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Category: Science News
This is about chronic fatigue syndrome and the association with XMRV. I apologize in advance for the provocative title, and the subsequent gratuitous references to the Nobel Prize, but there is a point to this. Take a look at this...
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Category: Humor
The people of Obama are selling jellyfish candy. Really. The photo shows a diver next to a specimen of Nomura's jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. These creatures occasionally swarm off the coast of Japan, where they are a nuisance. Some creative souls...
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Category: Energy
This method, if it pans out, could not only be clean, it could make the environment even cleaner. Jonathan Trent, the lead research scientist on the Spaceship Earth project at NASA Ames Research Center, has been working on a method...
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Category: Environment
In 2008, we were informed that a kind of cloud formation had been named: the mammatus formation, so-called because it resembles a breast. Sort of. Whatever. A new development is more serious. The Cloud Appreciation Society has suggested that the...
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Category: Neuroscience
On 14 January, 2008, the US FDA approved milnacipran for use in treatment of fibromyalgia. It is ( or soon will be) available in tablets of 12.5, 25, 50, and 100mg. It has been marketed as an antidepressant in Europe...
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Category: Psychiatry
Tapentadol is a drug for pain. It was approved by the US FDA for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. The FDA news release was dated 24 November 2008, although the actual approval was a few days earlier....
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Category: Public Health
No, it is not newspapers and videos that are disrupting your endocrine system (well, not that we know); rather, the topic is in the media. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that mimic the effects of hormones. Perhaps the best-known example is...
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Category: Photos of Interest
The Cassini orbiter shows us what is happening in the final frontier: This is an aurora on Saturn. It's false-color, obviously. The technique is explained on the NASA site: This image of the northern polar region of Saturn shows both...
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Category: Science News
This is an illustration of Basilosaurus, a fossil whale discovered in Egypt by Phil Gingerich and colleagues. Gingerich is the guy who taught me everything I know knew about collecting fossils. I wanted on the team that went to Egypt,...
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Category: Science News
When I was 11 or so, I read Heinlein's novel, Podkayne of Mars. I wanted to go to Mars after that. The thought never really left me. But in June of this year, I began to have my doubts. Scientists...
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