New Approaches For Treating, Preventing Skin Diseases
The health of our skin — one of the body’s first lines of defense against illness and injury — depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions of bacteria and other one-celled microbes that live on its surface. To better understand this balance, National Institutes [...]

When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain’s pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.

Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vision. Psychology Professor Frédéric Gosselin and his Université de Montréal team found the luminescence of the eyebrow and mouth region is vital in rapid gender discrimination.

Why Bacteria Are So Effective
In an article published in Science, teams from the Institut Pasteurand the University of Limoges, associated with the CNRS and Inserm, decipher for the first time the molecular mechanism that enables bacteria to acquire multi-resistance to antibiotics, and that even allows them to adapt this resistance to their environment. This discovery [...]

Using data from NASA’s THEMIS mission, a team of University of Alberta researchers has pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere, and given an advance warning of its arrival.

The Last Stand sponsored by Gears of War 2 – Part 1: Attack
Here are two videos about weapons of the future.  These videos were produced by Microsoft to go along with the release of their Gears of War 2 video game.  In part 1 of this documentary, sponsored by Gears of War 2, we speak [...]

Winter to visit every Starbucks in the world 
A software engineer from California is on a mission to visit every single Starbucks coffee shop on the planet. 
Winter, 37, has spent 12 years drinking coffee in 9,100 chain stores. He estimates he has 3,000 left.

Slime mold
This shimmering, metallic structure isn’t a new configuration of carbon nanotubes. It’s actually a slime mold, which grows on dead plants. Not only does it look alien, but it has a very alien lifecycle. Individual slime mold cells can merge into one giant cell, up to 30 meters across. (Pics)

 It is better for doctors to weigh up the benefit and risk of prescribing aspirin on an individual basis.
Healthy adults who take daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks could be doing more harm than good, warn researchers.
A major study shows that although regular use can cut the rate of non-fatal heart attacks, it can also [...]

 CO2 expected to increase
Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise 39 percent by 2030 as energy consumption surges in the developing world, notably in Asian giants China and India, the United States warned.

Improve the Efficiency of your Solar System

Looking for a way to be greener and more efficient with your solar electrical systems? Here’s a new device created to boot your PV system’s output by 10-40% from smart thinking, National Semiconductor.
For homeowners with less than ideal roofs – maybe your pitch is wrong or those panels had to be [...]

Only Remnants of the Rainforest Remain

NASA’s Earth Observatory has some amazing satellite photos of the deforestation of the Amazonian rainforest over the past 8 years. At the link, click on the years posted below the picture to see the progression.
The state of Rondônia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the [...]