A few tiny LEDs could help paralyzed people move their limbs again
Mice equipped with a special light-sensitive gene can experience muscle stimulation when put in close contact with nothing more than a few tiny LEDs. It’s a close match for natural muscle stimulation, and could provide a revolutionary paralysis treatment. Stanford researchers inserted into the mice a gene harvested from algae that created light-sensitive proteins throughout [...]
Read More →Sodium ions could one day let you grow a new hand
A new cocktail that allows sodium ions to pour into cells makes tadpoles grow new tails. A similar one could be used to regenerate human spinal cords and lost limbs. It’s clearly possible to grow muscle tissue, nerves, and organs. We all did it once. We should be able to do it again. For some [...]
Read More →New technology that captures "exciton" particles could replace today’s solar cells
Even the most efficient solar cell loses a lot of energy in the form of wasted heat. But the electron-like particles that photons emit as they enter the cells could be turned into electrical energy, solving the heat loss problem. When photons, the particles of light, enter solar cells, they can create a quasiparticle known [...]
Read More →Global unemployment to trigger further social unrest, UN agency forecasts
International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Protests in Spain this week. Photograph: Paul White/AP The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned of growing social unrest because it fears global employment will not now recover until 2015. This is two years later than its earlier [...]
Read More →Background Checks Required to Visit Your Kids at School
Over 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide have implemented a system requiring parents visiting their children to undergo a background check upon arrival to the school. This check is carried out by a company called Raptor, which summarizes their services as: Thousands of schools and community facilities across the country use Raptor’s V-soft visitor [...]
Read More →The Official Apology (and admission) for the Intentional Infection of Guatemalans by the U.S. Government
Following is a joint statement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on the U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study of 1946-1948: BEGIN TEXT: The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical. Although these events occurred more [...]
Read More →Dwight Was Right: Military-Industrial Complex Does Run The Government
So…it turns out President Eisenhower wasn’t making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex. That’s what you’ll conclude if you read Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War. (You can read excerpts of it here, here and here.) You thought you voted for change when you cast a ballot for Barack Obama? Um, not when [...]
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