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HowStuffWorks "Can you fight allergies with local honey?"

Fighting allergies with honey is a tasty cure for sniffles and watery eyes, but does it work? Investigate how honey could fight allergies.

Art - Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy - NYTimes.com

Over the past 15 years public sculpture has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.

Antibody Engineering Cuts the Collateral Damage of Cancer Drugs | Wired Science from Wired.com

Killing cancer cells, while leaving normal tissue unscathed, is almost impossible. Nanotechnology may do the trick, but big pharmaceutical companies are far from embracing that strategy. In the meantime, highly-engineered

Research aims to put tongues in control of devices

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.

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How Fast Can Humans Go? - TIME

Bolt annihilated two world speed records at these Olympic Games. Can he go faster? Can anyone?

Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims - Security- msnbc.com

Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

Science News / Seeing In Four Dimensions

Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public

There Are No Points for Style in the Marathon - NYTimes.com

In Sunday’s men’s marathon , there will be no way to tell by looking at a runner whether he will win, place or come in last in a race.

Medieval Churches: Solar-Powered Nanotech Pioneers : CleanTechnica

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Indonesia's 'Tree Man' goes home after wart surgery

PhysOrg.com: An Indonesian villager dubbed 'Tree Man' for massive bark-like warts on his body returned home Monday after doctors removed six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of the growths.

Future for clean energy lies in 'big bang' of evolution

PhysOrg.com: Amid mounting agreement that future clean, 'carbon-neutral', energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria. Dramatic progress has been made over the last decade understanding the fundamental reaction of photosynthesis that evolved in cyanobacteria 3.7 billion years ago, which for the first time used water molecules as a source of electrons to transport energy derived from sunlight, while converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. The light harvesting systems gave the bacteria their blue ('cyano') colour, and paved the way for plants to evolve by 'kidnapping' bacteria to provide their photosynthetic engines, and for animals by liberating oxygen for them to breathe, by splitting water molecules. For humans now there is the tantalising possibility of tweaking the photosynthetic reactions of cyanobacteria to produce fuels we want such as hydrogen, alcohols or even hydrocarbons, rather than carbohydrates.

Lebbeus Woods Remains an Architect Unbounded by the Status Quo - NYTimes.com

These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods, the irreverent architect whose dark and moody renderings made him a cult figure among students and academics.

Q and A - Is It True That “The Hotter the Night, the Louder the Crickets? - Question - NYTimes.com

Is it true that “the hotter the night, the louder the crickets?”

Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It | Listening Post from Wired.com
Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data

Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema's Ultrahigh-Res Camera

Read about the latest Entertainment News on Wired.com, including art, technology, films, animation, music, web video, tv, podcasts, and blogs.

How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World

See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com

Aussie has answer to save Earth from asteroid attack | The Register

Global Update - Virus That Infects Mosquitoes Could Lead to Weapon Against Disease - NYTimes.com

A new virus that infects the world’s most dangerous mosquito could one day be manipulated to kill it or prevent it from transmitting malaria.

Observatory - In Salmonella Attack, Taking One for the Team - NYTimes.com

New research on salmonella illustrate how even simple organisms appear to cooperate for the greater good of their species.