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Hold On to Your Lightsabers: Here Comes 'Star Wars Rebels' Season 2 Read More » Leading Astronomer Violated Sexual Harassment Policies, Investigation Finds Read More » Listeria Outbreak Mystery: Weird Chemistry Tainted Caramel Apples Researchers may have finally found the source of a 2014 Listeria outbreak that was traced to caramel apples, a new study finds. Caramel apples were not considered to be a hospitable breeding ground for the disease-causing bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes. The juice from apples is acidic, and that acidity makes it hard for bacteria to grow, said Kathleen Glass, the associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Food Research Institute and lead author on the study. Read More »Repaired SpaceX rocket to fly by early December, company says Read More » Mom's Stress During Pregnancy Tied to Teen's Coordination Problems Children born to women who experienced stressful events during pregnancy may be less coordinated in their body movements as teenagers, according to a new study. The new findings suggest that "programs aimed at detecting and reducing maternal stress during pregnancy" may improve the long-term outlook for these children, study author Beth Hands, professor of human movement at the University of Notre Dame Australia, said in a statement. In the study, doctors asked 2,900 women in Australia twice during their pregnancies — at 18 weeks and 34 weeks — whether they had experienced stressful events while they were pregnant. Read More »Israeli engineer designs grounded drone delivery service Israeli industrial designer Kobi Shikar has come up with the concept of a parcel delivery drone that will never get off the ground - and that's just fine with him. The Transwheel Delivery Drone is a sensor-packed motorized unicycle that Shikar says could be an earthbound alternative to Amazon's futuristic plans to use drone multicopters to deliver packages to your front door. It's a compromise, Shikar believes, between the need for speedy delivery and the dangers of flying drones encroaching on commercial airspace. Read More »Solar plane prepares for Amazon mission By Jim Drury Student engineers from ETH Zurich are preparing to fly their world-record breaking solar plane over the Amazon rainforest. The team is fitting its AtlantikSolar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a 400 kilometer, 12 hour, flight as it seeks to push the endurance limits of solar planes. The team broke the flight endurance world record for any aircraft below 50 kilograms by flying continuously on solar powered batteries for 81.5 hours (over four days and three nights) in Zurich. Read More »Bye, Bye, Playboy Bunnies: 5 Ways Porn Affects the Brain Playboy Magazine announced yesterday (Oct. 12) that it was revamping its design. "Playboy's great success was that it legitimized sexualized images in the context of good fiction, interesting articles and groundbreaking interviews," Kim Wallen, a psychologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, wrote in an email to Live Science. The magazine, which first exploded into public consciousness when it published nude shots of Marilyn Monroe in 1953, has been losing readers for years, according the Alliance for Audited Media., largely thanks to the rise of Internet pornography. Read More »Stars and Oil: Milky Way Shines Over Texas Oilfield (Photo) Read More » New 'Habitability Index' Could Help Guide Search for Alien Life Read More » Ultrathin Microlenses Could Boost Space Science and Tech Read More » Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Exhibit Honors 1st Computer Programmer Read More » Twins! Toronto Zoo Welcomes 2 Baby Pandas Read More » Lilly pill trumps Humira in arthritis study (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co's experimental pill for rheumatoid arthritis proved superior to Abbvie Inc's leading injectable Humira treatment in a large study, which analysts said could prod them to raise sales forecasts for the medicine. Lilly said on Wednesday it was the first study to show that a once-daily oral treatment was superior to $13 billion-a-year Humira, the world's best-selling drug, in improving signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. It was the fourth successful late-stage trial for Lilly's medicine, called baricitinib, which it is developing in partnership with Incyte Corp. "What is disclosed is quite impressive - about as good an outcome as Lilly could hope for," Sanford Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson said in a research note. Read More »Science of Sexy: Why Emilia Clarke Reigns Supreme In many ways, it's not surprising Esquire picked Clarke, who plays the fearless dragon rider and rightful heir to the Iron Throne on Game of Thrones. Data from the dating website OkCupid reveals that men up to the age of 50 rate women between the ages of 20 and 24 the most beautiful. "From the time you're 22, you'll be less hot than a 20-year-old, based on this data," Christian Rudder, one of the founders of OkCupid, told fivethirtyeight.com. Read More »Two Small Pluto Moons Get Their Close-Ups (Photos) Read More » 'Cute furball' is best-preserved mammal from dinosaur age Read More » Baby Duck-Billed Dinos Unearthed in 'Dragon's Tomb' Nest Read More » (Bee)autiful Shot: Pollen-Covered Eyeball Wins 'Small World' Photo Contest Read More » Teeth from Chinese cave recast history of early human migration Read More » At Icy Saturn Moon Enceladus, Cassini Begins Final Close Encounters Read More » | ||||
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Earth's Gravitational Pull Cracks Open the Moon Read More » Chilean scientists create contraceptive vaccine for dogs Veterinary scientists in Chile have invented a contraceptive vaccine for dogs, which can be used in both males and females, and may provide an inexpensive option to help control the country's growing canine population. Scientists from the University of Chile Veterinary and Livestock Faculty developed the vaccine from an existing formula used to sterilize pigs, as professor Leonardo Saenz explains. What we did was to take the concept of immuno-castration which already existed and we developed and improved for use in domestic animals, mainly in dogs, and to create an alternative for pigs, better than what already exists. Read More »Daniel Fells' Infection: How Often Does MRSA Lead to Amputation? The nasty superbug MRSA has been linked to life-threatening conditions such as body-wide inflammation and organ failure, and now the NFL reports that New York Giants player Daniel Fells may lose his foot due to complications from an MRSA infection. Doctors found that his ankle was infected with a bacterium called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, and they fear that the infection might have spread to Fells' bone, which could make an amputation necessary, according to the NFL. Doctors say that people with MRSA infections seldom need to have a limb amputated. Read More »Many Doctors Would Work While Sick with Flu, Fever Read More » Ground Control to 'The Martian': Good Luck with Them Potatoes In the new movie "The Martian," released this week, fictional NASA astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) gets stranded on Mars and must use his wits to survive. In it, Watney is part of NASA's Ares 3 mission to the Red Planet. Watney, impaled by a flying antenna, is assumed dead, while the other crewmembers, scrambling for their own lives, leave his body behind. Read More »A Matter of Class: 2,400-Year-Old Tombs Yield Ancient Aristocrats Read More » Nichelle Nichols, Uhura on 'Star Trek,' Boldly Rides NASA's Flying Observatory Read More » How NASA and 'The Martian' Teamed Up to Inspire Students About Mars Read More » Beyond the Helix: 'Supercoiled' DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes Read More » More Kids Are Getting Ear Surgery to Avoid Being Bullied A 6-year-old boy in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently had plastic surgery to make his ears stick out less, and parents everywhere weighed in on the family's decision, perhaps without knowing all of the facts about this operation. The young boy had been bullied because of his ears — his classmates had referred to them as "elf ears," Inside Edition originally reported. In fact, this type of surgery is becoming more common, said Dr. David Staffenberg, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Read More »Repaired SpaceX rocket to fly by early December, company says Read More » Astronauts test high definition 4K camera in space Astronauts on the International Space Station inserted an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water to test a new device that can record four times the resolution of a normal high definition camera. NASA said higher resolution images and frame rate videos from the new RED Epic Dragon camera can provide more information when used in scientific experiments. Read More » | ||||
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