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The Eye of Sauron

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Via NASA:

Oil Company Remote Vehicle Captures Image of Alien

Friday, November 28th, 2008

I, for one, welcome my new alien overlords. Creepy, but very cool.

Anti-Aging Drugs – Just What the Doctor Ordered?

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Very cool: Early but intriguing research on mice suggests a new mechanism of aging, and possibly a way to stall it. Drugs designed to target one aspect of aging also seem to help repair DNA damage and regulate gene activity, preventing them from going haywire with the stresses of time. “In principle, we now could [...]

Momma Bear and Momma Bear

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

But, they should still be able to get married: Puzzled Japanese zookeepers have cleared up a mystery over a lack of chemistry between a couple of polar bears as both turn out to be female, a Japanese zoo said Wednesday. Tsuyoshi, a four-year-old “male” polar bear, and his 11-year-old female partner, Kurumi, have been living [...]

Lots of Ice Water on Mars

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Water is necessary for human survival. There’s lots of water on Mars: Giant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new possibilities in the [...]

More Good News: Woman’s Lungs Repaired with Her Own Tissue

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I’d mentioned that today was good-news-from-the-world-of-science day. Here’s more: The development of patient-specific tissues and organs for transplantation is a major target for many researchers working in biomedical engineering. A shortage of organ donors, and the necessity to knock out the recipients’ immune systems to prevent graft rejection, are both serious issues facing transplant surgeons, [...]

A Mammoth Question: Who Pays for Basic Research?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

The idea of resurrecting the mammoth is very cool, but: There is no present way to synthesize a genome-size chunk of mammoth DNA, let alone to develop it into a whole animal. But Dr. Schuster said a shortcut would be to modify the genome of an elephant’s cell at the 400,000 or more sites necessary [...]

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