It’s easy to think of an earthquake as a Californian problem for the rest of the U.S., but the truth — only made more clear by Tuesday’s 5.8-magnitude tectonic jiggling — is that the rest of the country is in danger, too. In fact, just this…
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Category Archives: Medical
How bad could a Midwestern U.S. earthquake be? Pretty bad
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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Drug boosts lifespan of fat mice by 44%, could work on humans too
Posted by admin on August 22, 2011
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Thanks to a new drug, you may soon be able to be morbidly obese without it having any sort of detrimental impact on your lifespan. At least, if you’re a mouse.
It’s a fairly well-established fact that animals on very low-calorie diets li…
Mercedes F1 designs a bionic hand for a kid who asked nicely
Posted by admin on August 15, 2011
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14-year-old Matthew James wrote to the head of Mercedes’ F1 team asking them for $57,000 for a bionic hand. It was kind of a joke when he sent it off, but the hand they made him in response certainly isn’t; it’s the most advanced prosthetic hand in the…
Skin circuitry means solar-powered interactive LED tattoos
Posted by admin on August 12, 2011
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A new process that allows complex circuitry and electrical component to be applied directly to the skin is big news for medical sensors, but it could also lead to LED tattoos, video game interfaces that are integrated into your body, and even direct co…
Prototype glove gives wearers superhuman sense of touch
Posted by admin on August 4, 2011
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A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology is proving that you don’t need to be bitten by a radioactive spider or be dumped into a vat of mysterious chemicals to enjoy superpowers. In fact, having an enhanced sense of touch could be as simp…
There is now a cure for ‘feeling like crap’
Posted by admin on August 3, 2011
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Being sick sucks. And while we can’t always cure what ails us, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have figured out where that general feeling of lousiness we get when we’re stick actually comes from, and they think they can make it …
Super thin and cheap chip tells you if you’ve got HIV in 15 mins
Posted by admin on August 3, 2011
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Getting HIV test results usually takes days for the clinic to drop the news on you, but a new credit-card-sized chip called the “mChip” only takes 15 minutes to diagnose a sample of blood. It’s also only $1 and is reportedly has a 100 percent detection…
Cloned beagle glows in the dark, comes with on/off switch
Posted by admin on July 28, 2011
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With one of those conventional glowing dogs that you can find at PetCo or outside of your local nuclear power plant, the incessant light can become an issue when you’re trying to watch a movie or something. South Korean scientists have put an end to th…
A long-term, universal flu shot is in the works
Posted by admin on July 27, 2011
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You generally have to get a flu shot every year, as the vaccine needs to be updates to take on the specific mutations of the virus that are floating around that season. But researchers are working on a new flu vaccine that would last for years.
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