Elon Musk's mission to Mars
He's known as the real-life Tony Stark: a billionaire inventor working on electric cars, an 800mph 'Hyperloop' train system and reusable rockets. The plan, says Elon Musk, is to minimise climate change – and colonise the red planetElon Musk has flown so high, so fast, it is hard not to wonder when, and how, he will crash to earth. How could he not? Musk is so many things – inventor, entrepreneur, billionaire, space pioneer, inspiration for Iron Man's playboy superhero Tony Stark – and he has pushed the boundaries of science and business, doing what others declare impossible. At some point, surely, he will fall victim...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Rory Carroll Tags: The Guardian United States World news Mars Technology Features Interviews Elon Musk Science Space Source Type: news
Chr. Hansen Holding A/S - election of employee group representatives to the Board of Directors
Company announcement no.16/2013
An election of employee group representatives to the Board of Directors of Chr.
Hansen Holding A/S has taken place.
The result was election of Mads Bennedsen and Per Poulsen and re-election of
Svend Laulund as employee group representatives. Susanne Parfelt, Flemming
Hawthorn Jensen and Jimm Gjøe Kvist were elected as alternates.
The changes will become effective immediately after the Annual General Meeting
of Chr. Hansen Holding A/S to be held on 26 (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - June 25, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
In praise of … clouts | Editorial
It's odd that argument lingers over the May question when no one disputes clout, a word with many possible meaningsHalfway through May, and temperatures are frozen in single figures. Definitely not a moment to be casting a clout, and if you belong to the rump of opinion that thinks the May in question is the hawthorn flower, well that's not out yet either. But it's odd that argument lingers over the May question when no one disputes clout, a word with many possible meanings in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, none of them very satisfactory in the context of the old saw about casting them. Or it. Shakespeare put clouts in his...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 15, 2013 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Linguistics Language Editorials Comment is free Source Type: news
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Could Cure Human Cancers With No Side Effects
Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators' Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne. Hawthorne's team has developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission in mice. This innovative treatment produced none of the harmful side-effects of conventional chemo and radiation cancer therapies... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Breakthrough cancer-killing treatment has no side-effects
(University of Missouri-Columbia) The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators' Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne. Hawthorne's team has developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission in mice. This innovative treatment produced none of the harmful side-effects of conventional chemo and radiation cancer therapies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with space station to deliver cargo
Private company's second delivery brings a load of science projects and a bushel of fruit to astronauts on the space stationA SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule overcame a potentially mission-ending technical problem to make a belated but welcome arrival at the International Space Station on Sunday.Astronauts aboard the outpost used the station's robotic arm to pluck the capsule from orbit at 5.31am ET/10.31 GMT as the ships sailed 250 miles (400 km) over northern Ukraine.Flight controllers at Nasa's mission control in Houston then stepped in to drive the capsule to its berthing port on the station's Harmony connecting node. Dock...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2013 Category: Science Tags: United States Nasa Florida World news guardian.co.uk International Space Station California The space shuttle Elon Musk Science Source Type: news
Pernix Therapeutics Receives FDA Approval for Vituz
THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 28, 2013 - Pernix
Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical
company, today announced that its subsidiary, Hawthorn
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has received U.S. Food and Drug
Administration... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - February 28, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Country diary: Langstone, Hampshire: Starlings wolf-whistle from the trees as pigeons flirt below
Langstone, Hampshire: A pair of woodpigeons nestle together, preening each other before clasping bills in a prolonged kissBeside the Langbrook stream the hawthorn is in bud. Clumps of pure white snowdrops quake in the breeze and whorls of wild arums unfurl glossy arrow-shaped leaves. Crinkled green rosettes of primrose push up through the wizened leaves that litter the bank. The cheery lemon and egg-yolk flowers are beginning to open – a promise of spring.Plants are not the only harbingers of the changing season. The squeaky bicycle-pump calls of great tits and the high-pitched quaver of a goldcrest drift down from the c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 11, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Claire Stares Tags: The Guardian Spring Biology Birds Rural affairs Features UK news Animal behaviour Environment Science Wildlife Source Type: news
Shunning – The Ultimate Rejection
In the past few months, the topic of shunning has presented itself to us one too many times to be ignored. And so we off-road from our usual topic of PTSD and delve into this pervasive social phenomenon. Why do people shun others? What do you do if you are shunned? Answers to these questions are in this column...read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - February 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosemary K.M. Sword Tags: Depression Happiness Self-Help Social Life Stress adulthood anxiety avoidance beeline centuries clue decades delve first instance first taste good relationship nathaniel hawthorne perpetrator psychological standpoint Source Type: news
Members to Receive National Medals of Science, Technology
President Obama will award the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Feb. 1 to several members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. The National Medal of Science honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation recognizes those who have made lasting contributions to America's competitiveness and quality of life and helped strengthen the nation's technological work force.Members to receive the National Medal of Science: Allen J...
Source: News from the National Academies - January 30, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Plantwatch: Hazel switches supposed to ward off the evil spirits
This has been a cruel winter. Snowdrops, daffodils and early Japanese cherry blossom all began to come out early in the mild spell over Christmas and New Year. There were even young leaves bursting out on hawthorn bushes. But just as it looked like an early spring was on the cards, winter returned with a vengeance and the big freeze put everything on hold.However, there are still signs of spring. Catkins are dangling off hazel trees, many of them hard and unripe but others have turned into lamb's tails. Those soft, yellow catkins that wiggle around in the breeze and shed their cargo of powdery pollen on the female flowers,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Paul Simons Tags: The Guardian Trees and forests Features Plants Environment Science Source Type: news
Unravelling the mysteries of the placebo response
Interesting work points the way to more rational medical research (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - January 23, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: Dr Isaac Jennings Edzard Ernst europe fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging Harvard Hawthorne effect international nocebo placebo randomised controlled trial RCT Ted Kaptchuk Source Type: news
