Friday, April 03, 2009

Science stuff below the fold

Baking tumors with gold nanospheres..

Once the nanospheres attach to cancer cells (by using antibodies)... (they) respond to a narrow range of infrared light by becoming hot. When the laser is shined onto the skin, the nanospheres heat up to searing temperatures and essentially bake the cancer cells to death.

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More girls than boys are born in tropical countries?
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Fight breaks out when organs taken from brain dead boy...

problem? Only one day between accident and taking the organs. How did they diagnose brain death?

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There's a link between dark matter and dark energy



Does dark matter exist, or do we just need to redefine gravity?

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