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  • Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria

    In a surprising discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. TB is caused by infection with the bacterium M. ...

  • Braggs Pie Factory Transforms Its Gallery Space and Brings Back the Pie

    At long last, there's pie again at Bragg's Pie Factory. A new vegan cafe has opened in the very spot out of which the Bragg family originally sold cakes and pies in the '40s and ...

  • Topless protest at church after historians suicide

    Topless protest at church A Femen activist protested in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Wednesday, one day after far-right historian Dominique Venner committed suicide inside. Venner shot himself at the altar in front of around 1,500 visitors. Venner condemned both same-sex marriage and Islamist influence in France in writings before his death. The now infamous topless protesters released ...

  • Vancouver guitar maker ramps up after space station video

    For Larrive Guitars, the publicity was quite literally out of this world, and the dollar value from it continues to add up.Images of Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield playing its Vancouver-made Parlor guitar sparked enough interest for the company to put the model back into production for a limited edition. The company has $100,000 in orders already for the commemorative model, which ...

  • Lessons From Joplin’s Tornado Recovery Effort

    The Monday tornado that leveled a 20-mile stretch south of Oklahoma City, with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, brings back harrowing memories of the deadly tornado that ripped apart Joplin, Missouri, exactly two years ago ...


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Sin City [Blu-Ray]

Sin City [Blu-Ray]

Sin City is a brilliant paradox: It looks like nothing youve ever seen before, but its assembled out of parts so familiar they are clichs. The foreboding darkness and jagged shadows of film noir, the indestructible hero of comic books, the corrupt police officers and vicious crimina ... ...

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  • Some 100 Species of Fungus Live on Our Feet

    There's a fungus among us --a hundred different species in fact--and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the ...

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day Fiery Ribbons in Orion

    In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

  • Merger of ancient galaxies could explain the origin of today’s giants

    The elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Observation of a merger between two galaxies early in the life of the Universe could explain the origin of large elliptical ...

  • Russia’s New Reusable Spacecraft Good for up to 5 Flights

    TOMSK, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s new reusable spacecraft that is being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said on Wednesday. The spacecraft’s technical design has been finalized but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said on the ...

  • Earths tides are shoving the moon away faster

    EARTH is shoving the moon away faster now than it has done for most of the past 50 million years, says a new model for the way tides influence the lunar orbit. The result helps solve a mystery concerning the moon's age that has long vexed ...

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