Archive for November, 2015
End of Daily Injections for People with Type 1 Diabetes
November 26th, 2015Via: Telegraph: The end of daily injections for diabetes sufferers could be in sight after scientists showed it is possible to restore insulin production for up to a year by boosting the immune system. Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain suffer from Type 1 diabetes and need to inject themselves daily to keep blood […]
British Government Compensates Women Who Spent Years in Fake Relationships with Undercover Cops
November 25th, 2015Via: Guardian: Back then, the public knew little about a covert operation that had been running since 1968. Only a limited number of senior police officers knew about it. Kennedy was one of more than 100 undercover officers who, over the previous four decades, had transformed themselves into fake campaigners for years at a time, […]
Blue Origin: Successful Reusable Rocket Test
November 24th, 2015Via: NPR: It started with a boom and ended with a touchdown: Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has sent a craft past the edge of space and then landed its rocket safely – and vertically — in Texas. The flight of the New Shepard spacecraft was the second full […]
China Opening “The World’s Biggest Animal Cloning Factory”
November 24th, 2015Via: Telegraph: The world’s biggest animal “cloning factory” is due to open in China, producing one million calves a year, sniffer dogs and even genetic copies of the family pet. … The factory, which will include a 15,000 square metre laboratory, an animal centre, a gene bank and an exhibition hall, is currently being built […]
Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane
November 24th, 2015Update: Shot Down Over Syria — Via: Guardian: A furious Vladimir Putin labelled Turkey “accomplices of terrorists” and warned of “serious consequences” after a Turkish F-16 jet shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday morning, the first time a Nato country and Moscow have exchanged direct fire over the crisis in Syria. Putin, speaking ahead […]
Truck Apparently Carrying Nuclear Weapon Rear Ended by Vehicle in Security Convoy
November 24th, 2015Via: YouTube: More: DailyMail Research Credit: ottilie
Dominican Republic Issues Warrants Over Fugitive French Pilots
November 24th, 2015Via: BBC: A judge in the Dominican Republic has issued arrest warrants for three Frenchmen accused of helping two French pilots flee drug convictions. One of the three, Aymeric Chauprade, is an independent right-wing member of the European parliament. The pilots were arrested in 2013 preparing to take off in a plane carrying 26 suitcases […]
DNA ‘Vaccine’ Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead to One-Shot Birth Control
November 24th, 2015Mice and cats… *wink* Via: Science: Animal birth control could soon be just a shot away: A new injection makes male and female mice infertile by tricking their muscles into producing hormone-blocking antibodies. If the approach works in dogs and cats, researchers say, it could be used to neuter and spay pets and to control […]
Animal Magnetic Sense Comes from Protein That Acts as a Compass
November 23rd, 2015Via: New Scientist: Quick – can you tell where north is? Animals as diverse as sea turtles, birds, worms, butterflies and wolves can, thanks to sensing Earth’s magnetic field. But the magnet-sensing structures inside their cells that allow them to do this have evaded scientists – until now. A team led by Can Xie’s at […]
UW Team Refrigerates Liquids with a Laser for the First Time
November 23rd, 2015Via: University of Washington: The discovery could help industrial users “point cool” tiny areas with a focused point of light. Microprocessors, for instance, might someday use a laser beam to cool specific components in computer chips to prevent overheating and enable more efficient information processing. Scientists could also use a laser beam to precisely cool […]
