April 27, 2009 – 8:48 am
Hmm, what to do, what to do Plants absorbed carbon dioxide more efficiently under the polluted skies of recent decades than they would have done in a cleaner atmosphere, according to new findings published this week in Nature. The results of the study have important implications for efforts to combat future climate change which are […]
April 19, 2009 – 7:07 pm
“President Barack Obama learns that walking an active puppy wearing leather soled shoes with your daughter in the way can be difficult.” See more on First pets at The Telegraph. (BTW, I am laughing with him, not at him. Who hasn’t learned what a handful a puppy can be? I don’t think the British press […]
April 18, 2009 – 2:12 pm
As the headline at Fark stated, if they clone a camel, they can combine sex ed and drivers ed into one class Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients, the leader of the research said Wednesday. The female goat, named Hana, was […]
April 18, 2009 – 8:37 am
Mixed bag: Some Stem Cell Research Limits Lifted The Obama administration announced Friday that it planned to lift some but not all federal financing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, drawing criticism both from abortion opponents and from scientists who had expected a more liberal policy. Guidelines proposed by the National Institutes of Health […]
April 2, 2009 – 9:42 am
This should give hope to the folks who back the use of ESCs Scientists have announced a “major breakthrough†in attempts to find a cure for deafness after the cells vital for hearing were grown in a laboratory. Early versions of the sensory hair cells and the brain cells that enable hearing have been made […]
March 30, 2009 – 8:18 am
I wonder if this is what Obama meant by “sound science over politics?” A STEM cell therapy offering “natural†breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time. The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves extracting stem cells from spare fat on the stomach or […]
March 23, 2009 – 7:56 pm
I often find it interesting that news reports and scientific investigations into AGW so often provide proof that, as Battlestar Galactica fans will realize, this has all happened before and will happen again Scientists are to dig up ice dating back more than 100,000 years in an attempt to shed light on how global warming […]
March 22, 2009 – 4:53 pm
Sometimes these Believers give me a headache with their so-called “science.” Global Warming Effects Causes Further Climate Change Climate change is very real, according to top scientists who are studying the current conditions caused by global warming. This current generation is watching more changes than any previous on Earth. A team of scientists at Stanford […]
March 14, 2009 – 8:07 am
On Monday, The One signed legislation reversing the Evil!!!!! Boooooosh’s (I spend too much time at the DU) ban on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research, saying he would put “sound science over politics,” and liberals/progressives/surrender monkeys rejoiced. But, they might want to hold off finishing the mary jane brownies and grape kool […]
March 12, 2009 – 8:32 am
Pure comedy. You have to wonder if people even read what they write. From the Planet In Peril portion of CNN: Team battles Arctic winter to measure melting ice caps It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice […]