’s mass. This makes it the most massive object currently known in the distant universe… [more]
Source : Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Food Addiction Like Drug Addiction in The Brain
Seeing a milkshake can activate the same areas of the brain that light up when an addict sees cocaine, people who exhibit addictive-like eating behavior show similar activity in the same brain regions as people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues. With functional magnetic resonant imaging (fMRI), a brain imaging procedure, the researchers examined brain activity when the subjects were shown, and then drank, a chocolate milkshake. The results were compared with the subjects’ brain’s response to the anticipation and consumption of a tasteless solution… [more] & [more] & [more]
Source : Yale Rudd Center & Fox59 & Huffingtonpost
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Streptococcus mutans a bacterium like a toothbrush
Clinging to the teeth in thin layers called biofilms, S. mutans digests sugars and produces acids that can eat into enamel and cause cavities. Other bacteria are more gracious guests. Researchers have identified ally in the war against tooth decay: an enzyme produced by this mouth bacterium that prevents plaque formation. The finding could eventually lead to the development of toothpaste that harnesses the body’s own plaque-fighting tools… [more]
Source : Science AAAS
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Ginseng and saffron aphrodisiacs boost sexual desire
Try adding ginseng and saffron to your diet to spice up your sex life.Both are proven performance boosters… [more]
Source : University of Guelph
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Eye movement patterns of Chinese different to Caucasian in Britain
Scientists have found that eye movement patterns of Chinese people, born and raised in China, are different to those of Caucasian people living in Britain. The team, working with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, investigated eye movements in Chinese and British people to further understanding of the brain mechanisms that control… [more]
Source : University of Liverpool
Tags: Chinese Eye movement different of Caucasian
Sperm grown in lab for infertile men for the first time
A team from Japan developed sperm from fragments of testes from mice and used them to fertilise eggs from which healthy, fertile young were born… [more] & [more] & [more]
Source : Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine & Guardian & Independent
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Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation new cure to urinary incontinence
The latest technique known as percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation, doesn’t involve an implant. Instead, doctors insert a small needle into the calf to stimulate the tibial nerve — this runs up through the calf to the sacral plexus, the needle is connected to a device that sends electrical pulses into the nerve — and the therapy is painless… [more]
Source : Daily Mail
Tags: cure to urinary incontinence, Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation
38 percent of Americans failed U.S. citizenship test
Newsweek recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar… [more]
Source : Newsweek
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Green rust can contain radioactive waste
A highly reactive form of rust could be used to contain radioactive neptunium waste from nuclear power plants. Green rust (GR), a member of the Fe(II),Fe(III) layered double hydroxide mineral family, forms in groundwater and during steel corrosion. It has high surface area and is very reactive… [more]
Source : New Scientist
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Monkeys recognise photographs of their friends
Untrained Barbary macaques showed interest in the photos and spent more time scrutinising pictures of unfamiliar animals. The findings suggest that the primates learn with age to understand that photos are representations of faces… [more]
Source : BBC
