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BPA May Make Breast Cancer Cells Resistant To Treatment
A new study from Duke University suggests a chemical found in many plastics can make breast cancer cells resistant to treatment.
The report discusses the effects of BPA on Inflammatory Breast Cancer cells. It's a type of cancer found in 1-5 percent of breast cancer cases. Researchers suggest that the chemical neutralizes the effects of prescription drugs meant to keep the cancerous cell from growing.
Co-author Scott Sauer says it was important to look at the drug resistance factor, not just how the BPA interacted with the cancer itself.
"People in the field of BPA research don't think about that particular thing," he said. "They're only thinking about making cancers more aggressive, not necessarily how they will respond to treatment because of exposure."
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http://wunc.org/post/bpa-may-make-breast-cancer-cells-resistant-treatment
Only if we get another Republican dimwit as President, Crashcart.
Dick Cheney predicts 'far deadlier' attack against U.S. in next decade
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CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he expects another terrorist attack on U.S. soil within the next 10 years.
"I think there will be another attack, and next time I think it's likely to be far deadlier than the last one," he said on the conservative Hugh Hewitt radio program when asked if the United States could get through another decade without another "massive attack on the homeland."
Cheney continued: "You can imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container and drive it down the beltway outside Washington, D.C."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/24/cheney-predicts-far-deadlier-attack-against-u-s-in-next-decade/
Only in your dreams, asshole.
Titan May be Older than Saturn, a New Study Suggests
It’s well accepted that moons form after planets. In fact, only a few months ago, astronomers spotted a new moon forming deep within Saturn’s rings, 4.5 billion years after the planet initially formed.
But new research suggests Saturn’s icy moon Titan — famous for its rivers and lakes of liquid methane — may have formed before its parent planet, contradicting the theory that Titan formed within the warm disk surrounding an infant Saturn.
A combined NASA and ESA-funded study has found firm evidence that the nitrogen in Titan’s atmosphere originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud — a spherical shell of icy particles that enshrouds the Solar System.
The hint comes in the form of a ratio. All elements have a certain number of known isotopes — variants of that element with the same number of protons that differ in their number of neutrons. The ratio of one isotope to another isotope is a crucial diagnostic tool.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/112789/titan-may-be-older-than-saturn-a-new-study-suggests/#ixzz35bb2kRfK
Chris Christie faces yet another Port Authority scandal
By Steve Benen
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) recently declared that he’s done with his multiple ongoing scandals. The obvious follow-up question, of course, is whether Christie’s scandals are done with him.
At issue is whether the Christie administration requested funds from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey – which were supposed to be used to fund a rail tunnel under the Hudson River – to go toward fixing up the Pulaski Skyway three years ago, both the Times and NBC News reported. The Times noted that the skyway was outside the purview of the Port Authority, since it is operated by the state of New Jersey.
As msnbc reported in January, Christie’s cancellation of the Hudson tunnel project sparked controversy in the state. It also freed up $1.8 billion from the Port Authority, which was used to fix up the skyway and other roads in New Jersey.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/chris-christie-faces-yet-another-port-authority-scandal
Military's pricey F-35 fighter jet catches fire during takeoff in Florida
A fire broke out on a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after an attempted takeoff at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
The radar-evading, supersonic fighter jet, a nearly $400-billion weapons program under development for more than a decade, experienced the emergency on the ground Monday at 7:15 a.m. Pacific time.
The aircraft was preparing to take off on a training mission, but aborted due to flames that appeared in the back end of the aircraft. Emergency responders then moved in and extinguished the fire with foam, according to an Air Force statement.
The pilot left the aircraft uninjured, officials said.
It’s the latest setback for the F-35 program, which is billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. The per-plane cost estimates have gone from $78 million in 2001 to $135 million today, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/aerospace/la-fi-f35-fighter-jet-fire-20140623-story.html
Should the Higgs boson have caused our universe to collapse? Findings puzzle cosmologists
British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the Universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) will present the new research on 24 June at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth.
After the Universe began in the Big Bang, it is thought to have gone through a short period of rapid expansion known as 'cosmic inflation'. Although the details of this process are not yet fully understood, cosmologists have been able to make predictions of how this would affect the Universe we see today.
In March 2014, researchers from the BICEP2 collaboration claimed to have detected one of these predicted effects. If true, their results are a major advance in our understanding of cosmology and a confirmation of the inflation theory, but they have proven controversial and are not yet fully accepted by cosmologists.
In the new research, scientists from KCL have investigated what the BICEP2 observations mean for the stability of the Universe. To do this, they combined the results with recent advances in particle physics. The detection of the Higgs boson by the Large Hadron Collider was announced in July 2012; since then, much has been learnt about its properties.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624093246.htm
New evidence bolsters Higgs boson discovery: Confirmation of particle responsible for mass
If evidence of the Higgs boson revealed two years ago was the smoking gun, particle physicists at Rice University and their colleagues have now found a few of the bullets.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) published research in Nature Physics this week that details evidence of the direct decay of the Higgs boson to fermions, among the particles anticipated by the Standard Model of physics.
The finding fits what researchers expected to see amid the massive amount of data provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The world's largest collider smashed protons together in hope that the encounter would produce the short-lived Higgs boson, leaving signs of its decay in the traces recorded by experiments designed and built at Rice and elsewhere.
Authors of the paper by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration include Rice researchers Paul Padley, a professor of physics and astronomy, and Karl Ecklund, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
"In July 2012, we knew we had discovered some sort of boson, and it looked a lot like it was a Higgs boson," Padley said. "To firmly establish it's the Standard Model Higgs boson, there are a number of checks we have to do. This paper represents one of these fundamental checks."
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623121004.htm
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