An investigational combination of drugs already approved to treat obesity, migraine and epilepsy produced up to a 10 percent weight loss in obese individuals participating in a one-year clinical trial, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center Appearing online in The Lancet, the study found that treatment with the controlled-release combination therapy consisting of …
Researchers, led by Professor David R. Liu, say that their approach — dubbed “phage-assisted continuous evolution,” or PACE — is roughly 100 times faster than conventional laboratory evolution, and far less labor-intensive for scientists. Scientists at Harvard University have harnessed the prowess of fast-replicating bacterial viruses, also known as phages, to accelerate the evolution of …
Slate – If you’ve got an Android phone, try this: Hit the microphone icon on the home screen, then ask, “How many angstroms in a mile?” Use your normal speaking voice—don’t speak slowly or strain to over-pronounce “angstrom.” So long as you have a good Internet connection, the phone shouldn’t take more than a second …
The effusive source emits molecules that are velocity-selected by the three delimiters S1, S2 and S3. The KDTL interferometer is composed of two SiNx gratings G1 and G3, as well as the standing light wave G2. The optical dipole force grating imprints a phase modulation ϕ(x)∝αopt·P/(v·wy) onto the matter wave. Here αopt is the optical …
There are some people who are saying that the Hiroshima long term radiation study has flaws in it They referred to a 16 pager that claims issues with the study. The counter references are mostly not in any peer reviewed journals. So if the claim of improper cohorts has some validity there is still the …
India gender imbalance is heading to 110 boys to 100 girls The news from India’s 2011 census is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is stabilising. But there is one grim exception. In 2011 India counted only 914 girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys. Parents choose …
The vertical axis shows the number of events – where each event is the production of a W boson and a pair of particle jets – in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. The horizontal axis shows the mass of the pair of jets. Physicists expected the number of events to fall off as the mass …
Model maker: Neri Oxman works on “Cartesian Wax: Prototype for a Responsive Skin,” a model that is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Credit: Mikey Siegel Neri Oxman, an architect and a professor at MIT’s Media Lab, intends to print buildings instead—essentially using concrete, polymers, and …
SIM-LEI demonstrated its ability for 333km range per charge. The body, weighing 1650kg, measures 4700mm x 1600mm x 1550mm, is “as long as a medium-size sedan, and as wide as a compact car,” according to SIM-Drive. It seats four people. Its fastest speed is 150Km/h. It takes 4.8 seconds to accelerate from zero to 100km/h, …
The Union of Concerned Scientists position on Nuclear Power and Global warming has the following problems To address global warming, we need a profound transformation of the ways in which we generate and consume energy. The urgency of this situation demands that we be willing to consider all possible options for coping with climate change. …
Mercury from Orbit. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / Carnegie Institution of Washington Carnival of Space 191 is up at the Planetary Society blog Chris Dann from WeirdWarp shows us some of MESSENGER’s first photos of Mercury from orbit and explains why we’re bothering to capture them. Astroengine looks at new research that life in solar …