Recent posts by Rick Pantaleo:
Should Sugar be a Controlled Substance?
If you love your cookies and candy and can’t go a day without your favorite soda or daily ice cream cone, then a new warning about the dangers of sugar is bound to leave a bitter taste in your mouth. California researchers are calling for sugar to be treated like a controlled substance – similar […]
Gene Therapy Treatment Reverses Vision Loss
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania may have found a way to prevent, and even reverse, a serious inherited eye disease which leads to blindness. The disease, called X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa (XLRP), causes early, severe and progressive vision loss. It is one of the most common inherited forms of retinal degeneration in people. Peoples with […]
Science Scanner: Fear of Terrorists Keeps Man-made Avian Flu Under Wraps
In December, the U.S. government asked scientists working on a man-made version of the avian flu virus to withhold certain details of their studies out of concern terrorists might use the information to manufacture and spread the dangerous virus, causing a worldwide pandemic. At the time of the request by the U.S. National Science Advisory […]
NASA Gears Up for Intensified Solar Activity
Last week, a massive solar flare on the sun produced one of the strongest radiation storms Earth has experienced since May 2005. As a result, airlines were forced to reroute some flights that usually cross over the Polar regions. Many parts of the world, which usually can’t see the aurorae produced over the North and […]
Stroke, Heart Attack Risk Greater Than Thought
If you think the odds of having a heart attack or stroke in your lifetime are low, you could be kidding yourself. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals some sobering statistics. Even if you are at low risk of having a cardiac incident in the short term, having one or […]
Science Scanner: Dispute Over Life on Venus
A renowned Russian astronomer drew lots of attention after claiming there is life on Venus. Leonid Ksanfomaliti, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, analyzed photos made by Venera-13, a Soviet-era space probe that explored Venus. According to Ksanfomaliti, the photos showed objects – which looked like a disk, black flap and scorpion – that appeared […]
Effects of Solar Radiation Storm Headed for Earth
The sun is producing the strongest solar radiation storm since May 2005, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. NASA says it’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed the huge M8.7-class solar flare that erupted late on Sunday, Jan. 22 and peaked today, Jan. 23 at around 0400 UTC. Now heading for Earth, the Coronal Mass […]
Scientists Sucessfully Hide Moment in Time
Scientists have managed to create a hole in time, making it appear as if an event never happened at all. It’s not quite Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility, but researchers at Cornell University demonstrated time cloaking was possible, if only for a fraction of a second. They managed the feat by creating what they call […]
Science Scanner: Did US Radar Bring Down Russian Probe?
Did powerful radar signals from the United States bring down a Russian Mars moon probe? Russian scientists will examine whether a U.S. radar station transmitted radar signals which inadvertently interfered with the Phobos-Ground probe that recently fell back to Earth. Experts say the assertion is far-fetched. NASA says the military radar equipment in question wasn’t […]