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“Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, more...

“Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston suggest their discovery could be turned into a useful test for whether a given prion strain is transmissible from one species to another. Prion proteins are responsible for Creutzfeld-Jakob disease source...

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“Oh come now people! Seutonius's 'Twelve Caesars' revealed that all of them bar Claudius were sexually adventurous i.e. they slept with both males and females as the fancy took them. (And as the tales of the 'Tabs' continue to show source...

“If you think it's unlikely that we will all be sucked into a giant black hole that will swallow the world, as German chemistry professor Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen posits, and so carry on with your life source...

“You may have heard that there’s some sort of big science machine scheduled to turn on in Europe. Very soon, in fact: first (official) beam at the Large Hadron Collider is supposed to occur around 9:30 Central European Summer Time source...

“ Michaela was a strong, confident woman who loved mainstream contemporary pop. Her boyfriend was a fan of electronic dance music. When the two had been together for a few months, they decided to take a road trip to Philadelphia source...

“We all know about the classic texts of computer science (although, we may be a bit behind on our reading). We’ve heard a thousand times how important Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming, Abelson and Sussman’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer source...

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“When scientific terms become part of the cultural fabric they often lose their meaning. Biology has had its share of modern misunderstandings with 'evolution' becoming colloquial rather than scientific, along with the general term 'theory', which today is used by source...

“With the release today of his highly anticipated Spore, Wright is taking people on a personal journey through his childhood influences, creating a game that is sprawling in its scope, powerful in its creative tools and beguiling in the way source...

“Once shut down, the biggest problem is with damaged pipelines on the sea floor. These can often be repaired or bypassed without too much delay, but damage to the platform itself is a much bigger headache. The poster child for source...

The artists who drew these cartoons have all used their creative talent to draw attention to the misuse and distortion of federal government science.

“The breakthrough is described in a paper, “High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires,” published online Dec. 16 in Nature Nanotechnology. The paper was written by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, his graduate chemistry student Candac source...

“Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have identified a gene that may influence the production of antibodies that neutralize HIV. This new information will likely spur source...