High Dose Vitamin C: A Complementary Cancer Therapy
Vitamin C is a time old Antioxidant, an anti aging and immunity enhancing agent. There is increasing evidence now that high dose of Vitamin C, which can only be given […]
Skydiver breaks speed of sound in historic jump from edge of space
Source: CNN Authors: Dugald McConnell, Josh Levs and Brian Todd, The Austrian daredevil, in fact, rose to the edge of space Sunday — 128,100 feet, or 24 miles, above the Earth — before plunging faster than the speed of sound. Minutes later, he landed in southeastern […]
Why We Recoil at Unpleasant Sounds
ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) — Heightened activity between the emotional and auditory parts of the brain explains why the sound of chalk on a blackboard or a knife on a bottle is so unpleasant. In a study published today in theJournal of Neuroscience and funded by the Wellcome Trust, Newcastle University scientists […]
New technologies are usually not a reason for mass unemployment
Story Summary Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment. However, neoclassical economists disagreed, predicting that this would not happen because people would find other jobs, albeit possibly after a long period of painful adjustment. Two hundred years of […]
‘Three people, one baby’ public consultation begins
BBC: The technique could be used to prevent debilitating and fatal “mitochondrial” diseases, which are passed down only from mother to child. However, the resulting baby would contain genetic information […]
Astronomers find diamond planet twice the size of Earth (wow! that would slash the prices of engagement rings!)
Forget a diamond the size of the Ritz – astronomers have discovered a planet partly made out of diamond, and at an incredible 40 light years away from Earth, it is visible to the naked eye. While visually appealing, with no atmosphere and temperatures reaching 1,648 degrees Celsius it’s hardly […]
LUMS Fundraising Campaign for Abdus Salam Chair
LUMS: The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is proud to announce its campaign to create an Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS and encourages all to contribute to it generously […]
Experts Challenge Super Food Claims: Healthy-Giving Properties of Broccoli, Blueberries, May Not Make It Past the Gut
ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — They have been the mainstay of the health industry for the best part of a decade, but now researchers at London’s Kingston University are using an approach that allows them to delve deeper into the effectiveness of health-promoting ‘super foods’ and their elixir-giving ilk. While there’s […]
The French beekeepers and the mystery of the blue honey
Beekeepers in northeastern France are all abuzz after their bees started producing blue honey. Since August beekeepers in the town of Ribeauville have witnessed their bees returning to the cluster […]
Benefits of circumcision outweigh risks, U.S. pediatrics group says
HealthNews: CHICAGO (Reuters) – The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines saying the health benefits of infant circumcision outweigh the risks of the surgery, but the influential physician’s group has fallen short of a universal recommendation of the procedure for all infants, saying that parents should make the […]
Social Bullying Prevalent in Children’s Television
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) — A new research study led by an Indiana University professor has found that social bullying is just as prevalent in children’s television as depictions of physical aggression. The study, “Mean on the Screen: Social Aggression in Programs Popular With Children,” which appears in the Journal of Communication, found […]
Digital Age overload: ‘Internet addiction’ to be classified as mental illness
RT: Think twice the next time you play a videogame or surf the Net: ‘Internet-use disorder’ is set to be added to the list of mental illnesses in the worldwide psychiatric manual. Kids are identified as being especially at risk. The international mental health encyclopedia known as the ‘Diagnostic and […]
Taking Mathematics to Heart
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) — Mathematics might seem like an abstract discipline, remote from real-world applications but their equations can significantly help understand and simulate the functioning of nature. Professor Alfio Quarteroni of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) is leading the Mathcard project in developing mathematical models of the […]
Vatican Paper Says ‘Jesus’ Wife’ Scrap Is Fake
Huff Post: VATICAN CITY — The Vatican newspaper has added to the doubts surrounding Harvard University’s claim that a 4th century Coptic papyrus fragment showed that some early Christians believed that Jesus was married, declaring it a “fake.” The newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published an article Thursday by leading Coptic scholar […]
Research yields promising advance in solar cells based on nanocarbon
Source: R&D An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at the University of Kansas (KU) has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic (PV) cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically drop the costs of PV technology in the future. “We actually broke the all-carbon PV […]
(Genetically modified plants): Scientists’ findings don’t satisfy politicians
A Swiss study commissioned by the government shows that GM plants are safe, but many aren’t convinced by Marc-Andre Miserez, swissinfo.ch Banned from Switzerland until the end of 2013, genetically […]
Science and Monotheism!
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “If there had been in the heavens and the earth other gods besides Allah, then surely both would […]
SARS II? Public health officials on alert after new virus detected
RT: World Health Organization (WHO) officials are on alert after two confirmed cases and one suspected case of a new virus from the same family as SARS appeared in Saudi Arabia last week. Doctors are watching for any sign the disease may spread. The cases involve a coronavirus (named for […]
Siberian Discovery Could Bring Scientists Closer to Cloning Woolly Mammoth
Source: Time Magazine The key to cloning a woolly mammoth may be locked into the Siberian permafrost. At least, that’s what scientists in the blustery Russian tundra are hoping. An […]
Ancient Tooth Found, Suggests Use of Beeswax To Treat Toothache
Huff Post: An ancient cracked tooth repaired with a filling made of beeswax may be the earliest known example of therapeutic dentistry, researchers say. The tooth is 65 centuries old and was part of a man’s jaw found more than 100 years ago in Slovenia. Definite evidence of ancient dentistry […]