Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:52:54 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://science.infoshop.org/images/logo.gif http://science.infoshop.org/ chuck@mutualaid.org http://science.infoshop.org/Article277.html Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls---in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power prevent a solution to the climate crisis? Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:52:54 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article276.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- It looks like chickens deserve more respect. Scientists are fleshing out the proof that today's broiler-fryer is descended from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. And, not a surprise, they confirmed a close relationship between mastodons and elephants. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:30:29 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article275.html WASHINGTON (AP) - Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:27:35 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article274.html Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:05:38 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article273.html The fact is, nuclear power has not recovered from the crisis that hit it three decades ago with the reactor fire at Browns Ferry, Alabama, in 1975 and the meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. Then came what seemed to be the coup de grâce: Chernobyl in 1986. The last nuclear power plant ordered by a US utility, the TVA's Watts Bar 1, began construction in 1973 and took twenty-three years to complete. Nuclear power has been in steady decline worldwide since 1984, with almost as many plants canceled as completed since then. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:24:51 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article272.html Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:37:59 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article271.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:44:30 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article270.html Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer! Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled across the single technology which will save us from runaway climate change! From the goodness of my heart, I offer it to you for free. No patents, no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this technology, a radical new kind of carbon capture and storage, is causing a stir among scientists. It is cheap, it is efficient and it can be deployed straight away. It is called … leaving fossil fuels in the ground. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:40 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article269.html WASHINGTON - December 5 -At a Department of Energy (DOE) hearing today, a coalition of environmental and security groups detailed their concerns over the proposed plan to transport nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, Nevada for storage. Citing serious security, environmental, and public health threats associated with shipping nuclear waste through residential areas across the United States, the groups stated that the Yucca Mountain plan has fundamental flaws and should not go forward. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:04:06 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article268.html A first ever national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages and children's birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. The survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:58:51 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article267.html Sometimes you find mass murderers in the most unlikely places. Take Rachel Carson. She was, by all accounts, a mild-mannered writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-hardly a sociopath's breeding ground. And yet, according to many in the media, Carson has more blood on her hands than Hitler. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:07:16 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article266.html WASHINGTON - Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednesday. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:15:35 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article265.html A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in the collapse of honey bee colonies across the United States, researchers reported Thursday. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:23:20 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article264.html Back in the '60s, when University of Michigan students were holding protests over civil rights and the Vietnam War, an undergraduate named Steven E. Nissen was at the center of the political dissent. Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:45:45 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article263.html CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, was raising eyebrows five months before he bungled his fact-checking segment on Michael Moore's health care documentary, "Sicko," leaving Moore and many of CNN's viewers questioning Gupta's journalistic integrity. Writing on his CNN blog on February 28, 2007, Dr. Gupta endorsed Merck's controversial and scientifically challenged vaccine for girls and young women, Gardasil, without shedding any light on the incestuous relationship he has with Merck. Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:10:43 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article262.html MADRID - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years. Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:48:53 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article261.html Ecologist Richard Levins and geneticist Richard Lewontin argue that modern science has been fully incorporated into the process of capitalism, and is subject to the same conditions as any other commodity. They discuss the implications this has for scientific research, and the influence of bourgeois ideology on the thinking of scientists. The essay is taken from their 1985 book, The Dialectical Biologist. Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:50:23 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article260.html The Congo rainforest is the life support system for millions of people in the 'green heart' of Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, 40 million people depend on the forest. Like all large intact forests, it's also crucially important for regulating the local and global climate. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:38 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article259.html ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Environmental injustice in people-of-color communities is as much or more prevalent today than 20 years ago, say researchers commissioned to conduct a follow-up to the 1987 landmark study, "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States." Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:57:54 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article258.html Milan: The headlines were catchy, the subject compelling and, in some cases, the newspapers well respected. "Cellphones linked to honeybee deaths." "To bee or not to be near mobile phones." "German study links cellphones to drop in honey bee population; Radiation said to interfere with homing ability." "Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees." Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:51:38 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article257.html The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil. Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:39:42 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article256.html The giant moray eel is normally a lone hunter in the dark. Now scientists find these eels may at times hunt in the daytime in the Red Sea, and surprisingly cooperate with another predatory fish, the grouper, which is also normally a solitary predator. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:05:10 -0800 http://science.infoshop.org/Article255.html The cost of curbing the soaring emissions of harmful gases that are blamed for causing global warming has been estimated at $1 trillion by a major study of the cost of climate change. The volume of emissions of the gases that cause global warming will double by 2050 unless rich countries agree to take significant policy steps to cut energy use, it shows. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:55:13 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article254.html Whatever one may have thought about nuclear power in the past, the rising climate change threat is such that all options for dealing with it must be examined in light of this urgency. But even then, nuclear power does not deserve the favored place that Washington is conferring on it among the options available to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:09:57 -0700 http://science.infoshop.org/Article253.html Observation. There is perhaps no more valuable tool in the world of science. Ask Darwin. He did all right for himself observing finches, didn't he? Or ask Marcel Proust. The writer everyone pretends to read said: "The true voyage of discovery lies not is seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." 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