Science IS news. How do ya think we would be able to put a man in space or develop new pharmaceuticals or dismantle neck bombs. One scientific discovery at a time.  View

This isn't news. He made similar comments at TED in 2006 and in his book Ending Aging from 2007. It also isn't science, by the way. Any scientist can claim anything is true as an individual. Scientists are smart people, but we should still take their more extreme claims with a pinch of salt. Only when the scientific claims are made in the context of a peer-reviewed journal is it real science which is highly reliable. (But even in this case, journalists often exaggerate or fabricate what the journal actually says - check the source itself!)  View

Very interesting news. Maybe this will be viable with cancer as well. Attack the cancerous cells with this technology, leaving the healthy cells alone. That by itself would keep even terminal patients alive longer. Of course maybe we wouldn't see as many patients designated as terminal. Science is wonderful.  View

Of course O'Reilly was uncomfortable. He's used to the 'selective gene pool' over at Fox News and would have been way out of his intellectual comfort level interviewing Obama. Same when BO was on the Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart. Talk about a cerebral mismatch... The man used to host a tabloid show called, 'Inside Edition'. He ranted about the moon & tidal influences showing he doesn't even understand 4th grade science. So really, my expectations are never too high w/ him.  View

Love science !!! This is awesome news !!  View

Spencer Ackerman, Michael Tomasky, Thomas Schaller & Jonathan Stein Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage. In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.” Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.” “Richard Kim got this right above: ‘a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.’ He’s dead on,” Tomasky continued. “We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.” (In an interview Monday, Tomasky defended his position, calling the ABC debate an example of shoddy journalism.) Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, “why don’t we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?” Schaller proposed coordinating a “smart statement expressing disgust” at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama. “It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort,” Schaller wrote. Tomasky approved. “YES. A thousand times yes,” he exclaimed. The members began collaborating on their open letter. Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones rejected an early draft, saying, “I’d say too short. In my opinion, it doesn’t go far enough in highlighting the inanity of some of [Gibson's] and [Stephanopoulos’s] questions. And it doesn’t point out their factual inaccuracies …Our friends at Media Matters probably have tons of experience with this sort of thing, if we want their input.” Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uWsSapXe  View

The reason people get shot is because the bad guys don't care about laws (including gun laws). Inmates have said that laws, police, or threat of jail are no deterrents - but not knowing if a potential victim is armed or not is. Most anti-gun folks base their beliefs on distorted information from the news media, or on personal fears, rarely on sound science. For the first 50 years of my life, I too believed what I was being fed by the media and anti-gun groups. Then I decided to research the subject myself and have done a 180. I suggest others do the same!  View

The news should read "Abortion doctor Aborted" Do you not see the double standard here.A doctor can take the life of a human being"The Fetus"which has a brain,a beating heart, a soul,and it's called an abortion and is legal.On the other hand a man takes the life of "the abortion doctor"which has a brain, a beating heart, a soul, and it's called a murder and is illegal.This is not rocket science, it's common sense.We are guilty of projecting a doulbe standard.Also if a drunk driver hits a car with a women that is with child and she dies, he is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide.One for the mother and one for the unborn child the "Fetus"what about that,it's a human being according to this law?  View

a good story, but would a technology category work on this site at all? i would think most news sources would report science and technology identically.. "breakthrough in cold fusion" would get the same press over and over. just a thought.  View