Just skip the messy chemical stuff. The device created by University of Miami Physicist Stewart E. Barnes, of the College of Arts and Sciences and his collaborators can store energy in magnets rather than through chemical reactions. Like a winding up toy car, the spin battery is "wound up" by applyi...

by Dr. Mercola Nearly everyone knows that white flour is not healthy for you, but most people don’t know that when white flour is bleached, it can actually be FAR worse for you. It’s generally understood that refining food destroys nutrients. With the most nutritious part of the grain removed, w...

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My college friend Bruce Weber, a reporter for the New York Times, is the author of " As They See `Em -- A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires " being published this month by Scribner.  The following is a lightly edited transcript of our recent e-mail exchange: EZ:  Take me...

With his wife being accused of exploiting her son's drug problem in her new book, Jonathan Myerson speaks out for the �rst time to reveal why the story had to be told There have been so many Worst Moments. There was the morning we watched our son shamble down the street, spare T-shirt and shoes st...

Creating networks of tiny blood vessels is a major hurdle in tissue engineering. Fortunately, many groups are working away on a variety of strategies to address this issue. From Chemical Science: "Candy floss (also known as cotton candy) has been used by US scientists to create a web of microscopic ...

There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...

THE EVIDENCE IS THAT THE OCEAN IS COOLING, NOT WARMING An email below from Craig Loehle [Craigloehl@aol.com] Hansen's theory that CO2 forcing is hiding in the oceans can't be true if the oceans are cooling, as my latest paper shows (Energy & Environment Vol. 20, No. 1&2, 2009). Excerpt below: Coolin...

Keith R. Solomon, Theo C.M. Brock, Dick De Zwart, Scott D. Dyer, Leo Posthuma, Sean Richards, Hans Sanderson, Paul Sibley "Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals" CRC | 2008-05-23 | ISBN: 1420073907 | 408 pages | PDF | 6 MB A wide-ranging compilation of tech...

Harvard Scientists' Discovery Opens Door to Synthetic Life The technology can be used to program cells to make virtually any protein, even some that donâ™t exist in nature, the scientists said. That may allow production of helpful new drugs, chemicals and organisms, including living bacteria. It ...