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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. ...

  • New blood-donation rules put damage control ahead of sound science

    Video: Negative stigma still haunts HIV/AIDS patients Sublimely ridiculous would be more accurate.This decision is not going to increase blood donations and it's not going to make the blood system any safer (or less safe). So what's the point?It's not so much a step in the right direction as it is shuffling forward reluctantly for damage-control purposes. Nor is it a decision ...

  • After science bomb student wants back

    LAKELAND, Fla. - Standing hand-in-hand with her twin sister, Kiera Wilmot took to the podium. "I made the mistake of performing my experiment outside of the classroom, however, that is the only mistake I believe I made," she said. Wilmot, 16, generated global attention after she was arrested on two felony charges for what her family calls "a science project gone wrong." ...

  • Dallas reportedly will shop pick save cap space

    Could Dirk Nowitzki and Chris Paul be the next duo in the West? The Mavs will trade their 13th pick to make it happen. (Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty Images) The NBA Draft is still more than a month away and free agency doesn’t begin until July, but the Dallas Mavericks are wasting no time in the offseason to return to title contention next year with an aging leader in Dirk Nowitzki, who turns ...

  • NASA Unveils Space Apps Contest Champions

    An interplanetary weather app, a spot-the-space-station tool, and a Mars greenhouse concept are among the winners of the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest solicited mobile apps and technologies that aid space exploration and enrich life here on Earth. Today (May 22), a panel of judges from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and partners announced the winners of the ...


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The Amityville Horror (2005) [Blu-Ray]

The Amityville Horror (2005) [Blu-Ray]

The influence of J-horror is all over Andrew Douglas highly stylized remake of The Amityville Horror, but in typical American-filmmaking-borrowing-from-foreign-filmmaking fashion, he wants to have it both ways. The films best moments are the ones that tap into terrors ... ...

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  • Massive Galactic Merger Scoped By Several Space Observatories | Time-Lapsed Simulation

    The Herschel Space Observatory captured imagery of colliding galaxies, called HXMM01 (~ 11 billion light-years from Earth and when our universe was about 3 billion years old.) A merger of galaxies is ...

  • Mile End green space gets protected status

    Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough is turning an abandoned rail yard into a new protected green space that will be managed by a citizens' group that for years had lobbied for the land to be kept green.The land -- about the size of two soccer fields -- is in the Mile End neighbourhood, south of the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks between Henri-Julien and de Gasp Aves.Dubbed the Champ ...

  • Atomic weights revision changes periodic table

    A magnificent period piece from mid-19th-century Russia has just received a bit of a renovation. Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to their atomic ...

  • Stephen Harper says sorry for Senate scandal

    NDP wants RCMP to probe Senate expense scandal LIMA, Peru - Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday and said he was in the dark when his chief of staff gave $90,000 to Sen. Mike Duffy - a gift opposition MPs want investigated by the RCMP and probed by Parliament. "I'm very sorry that this has occurred," Harper said from Lima where he was on a trade mission. ...

  • Pizza printout NASA funds effort to make space meals on 3-D printer

    NASA won't be printing out pizzas on Mars anytime soon, but the space agency is paying out $125,000 to study the use of 3-D printing technology for food preparation in space."We will be building the components for a prototype" over the grant's six-month period, David Irwin, principal investigator for the project at ...

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