New research indicates that aging, at least in mice, is triggered by the buildup of mutated DNA in cells’ mitochondria. This may give us a target for true anti-aging drugs. Did I mention my 46th birthday is coming up? Faster, please!
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You won’t if we’re using one of these.
Worst news lead I’ve seen in a while…
This has got to be the worst example of paint-by-numbers newswriting I’ve seen in, if not forever, at least a good long while–since, maybe, journalism school? “It began like any other morning on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, that was, until a wall came tumbling down onto Broadway.” A total waste of pixels (online version) or …
Synthetic society
Scientists are working to create a virtual world in which computer-generated individual agents will, they hope, build a society from scratch–maybe even create their own language. They’re just missing one bet, as far as I can see: they should put the whole thing on TV. Instead of just a reality show, it would be a …
The first "Tatooine Planet" discovered
By which the discoverer means, a planet with more than one sun: in this case, three. It’s the size of Jupiter and orbits its main sun, a star much like our own, in just three and a half days, which means its very, very close, which means…well, in short, you thought Tatooine looke inhospitable, you …
Bendable electronic color paper
If that’s not a headline that would have made no sense at all just a few years ago, I don’t know what one would be. Technovelgy.com has the goods. Everyone repeat after me: “Hey hey, ho ho, those dead-tree books have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho, those dead-tree books have got to go…”
Vital research!
Check out the fascinating research currently underway in the burgeoning (but extremely relaxed) field of fatigued feline functionality. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
Arrr, matey!
Be this wreckage that of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge? ‘Tis looking most promising, most promising indeed.
More on tabletop fusion
Purdue University researchers have new evidence that confirms previous findings of thermonuclear reactions in a tabletop apparatus. This could be big…er, small.
"The She Eagle’s Vengeance"
While ego-Googling (or, actually, Yahooing) images earlier today, I came across this. Some day, I’m going to either begin collecting the previous Edward Willett’s books, or else writing new stories to go with all his great titles. I mean, who doesn’t want to read a story called “Alone on the Plains: or, The She Eagle’s …
The unabridged Shakespeare
Wish I could be there for this: “The Royal Shakespeare Company in Britain will embark on a year-long project to stage every play, sonnet and poem ever written by William Shakespeare.”
Pick a study, any study…
…and you’re likely to find another study that refines or contradicts it. So says (what else?) a new study. The moral? Don’t put all your eggs (whether you think they’re bad for you or good for you, high in cholesterol or a great source of protein) in one study’s basket…even if it’s made out of …
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