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Clean bill of health: Scientists have shown that clearing damaged protein from the liver helps stop age decline in the organ (Source: iStockphoto) Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.
Scientists stop the ageing process (ABC News in Science) « K21st – Essential 21st Century Knowledge
From toxicity to life: arsenic proves to be a building block
LLNL's Jennifer Pett-Ridge, right, runs the NanoSIMS and analyzes some arsenic-grown cells from Mono Lake as NASA/USGS's Felisa Wolfe-Simon observes.
Highly infectious viral diseases -including the Plague, yellow fever, measles, smallpox and he Spanish Flu, which killed 50 million people at the end of the First World War, moving from one cell to the next, transforming each new host into a factory that makes even more virus.
"Junk DNA" Allowed Us to Survive as a Species (Today's Most Popular)
What happens when you outfit a robot with a pair of prosthetic blades and fourteen artificial, pneumatic-powered muscles? You end up with a bipedal humanoid who researchers hope will have the ability to run like a sprinter . Simply referred to as Athlete, it is the pet project of Japanese researcher Ryuma Niiyama, who began working on the mecha-sprinter while completing his PhD at the University of Tokyo (he's since moved onto post-doctorate work at MIT).
Someday, This Robot Will Run Faster Than Us All
Chronicle: Evidence for psychic activity found
It took eight years and nine experiments with more 1,000 participants, but the results offer evidence that humans have some ability to anticipate the future.