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Single Drug Shows Promise In Fighting All Cancers

by Eric Limer | 5:00 pm, March 27th

It generally pays to be careful when proclaiming that a new treatment “may put an end to cancer.” That being said, recent research shows that drugs that utilize the cancer-fighting technique of CD47-blocking will result in the shrinkage of primary tumors and could serve as a single treatment for all cancers. CD47-blocking has been testing as a treatment for lymphomas and leukemias, but new research has shown that it has vastly greater potential than originally thought. As a kicker, CD47-blocking doesn’t even kill cancer itself; it gets your body to do it.

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Pluto Could Be Hiding a Life-Supporting Ocean at Its Core

by Eric Limer | 1:00 pm, September 16th

While everyone is still excited about the potential habitablity of Super-Earth HD 85512 b, it’s worth noting that there still might be some potential for life in our own backyard. An article in New Scientist suggests that everyone’s favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, may be hiding some liquid water oceans under its icy coating.

How could Pluto possibly have liquid oceans so far away from the sun? Well, it may be packing some heat in its core. Guillaume Robuchon and Francis Nimmo from University of California, Santa Cruz suggest that Pluto very well may have liquid oceans if its core contains enough potassium and if its ice is appropriately sloshy.

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Amazon Reportedly Looking to Launch Netflix Style Service for Books

by Eric Limer | 11:12 am, September 12th

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is currently talking with a variety of book publishers in hopes of launching an eBook rental service in the same vein as Netflix. While book renting has been around as long as libraries have been, the prevalence of eBooks could, and probably will, permanently change the book rental landscape.

Considering the amount of control publishers have historically had over the publication and distribution of the books in their stables, it’s understandable that they might not be willing to surrender control to Amazon. It doesn’t help that Amazon is looking to distrubute eBooks of all things, a product many publishing companies are still wary of. As such, it’s reported that Amazon is prepared to offer publishers a sizable chunk of change if they agree to get involved in the program.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks The Onion Deserves A Pulitzer [Video]

by Erin Podolak | 11:00 am, June 25th

Famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has come out with a video in support of The Onion news network. Tyson is particularly proud of the way The Onion handled that whole Pluto debacle, and feels the publication deserves the highest honor in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize. Of course, Tyson’s video is as much a parody as The Onion itself.

(via Neil deGrasse Tyson)

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