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  • Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria

    In a surprising discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. TB is caused by infection with the bacterium M. ...

  • Science and Technology Should Contribute More to Reducing Disaster Risk Say Experts

    GENEVA, 22 May (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) ‑ Experts in disaster risk reduction today urged that science and technology be applied more effectively to disaster management policy and ...

  • The Mad Science of the National Debt

    W elcome back to the dumb season. It's debt-ceiling time again. We've been at this two years now. It was back in 2011 when the Republican Party, seized by anti-government furor, first locked on the lifting of the federal debt ceiling – an utterly routine governmental mechanism that allows the Treasury to borrow to pay for spending already approved by the entire Congress, ...

  • Humans Leave Significant Carbon Footprint With Running Shoes

    While it is nearly impossible for a running shoe not to leave a footprint, new research suggests that a typical pair of running shoes could leave behind a ...

  • Pizza printouts NASA funds project to make space meals with 3-D printer

    In a video made for Tested.com, chef Traci Des Jardins helps Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spice up his meals on the International Space Station. Avoiding food boredom is one of the issues facing long-term spacefliers. Will 3-D-printed pizzas ...

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Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty might best be seen as Jim Carrey atoning for what some perceived to be his sin of trying to be a serious actor in recent years. His emoting as a serious actor worked well enough in Peter Weirs The Truman Show (1998), which allowed Carrey to expand his range without fully sacrificing all of the comedy that his fans so fervently adore. In that film, he morphed quite sea ... ...

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  • Cal State Could Offer Online Science Labs

    California State University is moving aggressively to offer web-based science labs, a systemwide virtual campus and online advising as remedies for "bottlenecks" that impede student progress and graduation rates, officials said Tuesday. Some of these efforts will be ready to roll out this fall. The detailed strategies were presented in a meeting of the Cal State Board of Trustees ...

  • Letters Engineering can be as inspiring as space

    To boldly go , G2, 21 May) has the potential to inspire young people and boost our economy. Space travel captures the imagination of budding young inventors and engineers - it is the stuff of childhood dreams. But there are other British industries at the forefront of technology that can inspire and propel young people towards careers in engineering and science. Without changing the way we ...

  • Suicidal behaviour is a disease psychiatrists argue

    climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood ...

  • Kiwis booked on worlds first commercial space flight

    A number of Kiwis have already stumped up a total of more than $1.8 million to book a place on the world's first commercial space flight. Virgin Galactic hopes to be taking commercial flights outside of the earth's atmosphere by 2014. Eight New Zealanders have signed up with House of Travel already. Expert agent Stephen Parsons has visited the operating port of the ...

  • Braggs Pie Factory Transforms Its Gallery Space and Brings Back the Pie

    At long last, there's pie again at Bragg's Pie Factory. A new vegan cafe has opened in the very spot out of which the Bragg family originally sold cakes and pies in the '40s and ...

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