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• Mysterious desert fairy circles share pattern with skin cells

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 7, 2015

  Public Release: 6-Apr-2015 “The distribution of fairy circles throughout the desert may look random, but turns out to have a pattern that very closely matches the distribution pattern of skin cells. A pattern spanning such drastically different size scales —… Read More ›

• Anesthetic gases raise Earth’s temperature (a little) while you sleep

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 7, 2015

  Public Release: 7-Apr-2015 American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON, D.C. – The gases used to knock out surgery patients are accumulating in the Earth’s atmosphere, where they make a small contribution to climate change, report scientists who have detected the compounds as… Read More ›

• New report links frequency of diet soda use to waist increases

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 6, 2015

  Public Release: 6-Apr-2015 University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. (April 6, 2015) — Those who drink diet soda thinking it will help them shed unwanted belly fat may see their waistlines expand instead…. Read More ›

• Stress and obesity: Your family can make your fat

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 6, 2015

  Public Release: 6-Apr-2015 Study examines link between chronic family stressors, adolescent obesity University of Houston Adolescent obesity is a national public health concern and, unchecked, places young people on a trajectory for a variety of health issues as they grow… Read More ›

• Common antidepressant increased coronary atherosclerosis in animal model 6-fold

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 6, 2015

  Public Release: 6-Apr-2015 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – April 6, 2015 – A commonly prescribed antidepressant caused up to a six-fold increase in atherosclerosis plaque in the coronary arteries of non-human primates, according to a study by… Read More ›

• Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is now recruiting for postdoctoral researchers

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 6, 2015

  

  Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano) Just helping Cambridge out by posting some really cool positions they have opening soon. Postdoctoral research positions at CSER We are delighted to announce that the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has had… Read More ›

• The Darker Bioweapons of the future

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 5, 2015

  

  Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano) Archived Unclassified 3 November 2003 A panel of life science experts convened for the Strategic Assessments Group by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that advances in biotechnology, coupled with the difficulty in detecting nefarious… Read More ›

• IS blows up historic church in Syria’s Hasaka province

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 5, 2015

    English.news.cn   2015-04-05 21:47:39 DAMASCUS, April 5 (Xinhua) — The Islamic State (IS) militant group blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasaka, as the Christian minority in Syria is observing the Easter holiday, state-run news agency… Read More ›

• Germany Generously Offers To Freeze The Bank Accounts Of Wealthy Greeks

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 4, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Sunday, 05 April 2015 Back in 2013, when one cuts through the rhetoric and posturing, what the Cyprus depositor bail-in and subsequent capital controls were all about, was an attempt to confiscate deposits of ultra-wealthy Russian billionaires held the banks… Read More ›

• Alarm bells ring as Russian ships seen at old Arctic NATO base

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 4, 2015

    Norway’s jagged Arctic coastline has regained its strategic importance since tensions between Russia and NATO members have spiked to levels not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union. ― AFP picOSLO, April 3 — Russian ships docked at… Read More ›

• Drones to be used to disperse mobs in Lucknow

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 3, 2015

    IndiaToday.in  New Delhi, April 3, 2015 | UPDATED 12:28 IST The Lucknow Police is planning to use drones to keep an eye on the city. These little unmanned mini-choppers are already in use in various sensitive parts of Uttar… Read More ›

• Pakistan To Buy 8 Submarines From China

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 3, 2015

    By Usman Ansari9:09 a.m. EDT April 3, 2015 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is renewing efforts to modernize its submarine arm with eight submarines from China as well as a search for surplus European submarines. Navy and Defence Ministry officials revealed… Read More ›

• Science and medicine have a ‘publication pollution’ problem

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 3-Apr-2015 Dr. Arthur Caplan warns that plagiarism, fraud and predatory publishing is ‘corroding the reliability of research’ NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY) April 3, 2015 – The scientific community… Read More ›

