Acrassicauda, an Iraqi Metal Band, Moves to America - NYTimes.comIn Baghdad their practice space was bombed. Now an Iraqi heavy metal band has found refuge in America.
What your mother did when she was young has an effect on your memory
A mother's life experience can affect the biology of her offspring, according to new animal research in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that a stimulating environment improved the memory of young mice with a memory-impairing genetic defect and also improved the memory ...
Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge
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Trial Begins for HIV Gene Therapy | Wired Science from Wired.com
Gene therapy that could immunize people against the most common type of HIV is ready to be tested on humans. Recruiting for the trial began Tuesday, and the first people
Taking Traffic Control Lessons — From Ants | Wired Science from Wired.com
If humans took their cues from ants, they might spend less time in traffic. When opposing streams of leafcutter ants share a narrow path, they instinctively alternate flows in the
U.K. physicist invents inexpensive, water-filled eyeglasses to help poor -- chicagotribune.com
OXFORD, England — Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.
Transport Ships Turned Into Floating Parking Garages : TreeHugger
source Selling cars, fueling cars, building garages for cars are a major part of the economy. And the factories kept turning them out long after the market for them crashed. Now it appears that not only are all the
Greener Drugs At Swedish Doctors' Fingertips : TreeHugger
Little green pills via Deco Fernandez @ flickr. Sweden has created a new database to comply with European Union legislation and to let doctors see if the drugs they are prescribing might potentially harm the environment. Many antidepressants, painkillers,
Resilient in Hard Times - The Family Business - NYTimes.com
After a few generations, memories of other downturns can inspire frugality and steadfastness.
Obama Calls for ‘Common Sense’ on Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
President Obama unveiled a salary cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive the largest amounts of bailout money.
Study suggests link between agricultural chemicals and frog decline
(PhysOrg.com) -- Around the world, amphibian populations are in decline, and scientists have not been able to figure out why. Now a study of leopard frogs in Pennsylvania has identified a possible culprit, and the ramifications are troubling, according to a Penn State ecologist.
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Ottawa puzzled by sewage radiation find - Yahoo! Canada News
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TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air : TreeHugger
How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 TalkView more presentations from jaymeattle. (tags: plants greenhouse) In case you don’t know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger’s own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing
What’s Lurking in Your Countertop? - NYTimes.com
As the popularity of granite countertops has increased, so have reports that some are emitting radiation and radon at surprisingly high levels.
Microbanks Are Getting a Cash Infusion - NYTimes.com
The effort by the World Bank and the German government highlights how even small banks in poor countries are getting caught in the financial crisis.
MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget
US university researchers have created a portable 'sixth sense' device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.
Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production
An international team led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory have translated the genetic code that explains the complex biochemical machinery making brown-rot fungi uniquely destructive ...
Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?
Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious academic journal Science. And dark coloring may also aid the survival of the species as wolf habitat ...
Man-Made Dam May Have Triggered Great China Quake | Wired Science from Wired.com
The weight of the water in a man-made reservoir may have triggered the massive earthquake that struck China in May killing more than 70,000 people. Immediately following the quake, scientists
Societal Cost of Meth Use Is Gauged in New Study - NYTimes.com
A new study said that methamphetamine abuse imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005, suggesting that the drug takes an economic toll nearly as great as heroin.
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