One-two punch knocks out aggressive breast cancer
cells

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New MIT study shows that staggered delivery of cancer drugs is far more effective than administering them at the same time.

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Can Rutaesomn decaf your body #herbal

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Red Ferret and others have been talking about a “herbal” treatment – Rutaesomn – that is supposed to deactivate any caffeine you have had and so help you sleep. Aside from the fact that the marketing says it’s “drug free”, which if it’s physiologically active it cannot be except as a matter of semantics, the [...]

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Researchers identify protein that burns calories

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Protein highlights 'ideal mechanism' for development of new therapies to fight obesity.

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Pushing Beyond Pluto

post from Centauri Dreams on 11 May 2012 09:09:54 AM. © Centauri Dreams

What would you do if you had a spacecraft pushing toward the edge of the Solar System with nothing much to do? The answer is to assign it an extended mission, as we found out with the two Voyagers and their continuing data return that is helping us[...]

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Missing boundary revealed at the edge of the
solar system

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For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun ? known as the heliosphere ? moves through space, creating three distinct boundary layers that culminate in an outermost bow shock.

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Gigapixels

post from Supernova Condensate on 11 May 2012 08:39:02 AM. © Supernova Condensate

Astronomers and photographers have a lot in common. We both collect photons, we both spend a lot of time pointing lenses at things, and we both like to have as many pixels in our images as possible. Impressively enough, camera technology has now advanced enough that we get to talk about gigapixels. Yes, gigapixels. The most impressive digital camera ever constructed is being planned for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile. And it will have 3.2 billion pixels!

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The start of a long, long dance

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A hundred million light years away, two gorgeous spiral galaxies are locked in an embrace that may end with them merging, a dance spread across a hundred thousand light years in space and a hundred million years of time.[Click to galactinate, and yeah,[...]

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NEVER TOO OLD TO DRIVE

post from Science Ain't So Bad on 11 May 2012 08:15:57 AM. © Science Ain't So Bad

WHAT WALL?

TOO OLD TO DRIVE?

Passenger: Could pick up the pace a LITTLE?

Me: Are you NUTS? This is a safe speed.

Passenger: You?re driving like you?re a hundred (instead of just 71.)

Here?s the thing. You get older, you get more cautious. Sometimes you actually OBEY the speed laws. Which means extracting some tailgaters from your rear bumper after you arrive. I?m not braggin? or nothin? but when you get older.. okay .. it?s p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e your eyesight and hearing aren?t as good. Maybe. Even your reflexes aren?t..uh.. THAT sharp.

But screw you. I drive just fine. And you ain?t gettin? MY keys!

Well.

In fact – and contrary to what you probably think – statistics favor geezers who, while doing everything wrong and forcing YOU off the road, tend to compensate for their degraded skills by not taking so many gee-whiz chances. And – yeah – after a hundred years behind the wheel, they DO recognize black ice better than a teenager does.

Wisdom, see?

Doesn?t mean geezering around in a vehicle?s perfect. The risks are real. Some older drivers are b-a-d! And I MEAN bad! Some oldsters could take you out as you?re leavinug the church with your top hat on. At the TOP of the steps.

What to do?

Senior drivers have, obviously, earned the right to a little consideration. It means a lot to be able to drive.

Independence and self respect.

For some, it doesn?t feel like a choice. They don’t have anybody in their lives to take the wheel.

HEAR THE SIREN? I DIDN?T EVEN SEE THE FLASHING LIGHTS, OFFICER

So.

The Intelligent Transport team (Newcastle University) with Dr. Amy Guo at the head, has created a duded up car. It’s a mobile lab with sensors and monitors to figure out if customized aids such as night vision systems, specialized navigation systems, adaptive speed management, and various other innovations can keep older drivers behind the wheel longer and, hence, keep them healthier and more independent overall. The work is to be presented to the Aging, Mobility and Quality of Life conference in Michigan.

For those who are too far gone for Guo?s technology, autonomous (self driving) vehicles should offer another option before long.

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Credits for the car plowing through the stone wall to Martin Addison
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