• JPMorgan, AIG Bailout Records Remain Secret

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 3, 2015

    By KEVIN LESSMILLER       (CN) – Federal Reserve memos and spreadsheets regarding bailout loans are not subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge ruled.     The Federal Reserve made two emergency loans to Bear Stearns… Read More ›

• CBS This morning inaccurate segment on Fish Oil

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 3, 2015

  

    Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) I may respond officially to the piece below, that aired this morning. The information CBS supplied was inaccurate to the point where it negatively can impact many lives, therefore it needs clarification. I… Read More ›

• Facial recognition system sends warning emails to families of pachinko addicts

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

    By Casey Baseel, RocketNews24 NATIONAL APR. 03, 2015 – 06:45AM JST ( 7 ) TOKYO — For a country that doesn’t have any businesses officially classified as “casinos,” Japan has a ton of places to gamble. By far the… Read More ›

• Feds seize bank accounts without notice, without a cause certain, and without explanations

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

  Feds Seize $17 Million, but Why? By MIKE HEUER       LOS ANGELES (CN) – The federal government seized more than $17 million in bank accounts without explanation, threatening the very existence of Encino-based Sky Atlantic Capital, the company claims in… Read More ›

• Greece bankrupt next week, creditors are told

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

  Greece bankrupt next week, creditors are told Mehreen Khan Athens PUBLISHED03/04/2015 | 02:30 Greece will go bankrupt within a week, government officials have told their creditors, as the country’s bailout negotiations push the cash-starved government to the wire. A Greek… Read More ›

• Russia issues nuclear threat over Crimea and Baltic States

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

    By Umberto Bacchi April 2, 2015 08:52 BST Putin’s Russia has threatened the US with a nuclear showdown over Crimea and the Baltic states(Reuters) Russia has threatened to use nuclear force against the United States and its Nato allies… Read More ›

• Saudi Arabia damages Russian consulate in Yemen

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

  Russian Consulate in Aden Damaged Amid Coalition Strikes 01:24 02.04.2015(updated 02:20 02.04.2015) Get short URL Airstrikes conducted by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition against Houthi rebels in Yemen damaged the Russian Consulate in Aden. MANAMA (Sputnik) – The Consulate General of… Read More ›

• Mystery radio bursts from outside solar system follow Mathematical pattern

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 2, 2015

  Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message? BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern…. Read More ›

• Dow Chemical, Shell Oil and others polluted the public water system with carcinogenic trichloropropane for decades, a Kern County community services district claims in court.

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 1, 2015

  Water District Sees Carcinogens at the Tap By MARIA DINZEO  SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Dow Chemical, Shell Oil and others polluted the public water system with carcinogenic trichloropropane for decades, a Kern County community services district claims in court.     The… Read More ›

• Number of childhood cancer survivors increasing, most have morbidities

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Apr-2015 American Association for Cancer Research Bottom Line: The prevalence of childhood cancer survivors is estimated to have increased, and the majority of those who have survived five or more years beyond diagnosis may have at least one… Read More ›

• Sexual dysfunction inadequately reported in hair loss drug trials

  By Ralph Turchiano on April 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Apr-2015 Male baldness clinical trials did not adequately report sexual dysfunction, which may persist Northwestern University First meta-analysis to look at quality of safety reporting in published reports of clinical trials of the drug finasteride for male pattern… Read More ›

• Khamenei sends Iranian navy to Bab el-Mandeb Straits. Iran arms store for Hamas bombed in Libya

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 31, 2015

  DEBKAfile  Exclusive Report March 31, 2015, 10:36 PM (IDT) Control of the Red Sea Bab el-Mandeb Straits passed Tuesday, March 31 to pro-Iranian Yemeni forces when the Yemeni Army’s 117th Brigade loyal to the former Yemeni President Ali Saleh handed… Read More ›

• A powerful natural product discovered with wide-ranging antifungal, antibacterial, anti-malaria and anti-cancer effects.

