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Category Archives: Science
What’s in a Label? Why the Package Insert for Plan B is Wrong… and Why It Matters.
So why does it matter? The standard legal and medical definition of the beginning of pregnancy in the US is the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. By that definition, even if LNG EC did interfere with implantation, … Continue reading
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Culture Warriors vs. Sex for Pleasure: Why the Right Wing is Wrong When it Comes to Sex
If prescribing to dogmatic absolutes worked, then the most conservative Christian red states wouldn’t have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and porn consumption. The fallen Colorado megachurch Pastor Ted Haggard, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, … Continue reading
Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science
In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it calls a Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids, to be used by “Agriculture and Science Teachers.” The book — called Look Closer at … Continue reading
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Is It Time For the US Government To Back Fusion At NIF Over ITER? – Slashdot
“Laser beams at the National Ignition Facility have fired a record 1.875 megajoule shot into its target chamber, surpassing their design specification. The achievement is a milepost on the way to ignition — the ‘break-even’ point at which the facility … Continue reading
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DNA Nanorobot Halts Growth of Cancer Cells
DNA origami, a technique for making structures from DNA, has been used to build devices that can seek out and potentially destroy cancer cells. The nanorobots use a similar system to cells in the immune system to engage with receptors … Continue reading
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Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe : Discovery News
“So it turns out U.S. radars weren’t to blame for the unfortunate demise of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission — it was a computer programming error that doomed the probe, a government board investigating the accident has determined.” According … Continue reading
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Premium Gasoline Worth the Money!
For a while after I bought my 2000 Subaru Impreza, I recorded some mileage logs to see if using premium gasoline offered any other benefits (e.g., better fuel economy) than simply cleaner injectors (the premium fuel does have much more … Continue reading
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Sinkhole contains botnet neutralized by Microsoft and Kaspersky
Kaspersky Lab, which collaborated with Microsoft on the takedown, says 3,000 infected hosts are connecting to its sinkhole every minute. Kaspersky reverse-engineered the bot malware, cracked the botnet’s communication protocol, and then developed tools to attack its … Continue reading
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Scientists sequence Black Death bacteria DNA, admit they were wrong
The bacteria behind the Black Death has a very unusual history. Its ancestor is an unassuming soil bacterium and the current strains of Yersinia pestis still infects thousands of people annually, but no longer cause the suite of … Continue reading
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