Blacks win fewer health research grants in U.S.

Black researchers are significantly less likely to win grant funding from the National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according to a study published Thursday, and the director of the U.S. agency says it will take action to address the potential for "insidious bias" in the review process. 

An NIH-backed study, published in the journal Science, found a 10 percentage point difference in the number of grants awarded to black researchers compared with white researchers with similar credentials.  - msnbc.com

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• Black Researchers Fall Behind In Obtaining Grants | The Atlanta Post

Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its biggest deal, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.
Motorola shareholders will get $40 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement today. That’s 63 percent more than Motorola Mobility’s closing price on the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 12. Both boards have approved the takeover.  - Bloomberg

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Cern scientists suspect glimpse of Higgs boson (GOD PARTICLE)

Scientists may have caught their first glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to the basic building blocks of nature.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, announced the findings at a conference on Friday.

The world's most powerful atom smasher hunts for signs of new physics by slamming subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in an 18-mile round tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.  | The Guardian

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• Physicists closing in on ‘God particle’ | The Raw Story
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GOD PARTICLE Within Reach!?! !BREAKING NEWS!!!

Japanese scientists develop robotic exoskeleton

A disabled Japanese man on Friday embarked on an ambitious trip that will take him to a mediaeval French World Heritage site with the help of a cutting-edge robotic suit.
Seiji Uchida, 49, who lost the ability to walk in a car accident 28 years ago, said his trip to the picturesque abbey of Mont Saint Michel, set on a rocky islet in Normandy, will be only the beginning of his dream.  | The Raw Story

Genetic Modification Gone Wild: 10 Signs That Our World May Be Destined To Resemble A Really Bad Science Fiction Movie

Did you know that today scientists are actually producing mice that tweet like birds, cats that glow in the dark, "monster salmon", "spider goats", cow/human hybrids, pig/human hybrids and even mouse/human hybrids?  The very definition of life on earth is changing right before our eyes.  Many scientists believe that genetic modification holds the key to feeding the entire planet and healing all of our diseases, but others are warning that genetic modification could literally transform our environment into a desolate wasteland and cause our world to resemble a really bad science fiction movie.  For decades, scientists around the globe have been fooling around with DNA and have been transplanting genes from one species to another.  But now technology has advanced so dramatically that just about the only thing limiting scientists are their imaginations.  Read more...


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Icann increases web domain suffixes (Domain Names)

A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.  BBC News

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Scientists Successfully Implant Chip That Controls The Brain

In a scene right out of a George Orwell novel, a team of scientists working in the fields of “neural engineering” and “Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems” have successfully created a chip that controls the brain and can be used as a storage device for long-term memories. In studies the scientists have been able to record, download and transfer memories into other hosts with the same chip implanted.  Infowars via Activist Post

Human milk from cows? Scientists make it happen (but should they?)

Chinese scientists genetically produced a herd of 300 of these human milk-producing cows, and are excited by their early findings.


"The genetically modified cow milk is 80 percent the same as human breast milk," lead researcher Dr. Li Ning, professor at China Agricultural University, told Reuters.  - CBS News

Could prenatal DNA testing open Pandora's box?

Imagine being pregnant and taking a simple blood test that lays bare the DNA of your fetus. And suppose that DNA could reveal not only medical conditions like Down syndrome, but also things like eye color and height. And the risk for developing depression or Alzheimer's disease. And the chances of being gay.

So far that's still science fiction. But scientists have been taking some baby steps in that direction. And some ethics experts say it's time to start talking now about what that could mean for parents and society.  - Yahoo! News

Major Cyber Attack Is Act of War: Pentagon Report

The Pentagon has adopted a new strategy that will classify major cyber attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation, the Wall Street Journal reported on May 31.

The newspaper said the Pentagon plans to unveil its first-ever strategy regarding cyber warfare next month, in part as a warning to foes that may try to sabotage the country's electricity grid, subways or pipelines.  - Defense News

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Life-like robot tests boundaries

Should robots be allowed to fire people or read classroom stories to kids? That's what Danish psychologist Henrik Schrafe is trying to find out with the help of a robot that looks just like him. CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports.

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