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 31, 2015

  Public Release: 31-Mar-2015 Scientists reveal unique mechanism of natural product with powerful antimicrobial action Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL, March 31, 2015 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have uncovered the unique mechanism of… Read More ›

• Exercise largely absent from US medical school curriculum, study shows

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 31, 2015

  Public Release: 31-Mar-2015 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Exercise may play a critical role in maintaining good health, but fewer than half of the physicians trained in the United States in 2013 received formal education or training on the… Read More ›

• 1,000-year-old onion and garlic remedy kills antibiotic-resistant bugs, more effective than modern antibiotics

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 30, 2015

  The simple salve is more effective than modern antibiotics. FIONA MACDONALD 31 MAR 2015 A 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon ‘eye salve’ made from onion, garlic, wine and part of a cow’s stomach has been shown to wipe out 90 percent of antibiotic-resistantStaphylococcus… Read More ›

• Russian analyst urges nuclear attack on Yellowstone National Park and San Andreas fault line

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 30, 2015

    Date  March 31, 2015 – 12:36PM  Su-Lin Tan A Russian geopolitical analyst says the best way to attack the United States is to detonate nuclear weapons to trigger a supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park or along the San Andreas… Read More ›

• Eating fruits and vegetables with high pesticide residues linked with poor semen quality

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 30, 2015

  PUBLIC RELEASE: 30-MAR-2015 HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Boston, MA – Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues–such as strawberries, spinach, and peppers–had lower sperm count and a lower percentage of normal sperm than those… Read More ›

• Saudi Arabia Could Buy the Bomb

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 28, 2015

    Experts fear the first country to go nuclear after a deal won’t be Iran, but Saudi Arabia. By Gedalyah Reback First Publish: 3/25/2015, 6:42 AM Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s most explicit warning of the dangers of a “bad deal”… Read More ›

• NATO Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Bombers Amid Presence Of US Military Convoy In Lithuania

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 28, 2015

    By Reissa Su on March 29 2015 1:25 AM NATO forces have intercepted Russian warplanes flying at supersonic speeds and transponders off over the Baltic Sea. A United States military Stryker convoy was making its way to Poland from… Read More ›

• Conspiracy Anyone? Hillary Deletes Benghazi Emails After House Request

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 28, 2015

    © REUTERS/ Mike Segar 18:44 28.03.2015(updated 19:59 28.03.2015) Get short URL 54720 Hillary Clinton has reacted to a House Select Committee request to hand over the private servers she used to maintain correspondence on matters of official State Department… Read More ›

• How a Serbian Colonel With Ancient Missiles Shot Down an F117

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 27, 2015

  Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) Offers a Disturbing yet interesting historical perspective that should not be ignored. Friday, 27 March 2015 Precisely on this day, in 1999 a Serbian air force commander manning a battery system successfully shot down… Read More ›

• Yemen: Egyptian Navy Chases Iranian Warships to Retreat from Port of Aden : Iran Threatens Saudi Arabia

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 27, 2015

   3/26/2015 Senior editor of Saudi online paper Arab News, Siraj Wahab, has just tweeted that Egyptian ships forced Iranian retreat from Bab Al-Mandab strait near the Port of Aden. A statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated that Egypt… Read More ›

• Chikungunya virus may be coming to a city near you — learn the facts

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Mar-2015 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has been the subject of increasing attention as it spreads throughout South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. This painful and potentially debilitating disease is… Read More ›

• Antibiotic effectiveness imperiled as Antibiotic consumption in livestock worldwide could rise by 67 percent between 2010 and 2030

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Mar-2015 Antibiotic effectiveness imperiled as use in livestock expected to increase Princeton University Caption Princeton University-led research found that antibiotic consumption in livestock worldwide could rise by 67 percent between 2010 and 2030, and possibly endanger the effectiveness… Read More ›

• French President Francois Hollande says memory card from second black box is missing

