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USC Research Team Demonstrates Rate and Direction of Axon Growth Can Be Controlled

USC College’s Samantha Butler and Team Show that the Rate and Direction of Axon Growth in the Spinal Cord Can Be Controlled

(LOS ANGELES) - Both the rate and direction of axon growth in the spinal cord can be controlled, according to new research by USC College’s Samantha Butler and her collaborators.

The study, “The Bone Morphogenetic Protein Roof Plate Chemorepellent Regulates the Rate of Commissural Axonal Growth,” was published online in the November 17 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Machismo or Madness? Magma Freaks Descend into Erupting Volcano

Magma men and the gates of hell...

(CHICAGO) - What do you do for entertainment? Kick back and watch a favorite movie? Drop in on a hot new dance club? Read a good book?

How boring! Instead of following the crowd, why not do something really entertaining—like rappelling into the steaming caldera of an erupting volcano? Too hot to handle? Not for these guys…

Science Fiction is the most Powerful and Imaginative Mode of Writing: Adam Roberts

Science fiction, history; and the path of success in the science fiction genre.

(TEHRAN) - Adam Roberts is a British academician, literary critic and science fiction writer.

Marijuana, Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Drugs, Illicit Drugs, Aspirin and other Lethal Substances

Why the government and their paid stooges and oafs continue to bleet about the DANGERS of Pot or MARIHUANA as they continue to blather is beyond cogent understanding.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - You may consider this to be a wild title, so do I. The garbage coming from the U.S. Governments National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) seems to put Marijuana at the top of dangerous/lethal drugs.

I would call this humorous if it weren’t so foolish.

Climate Refugees and 21st Century Migration

Representatives from numerous NGO's brainstormed solutions to the myriad problems confronting the world's more than 200 million international migrants.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Are people who move because of climate change and/or extreme weather events migrants or refugees? Do older methods of farming and home-building hold key answers to the environmental challenges of the 21st century?

These were among the questions addressed by international delegates meeting this week for the 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

A Good Science Fiction Book Expands the Mind: Tobias Buckell

(TEHRAN) - Born in Grenada in the Caribbean, Tobias Buckell is a New York Times Best-Seller science fiction and speculative fiction author. Having lived in Ohio since 1995, Buckell started submitting his writings to magazines and newspapers since he was in high school.

He sold his first short story in an early age and continued selling stories to the American magazines since then.

What is `Diminished Reality` Technology?

Is reality catching up with Michael Crichton's fertile imagination?

(CHICAGO) - The late author, Michael Crichton, often wrote about how science and technology would affect culture and humans in his novels.

In his story "Rising Sun" the late novelist foresaw the technology of software manipulation of digital video records.

Cambridge Laboratory Discovers Cure for the Common Cold

Clinical trials could begin in as little as two years.

(CHICAGO) - An age-old dream of the human race may have finally been realized. Painstaking research conducted by brilliant researchers at the Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology proved that the body's own immune system has the ability to destroy the cold virus within human cells.

Thought by most medical researchers to be highly unlikely, the scientific investigation revealed that indeed, the body can kill the virus responsible for causing millions to suffer every year.

Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects

New facts on one of America's most dangerous companies.

(FRANKFURT, Germany) - A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is toxic and a danger to human as well as animal organisms.

The latest scientific research shows that Monsanto and the GMO agribusiness industry have systematically lied about the safety of their Roundup.

`Apocalypse Zombies` a Possibility According to Scientist

Zombies lumbering up and down city streets are only found in lurid Hollywood horror flicks, right?

(CHICAGO) - A virulent rabies-influenza viral hybrid could lead to masses of infected victims turning into veritable zombies.

The hapless former humans would exhibit all the classic features of the horror movies...