DUBLIN, IRELAND — Following the scientific validation of the technology presently under way by the academic jury, Steorn will be making its intellectual property available concurrently via the Internet to facilitate rapid development. Steorn, the Irish technology development company, has announced that its free energy technology will be made widely available to the development community immediately after completion of the independent scientific validation process that is currently underway. Under the terms of a modified general purpose license and for a nominal fee, Steorn’s intellectual property will be made available concurrently to all interested parties, from individual enthusiasts to larger research organizations. Steorn is taking this bold move to accelerate the deployment and acceptance of its technology for both humanitarian and commercial products. Steorn’s technology is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy. The technology can be applied to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars. Steorn placed an advertisement in The Economist in August 2006 to attract the attention of the world’s leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics. It has now completed the selection of its jury of scientists […]
WASHINGTON — Scientists said Sunday that they have used genetic engineering techniques to produce the first cattle that may be biologically incapable of getting mad cow disease. The animals, which lack a gene that is crucial to the disease’s progression, were not designed for use as food. They were created so that human pharmaceuticals can be made in their blood without the danger that those products might get contaminated with the infectious agent that causes mad cow. That agent, a protein known as a prion, can cause a fatal human ailment, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, if it gets into the body. More generally, scientists said, the animals will facilitate studies of prions, which are among the strangest of all known infectious agents because they do not contain any genetic material. Prions also cause scrapie in sheep and fatal wasting diseases in elk and minks. In the future, experts said, similar techniques might be used to engineer animals with more nutritious meats - though the Food and Drug Administration has said it will require engineered food animals to pass tests far more stringent than those it recently deemed adequate for clones. ‘This is a seminal research paper,’ […]
Men who take a low dose of aspirin to protect against heart disease may also reduce the risk of adult-onset asthma. A study of more than 22,000 doctors showed that a low dose of aspirin every other day cuts the risks of asthma by 22 per cent. The findings come from the 1980s Physicians’ Health Study in the US, which was designed to assess the effectiveness of aspirin in cutting heart attacks. It was ended after less than five years because it had clearly shown the benefit, in the form of a 44 per cent reduction in first heart attacks. The data was re-analysed by a team at the Division of Ageing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON — A 40,000-year-old skull found in a Romanian cave shows traits of both modern humans and Neanderthals and might prove the two interbred, researchers reported on Monday. If the findings are confirmed, the skull would represent the oldest modern human remains yet found in Europe. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will add to the debate over whether modern Homo sapiens simply killed off their Neanderthal cousins, or had some intimate interactions with them first. DNA samples taken from Neanderthal bones suggest there was no mixing, or at least that any Neanderthal genetic contribution did not make it to the modern DNA pool. But Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis has in the past found bones that he believes show both modern human and Neanderthal traits, and now he and colleagues have found a skull. The skull, probably that of a teenager, has been dated to 40,000 years ago and shows many modern traits. But it also is a little flatter than most modern Homo sapiens, and exceptionally large upper molars more associated with Neanderthals. ‘Such differences raise important questions about the evolutionary history of […]
Guns are used to kill two out of every three homicide victims in the United States, and new research shows that easy-access guns in the home make a difference. Homicide rates are highest in states where more households have guns, the national survey concludes. The finding held even after taking into account socioeconomic status and gender. The Top 5 States with with the most homes that have guns in them: Wyoming 59.7% Alaska 57.8% Montana 57.7% South Dakota 56.6% West Virginia 55.4% Source: BRFSS Survey Results 2001 for Nationwide Firearms ‘Our findings suggest that in the United States, household firearms may be an important source of guns used to kill children, women and men, both on the street and in their homes,’ said lead researcher Matthew Miller of the Harvard School of Public Health. Gun states To reach the findings that were released today, Miller and his colleagues examined survey data of household firearm ownership collected via a telephone survey of more than 200,000 respondents from all 50 states. The survey is part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. They […]
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