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 26, 2015

  Editors Note: (Ralph Turchiano) Requested article in regards to the memory card of flight box 2. It may have been found by now, still missing, or destroyed. “Confusion surrounded the fate of the second black box. French President Francois Hollande… Read More ›

• Iran-led forces are worsted in Tikrit in Tehran’s first battlefield encounter with ISIS

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015

  DEBKAfile Special Report March 25, 2015, 11:55 AM (IDT The offensive launched by a mixed force of the Iraqi army (10,000 troops) and Iranian-led Shiite militias (20,000) to capture Tikrit from the Islamic State has been thrown back, upsetting rosy… Read More ›

• NATO Chief: Cyber Can Trigger Article 5 ( military response from the entire alliance )

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015

    By Paul McLeary2:43 p.m. EDT March 25, 2015 (Photo: DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — NATO leaders on Wednesday reiterated the alliance’s stance on treating cyber attacks against a member as an Article 5 issue, which would potentially draw a… Read More ›

• Obama Snubs NATO Chief In Face Of Rising Russian Threat

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015

  06:59 PM ET NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg came calling, but the president couldn’t find the time to meet with him.  Defense Obligations: Despite Russian submarine activity that’s up a reported 50% and a rising cruise-missile threat, President Obama can’t… Read More ›

• Saudi Arabia Launches Military Operations Against Houthi Targets in Yemen

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015

    © Sputnik/ Faisal Al Shabibi 02:45 26.03.2015(updated 05:47 26.03.2015) Get short URL 222437 Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies launched a military operation involving air strikes in Yemen against Houthi fighters, the Saudi envoy to Washington said on… Read More ›

• Mothers Hepatitis B infection may give infants a better survival advantage to counteract bacterial infection during early life.

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015 • ( 2 )

  Public Release: 25-Mar-2015 HBV exposure matures infants’ immune systems Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore IMAGE: This is the hepatitis B virus surface antigen in cord blood cells from HBV positive mothers. Credit: Michelle Hong / Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore… Read More ›

• Education may not improve our life chances of happiness

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 25-Mar-2015 University of Warwick Getting a good education may not improve your life chances of happiness, according to new mental health research from the University of Warwick. In a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry,… Read More ›

• Common bacteria on verge of becoming antibiotic-resistant superbugs

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 25, 2015

  Public Release: 25-Mar-2015 Washington University School of Medicine Bacteria that cause many hospital-associated infections are ready to quickly share genes that allow them to resist powerful antibiotics. The illustration, based on electron micrographs and created by the Centers for Disease… Read More ›

• Child with autism improves with antibiotic; prompts new investigations into autism

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 Surprising observation leads parent to collaboration with researchers to organize first scientific conference and special issue of scientific journal on the role of gut bacteria in autism N of One: Autism Research Foundation Dallas, TX (March 24,… Read More ›

• Einstein wrong on quantum entanglement

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 Quantum experiment verifies Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ Griffith University, University of Tokyo homodyne measurements show what Einstein did not believe to be real: the non-local collapse of a particle’s wave function Griffith University IMAGE: This… Read More ›

• Leaders and their followers tick in sync

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 24, 2015

  Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 Leaders of a group synchronize their brain activity with that of their followers during communication Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Great leaders are often good communicators. In the process of communication, the relationship between leaders and their followers develops spontaneously according… Read More ›

• Tiny bio-robot is a germ suited-up with graphene quantum dots

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 24, 2015

  Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 University of Illinois at Chicago Caption Graphene quantum dots deposited on a sporating bacteria produces a graphene coated spore. Upon attachment of electrodes across the cell, a bio-electronic device is produced that is highly sensitive to humidity…. Read More ›

• Herbicides raise resistance to medical antibiotics: study

  By Ralph Turchiano on March 24, 2015

    English.news.cn   2015-03-24 16:15:26 WELLINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) — Commonly used herbicides can increase bacteria resistance to antibiotics, according to a New Zealand-led study out on Tuesday. Herbicides, used to kill plants, could be tested for killing bacteria, but they… Read More ›

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