• Science

    Placebo Effect's Neural Activity Photographed for First Time

    By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.16.2009 6 Comments

    Medicine has increasingly looked to the placebo effect's seemingly mysterious power to make people feel better in the absence of painkillers or pharmaceutical drugs. Now researchers have used fMRI scanners to pinpoint specific cells in the spinal cord that they believe are responsible for this ability to deaden pain.

    10.19.2009 at 04:31pm - Comment by cooleo

    i am pretty sure that if you keep saying in your mind this wont work this wont work, it Probablly WONT work. now if u say over and over it will work your mind will say u feel better it work. this is all a mind game you can do the same thing with painkillers

  • Science

    Knocking out Malaria

    By Corey Binns Posted on 2.17.2009 6 Comments

    A vaccine with a 53 percent success rate doesn’t normally call for a celebration. But when that means protecting one in every two African children from a disease that kills a kid every 30 seconds, those odds start looking better. “The impact is tremendous,” says Joe Cohen, inventor of the first malaria vaccine. “We could save hundreds of thousands of kids every year.”

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    3.16.2009 at 06:06pm - Comment by cooleo

    wow this is the best ever ever ever. even if it only helps 53 percent that was a 53 percent earler we did not have. it is sickning though being a 5 year old playing and dying at the same moment just because a mosquitto bit you and you never noticed. having your red blood cells burst and your liver attacked while you go in chills and in a fever adn mom and dad have no clue i am so glad we can at least help 53 percent 53 percent is amazing

  • The Environment

    Harvesting Energy From Humans

    By SciIll Staff Posted on 9.11.2009 9 Comments

    The human body contains enormous quantities of energy. In fact, the average adult has as much energy stored in fat as a one-ton battery. That energy fuels our everyday activities, but what if those actions could in turn run the electronic devices we rely on? Today, innovators around the world are banking on our potential to do just that.

    2.8.2009 at 07:25pm - Comment by cooleo

    i love to walk and have my phone with me just in case but i always run out of battery since i walk for so long and forget to charge it. so being able to walk and have my phone not on my hip where i have the possibilty of losing it is the most wonderful idea every.now just to convince my sibling to wear it for a day and it wont die for a year.

  • The Environment

    The Amphibial Canary is Dead

    By Taylor Hengen Posted on 11.23.2008 7 Comments

    While canaries are yet to raise the red flag on pesticide exposure, new research from the University of Pittsburgh shows that "ten of the world's most popular pesticides can decimate amphibian populations when mixed together even if the concentration of the individual chemicals are within limits considered safe." 'Decimate', here, is not hyperbole.

    12.1.2008 at 06:22pm - Comment by cooleo

    why do we even need pesticides? i mean really who wants an animal or plant chock full of pesticides. personally i don't think we need pesticides all they do is make are food bigger and better while using all these chemicals wich kills animals(our food(hint hint))and our plants then soon once it kills all the animals and the plants it will kill us since we also will be full of growth hormones and pesticieds to kill bugs. why does it cost more or organic food it should cost more to buy food full of pesticides than for something that is healthy and contains no colors or anything. really just grow them naturally cause using these pesticides will one day come back to haunt us.

  • The Environment

    pH Down, Noise Up

    By Laurie J. Schmidt Posted on 10.1.2008 6 Comments

    As increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolve in the Earth's oceans, seawater is becoming warmer and more acidic. Now, a new study concludes that one result of more acidic seas is that sounds will travel farther underwater. A corresponding increase in background noise in the oceans could affect the behavior of marine mammals, a team of scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) says.

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    10.16.2008 at 06:08pm - Comment by cooleo

    well i guess the ocean is having acid reflex lets create a 2 billon dollar pepto bismal for this a long with the other 2 billon dollar things we want

  • The Environment

    A Better CO2 Scrubber

    By Molika Ashford Posted on 10.1.2008 11 Comments

    Around half of our CO2 emissions aren’t from big power plants, or even small power plants, according to researchers from the University of Calgary. They’re from diffuse sources, like car exhaust, home heating and airplanes, which can’t be easily sucked up at the source. Led by climate scientist David Keith, the Calgary group is working on technology that could soak those “diffuse emissions” right out of the air. Their system is a kind of air scrubbing tower, which takes air and reacts the CO2 out of it by exposing it, in this case, to sodium hydroxide. Then the stuff goes through a few chemical intermediaries eventually leaving separated CO2 that can be piped away, and more hydroxide to feed back into the scrubber.

    10.8.2008 at 05:30pm - Comment by cooleo

    why do we keep on building these elaborate things that cost BILLONS of dollars when we could do other things to help like recycle ya noe what all those tree huggers say may not work vey fast but hey it works reduce all that factory smoke gosh i would want my kids to grow up in an enviorment where they to not have to worry about the ice shelfs breaking come on people get some comon sense and do small little things that will add up instead of wasting our money on useless things it is just plain comon sense y is this so hard to comprhend that the earth is goin down hill and into a big hole lets wake up GLOBAL WARMING REALLY IS HAPPENING AND IS HAVING SOME REALLY BAD EFFECTS ON ANIMALS AND PLANTS ALL TOGETHER come on it is not that hard to understand this is scary to me lets save the earth

  • The Environment

    pH Down, Noise Up

    By Laurie J. Schmidt Posted on 10.1.2008 6 Comments

    As increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolve in the Earth's oceans, seawater is becoming warmer and more acidic. Now, a new study concludes that one result of more acidic seas is that sounds will travel farther underwater. A corresponding increase in background noise in the oceans could affect the behavior of marine mammals, a team of scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) says.

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    10.8.2008 at 05:14pm - Comment by cooleo

    i loved this it awsome and so helpful i will write a synopsis of it for a current events project



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