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Consumer Reports Issues List of Potentially Dangerous Supplements
Despite known hazards, many potentially dangerous dietary supplements are readily available for purchase in stores and on the Internet, according to a new report in the May issue of Consumer Reports. The magazine released yesterday its "dirty dozen" list of dietary supplements that it says are too dangerous to be on the market. The list includes yohimbe, bitter orange, chaparral, and andro to name a few. But researchers say the supplements are sold under many names, which makes it hard for consumers to know what they are getting...... |
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The Independent: After the bombs dropped: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Newly Found Fault Caused Haiti Quake
The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti in January was unleashed by a previously undetected fault line - not the well-known one scientists initially blamed, according to an analysis of new data. It's unclear how dangerous the new, unmapped fault might be or how its discovery changes the overall earthquake hazard risk for Haiti, said Eric Calais, a professor of geophysics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. He said the analysis shows that most, if not all, of the geologic movement that caused January's magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred along the newly uncovered fault, not the well-documented Enriquillo fault. Calais, who presented the findings this week at a scientific conference in Brazil, said they suggest Haiti's seismic zone is far more complex than scientists had anticipated. But the new fault's profile, including the possibility that it merges with the Enriquillo fault at some depth, won't be known until scientists intensively study the region..... |
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Stanford celebrates completion of world's most powerful X-ray laser
Deep under the tawny hills of Menlo Park, a new tunnel carries X-ray pulses so fast they could travel from California to New York in a less than one second. It holds a pencil-thin steel tube so straight that construction crews had to compensate for the curvature of the earth. To prevent any obstruction, even air has been sucked out of it. And its alignment is so critical that it must be kept at constant temperature so it never shrinks or swells, even imperceptibly. This is Stanford's new Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first and most powerful X-ray laser. The $420 million marvel officially opened for business on Monday in festivities featuring Secretary of Energy Steven Chu; Stanford President John Hennessy; Democratic Reps. Mike Honda and Zoe Lofgren, both of San Jose; and throngs of well-wishers. Its bright and ultrafast X-ray pulses -- millions of times brighter than medical X-rays -- are used much like flashes from a high-speed strobe light. They enable scientists to take stop-motion pictures of atoms and molecules in motion, shedding insight on the fundamental processes of chemistry, technology and life itself......... |
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From whippet-fast commuter rides to sturdy kings of the mountain, Simon Usborne presents the experts’ guide to getting around on two wheels
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Two students at Rowan University, Zachary Grady and Joe Ridgeway, have constructed a robotic arm that can solve the Rubik’s Cube in 15 seconds. As The New Scientist explains the “system uses a camera to capture how the cube is scrambled and sends the images to a computer. It determines the pattern on each face and algorithms are used to solve the cube. The solution is then translated to the arm’s pneumatics and motors
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Scientists Gain Insights into How to Erase Pathological Fear
Scientists close in on the process that records -- and erases -- memories of terror Frustrated with these grim facts, scientists have been looking for biologically based therapies that may some day help troubled minds forget debilitating fears The most recent of these studies..... |
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Cassidy: Computer History Museum re-opening a Silicon Valley milestone
The Computer History Museum is reopening this week after an ambitious $19 million makeover with an exhibit called, fittingly enough, "Revolution." Fitting because it refers to the stunning changes in computing and the stunning changes that computing has caused over the past 2,000 years (yes, that long!). But "Revolution" could just as easily apply to the impressive and elegant expansion of the Mountain View museum, which literally started in a closet back East before moving to its logical home, Silicon Valley. |
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What the world needs now
We remember Gandhi as an opponent of colonialism and a campaigner for social justice. But he also pioneered everything from environmentalism to fair trade. Sixty years after his death, here's what Gandhi still has to teach us In the early 1890s, Mahatma Gandhi worked as a lawyer in South Africa. One day, while travelling in a first-class train compartment on business, he was ordered to move to third class, which was designated for non-whites. Gandhi refused, producing his valid first-class ticket as evidence of his right to stay. At the next stop, he was thrown off the train. This experience transformed the shy, apolitical young lawyer into the bold, fearless activist whose campaign for equality and human rights was brought to an end by an assassin�s bullet 60 years ago. Gandhi was undoubtedly one of the great political and spiritual figures of the 20th century.... .... |
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